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wasted_in_time@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Generally some good advice is that Balatro is a math game first and foremost so you want to focus on things that raise your score the quickest. So adding chips is ok, adding multiplier is better, and multiplying your total is the best.

  For example let’s say you are playing straights and you have a 10-6 with level 3 straights. So you’d have:

  10+9+8+7+6=40 (40+90)x10=1300

  So let’s compare how jokers impact that score:

  Devious joker: +100 chips if you have a straight

  (40+90+100)x10=2300

  Crazy joker: +12 mult if you have a straight

  (40+90)x(10+12)=2860

  The order: x3 mult if you have a straight

  (40+90)x(10x3)=3900

  You can see those are very big differences! It’s also helpful to pay attention to the order of your cards. Generally Balatro cards are scored left to right. The most important thing is to take any card that multiplies any part of your score on the right so you can add as much to the score as possible, then you multiply that number

  So in short: multiplier jokers are best, additive multiplier jokers are good, additive chip jokers are ok, and pay attention to the order of your jokers/played cards

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  • sushibowl@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is basically correct but i would add sometimes it’s better to add chips than to add mult. For example, if your score is something like:

    10 x 50 = 500
    

    Adding +50 mult here would give you 10x100=1000 points. Adding +50 chips will give you 60x50=3000 points.

    Adding to the lowest of the two numbers improves your score the most. Especially early game, mult is much lower than chips, so you want to improve mult. However once you have some good mult jokers improving chips becomes important. Especially in high card based decks, where you get very few chips from your hand.

    If the multiplier jokers come in, the picture can change again. It makes adding mult more valuable because the addition will be multiplied.

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  • BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One thing to watch out for though, is that if you focus exclusively on mult, eventually the scale tips and chips become more valuable.

    You’re always ultimately doing c * m, chips times mult, right? Increasing c by 1 increases your total by…

    (c+1)*m - (c*m) = (c + 1 - c) * m = m

    And vice versa for increasing m by 1. So, whichever is higher - your total mult or total chips - you should increase the other one. Usually this means increase mult, but building a bit multiplier can quickly make it outpace your chips for some hands.

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  some guides :

  lemmy.world/post/14566253?scrollToComments=true

  lemm.ee/post/30072319

  lemm.ee/post/32741928

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  • Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thanks for this! Saving and checking them but… I’m more a “Look at me playing a game and tell me what I did wrong at the end” kind of player

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    • calabast@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I was going to say “ahh, too bad the Internet isn’t really helpful for that method of learning”, but with AI who knows, maybe that’ll be something your computer can do before too long

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      • Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I don’t really understand your comment - sorry! - but I’ve played some games with the plasma deck and I still have to understand how to play exactly with it, I do good-ish at first but after a few rounds/first boss I do so little numbers and I can’t win, having someone watching what I do wrong and telling me would be great

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    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Maybe experiment a bit more. That way, you can deduce yousrelf what works and what doesn’t.

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      • Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The problem is, like I said in another comment, is I can’t understand exactly how to play the plasma deck but I’ll keep trying!

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• Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How many hours in? Just curious, I’m bad at it but I got my first win ~16 hours in, are you doing something wrong?

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  • wasted_in_time@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    22.9 hours in…I’ve gotten close, but no cigar.

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• RincewindThreepwood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  lol. I feel you! My max Ante was 7. Everything after that seems impossible :D

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The most-satisfying part is when you stumble onto the right Joker combination and realize, “Oh snap, I think this is the one.”

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    • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Conversely the worst is when that happens and a bad boss blind screws your run

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      • RincewindThreepwood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The worst one I think is the one where you can only play one hand. I hate that one, because in most cases it’s game over for me 😆

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• Bluewall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How long have you been trying.

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• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Balatro University has some good guides if you’re looking to improve.

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• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I believe in you!

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