smoobles posted:

it has a 1 in 4 chance of being released today!

thehoodie posted:

I just unlocked that challenge and came here to ask how tf that is even possible. How!?

Chamale posted:

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

As I've been learning more and more about this game, I actually only recently started looking into skip blind bonuses and oh my god, I sort of wish I hadn't. Full disclosure, I've beaten about 5-6 decks now without having even glanced at the skip option.

Sure, they're great, but I'm reminded of something almost unrelated; years ago, when I was working a dead-end job at a call centre, we had an 'Early Release' book that you could sign during your shift. What would happen would be that, since our company couldn't detect rises and falls in call numbers, they'd start letting people go earlier than the end of their shift if it seemed like there was a massive downturn in calls, and they'd do this by going through the names that were put into the Early Release book. Every shift, there was that temptation to sign it, because getting to leave early was great, but the major caveat was that you wouldn't get paid if you left (though you'd obviously get paid for the time you were actually there).

This is me with the skip blind bonuses. I mean, some are ones that I now almost always go for (free rare joker!), but of course, not playing the hands, I'm missing out on money and any other sort of possible upgrading that might happen during the hand.

Do I skip? Should I skip? What if I skip too much? Aaaaaaaahhhhh.

Mordiceius posted:

A question about skipping blinds - the Red Stake is no money on Small Blinds. Obviously, with later blinds it would be foolish to skip because you're still collecting interest. But for the first small blind of the game, when you don't have enough money to collect interest nor do you have enough money to really do much at the store, is it worth it to skip the very first small blind of the game?

Gangringo posted:

I was cruising to a victory on orange stake black deck with a madness and two eternal brainstorms, and I added an eternal swashbuckler but didn't think about placement.

If I'd just slid the madness over to the left the total would have been in the tens of millions.

Tiny Myers posted:

I think these two are an underrated couple. (Certificate/Hologram)

Power of Pecota posted:

The problem is getting an all Jack deck

ChrisBTY posted:

I've seen the kind of hands that you need to get that high and I have no idea how you craft them in a game with as much variation as Balatro.

oddium posted:

i thought the joke was it expired on the 24th month, some sort of wacky clown calendar

e: although i guess having the day before the month is absurd enough

Gangringo posted:

Welp.

Power of Pecota posted:

If you want to try the Anaglyph thing then go for it, but I think in practice it's a lot shittier than it sounds on paper. There'll be a surprising amount of runs where you never get a negative tag and were effectively just playing a weaker deck

StrixNebulosa posted:

If you replace fandom with antifandom it reroutes you to a website that doesn't suck complete poo poo, ala: https://balatrogame.antifandom.com/wiki/Balatro

super fart shooter posted:

Is there a specific meaning to when the chips/mult counters are on fire? I know it means you’re at pretty high numbers for your ante or whatever, but does it actually convey any usable information?

euphronius posted:

I wish the random deck were more random . Or more wacky I guess. I suppose that’s how numbers work

Ineffiable posted:

I do not like this joker less challenge.