I CANT STOP PLAYING FULL HOUSE
I CANT WIN

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

what is the best joker combo/strat

Full house is the poor man's two pair

>>716456334 (OP)
2012 was 4 years ago

just play high card

>Pick a random hand to start levelling and cross your fingers it doesn't hit a concrete wall down the line
>Play it safe and level two pair and hope you get enough mult to carry it late game
>Or get Burnt Joker and hard pivot into high card
There are your options. Not for you specifically but just as a whole, that's the entire game.

>>716456392
photochad high card, transition to baron/mime if possible

If anyone here is struggling here are some relatively very high value common cards that can get your through early-mid.

>>716456392
Aside from the King high card shit. Probably Hanging+Photo

>>716456334 (OP)
this game came and went so hard. like its insane to me that so many people talked about balantro then two months later its forgotten. this isn't even flavor of the month, this is like scam of the week lol.

>give up trying to play good hands
>focus entirely on High Card
>get highest scoring run
Is this the actual joke?

>>716456392
Five of a kinds, plus every mult-mult card. Only way I could get through golds. Though hologram+DNA+blueprint is a close second. (Though even then your goal is to get flush fives with the best card)

>>716458443
>13 thousand people playing right now for hours

>>716458443
>this game came and went so hard
please stop demonstrating how fully retarded you are

worst fucking joker coming through

>>716459875
Will never work for purple and up. Even above green you're going to need a lot of luck. Definitely works below green though

>>716460315
plasma + stone joker makes it fun

>>716460315
Seems pretty indisputable tbqh

>>716460315
>blue joker
>stone joker
>drive license
>Supernova
>Plays only Poker
>Profits

>>716458346
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that all my top jokers are common ones that are almost always useful in early game.

>>716456334 (OP)
>pixel shit
>rng gameplay
>rogueslop

3/4 of indie slop red flags.

>>716459875
high card is the highroller run because you have a full hand to discard and fish for seals, gold cards and activate money jokers.
It's the meta. red seal metal cards deck win 8 antes easy.

>>716458346
>>716460728

>>716456334 (OP)
you are not worth it cause you are ugly and use words asums to be better then every and you are not worth it cause you are ugly and and not worth it also you are a ugly ugly ass hole that uses words asums to be better then every body and don’t want people to know so fuck off you ugly worth less nasty you a you ugly worth less nasty bitch fuck off you u fuc fuck off you ugly fucken fucken freak and you lie about that too and you lie about that too too

>>716456334 (OP)
should get balatro for steam? i bought for my phone and can play on my crappy chromebook, but feel the itch to get it for my steam account.

>>716456408
What fucking calendar do you use where years have 39 months?

>>716461010
I got it for Steam first but then couldn't resist the idea of being able to play for it, making Balatro the first and only mobile game I have ever downloaded for my phone. It's that good. And it took surprisingly little time for my mobile profile to catch up with my Steam profile. What sucks is that I have yet to get a 100M hand on either. 7M on Steam, 93M on mobile. Never gonna get Stuntman.

?

>>716460734
You got some weirdly high standards for a playing cards game.

>>716461265
Nope!

>>716456334 (OP)
The Bazaar >>>> balatroon
enjoy your low iq game for troons :)

>>716460728
>fortune teller
>useful
>in early game
what game are you playing? cause that's not how balatro works.
>throwback is in there
oh nvm lmao

>Scary Face + Smiley Face

>still can't beat the game even once
why do I even bother...

I have 62 hours on this game, how about you bros?

>>716463351
471.3

>>716463351
229
I want to put C++ to bed before August

>>716462229
>So this side?
>HARVEY FACE...
>And this side?
>SCARY FACE...
>And when I look straight ahead?
>TWO-FACE!
>See that's good! Now--
>WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, WITH HARVEY FACE AND SCARY FACE?

>>716460132
>>716460268
get mad faggots. no one talks about balatro. this is the first thread in about the game in over a month. its not a negative thing that this game pretty much followed the same trend as miside. its just an observation I've made.

>>716465348
based observation fag recognizing the indie slop that balatro and miside is

>>716465348
dont worry anon this game wont clog up the catalogue anytime soon, you'll still be able to enjoy your twittercap threads

>>716465348
balatro is not a narrative-driven game. nor there exist any interesting opinions that could be shared about it. it's basically solved, unless you're utterly retarded. and, it being extremely normie-frinedly, 4chan is the last place you should look in for people to talk about it.
>an observation I've made.
try making an observation about a countless number of other games, indie or not, that don't get a thread, ever.

if localthunk ever chooses to roll out the supposed content update, the threads will resume

>>716456334 (OP)
>Starts to play Balatro
>2 threads about it within the week on /v/
Every single time

>>716468668
look behind you.

I was like a hundred chips away from dying earlier. finally got shoot the moon to work.

>>716470525
you can rearrange your queens so that the steel ones activate later and get more score

>>716461265
Beyond worthless. 1/4 is a lie. This is 1/100.

>>716470964
yeah I was doing that when I needed it earlier but at some point I could beat the blinds easily without it

After 200 hours of Balatro I finally hit the big leagues. Highest scoring hand was 500 quintillion and made it to ante 15 before my luck running out. Just couldn't draw enough glass red emblem queens.

>Get Blueprint on first round
>Lose later because couldn't get a mult card

full house is terrible because its extremely unlikely compared to everything else

>>716458163
>looksinside
>looksinside
>looksinside

>>716456392

Photochad

>>716456392
Vagabond/Credit Card

>>716460360
>Will never work for purple and up.

High Card gets stronger the higher your stake since it's the most reliable hand, contributes to the best scaling strategies, and is the best hand to use with PhotoChad, Burglar, Card Sharp etc.

>>716456334 (OP)
How do you niggers get so good at this game? 90% of my runs end in the 2 or 3rd ante, and the other 10% I get so OP that it stops being fun. I feel like if I dont get good jokers at the beginning there is no point.

>>716461265
>It's a Polychrome Gros Michel, Egg, Popcorn, Ice Cream, Turtle Bean, Invisible Joker, Diet Cola episode

>>716456392

>>716456392
For consistently winning high stake runs it's all about a getting a good scaling joker early. Pairs are really strong and consistent and I think they are underrated, same with two pairs. I know straights are strong but I've lost too many runs to bad rng and I rarely go for them unless I'm on abandoned deck or something. I've found flushes to actually be way more consistent since you just wait until the 1st boss blind which disables a suit and then focus on that suit entirely.

>>716461265
Sending this card straight to hell

>>716456408
4 leap years ago
unironically

>>716460315
Stone cards are unfairly maligned. I agree they're useless if you're playing a 5 card hand but if you aren't then they're great to have. For a high card build you'd be retarded not to take this.

>>716460360
I can't imagine being so confidently wrong lmao. High card works just fine with the right jokers at any stake.

How are wild cards and Blue Stake (-1 discard) will get balanced? Localthunk dev said those were the focal points of the new update plus 1 (one) new joker

>>716477880
Wilds need more payoff jokers than just Flower Pot and Ancient Joker. You could also have Lovers make 2 wild cards. I thought it would be too good compared to World/etc, but cards changed with World can still be enhanced while Wilds takes up a slot that could be gold/lucky.

>>716462229
>Blocks your path

>>716463351
582 on Steam. Can't figure out my mobile stats cos I don't track it but must be at least 200 on there.

>>716477408
get lucky and learn how to win early antes while being frugal
>>716477714
I feel like straights are kind of bad because if you're in a position where you need to play more than one to win a blind you're most likely just fucked, and unless you somehow get straight flushes then they are pretty bad past ante 8 too.

>>716478529
Yeah straight flushes are sadly pretty much useless for ante 8 runs. Even super high scoring runs just use high cards anyway, hopefully that'll be addressed in the next patch a bit.

I understand the argument about straights having fantastic scaling which they do, but unless you have shortcut it's just not worth getting to ante 8 and then losing cos you couldn't draw that second straight even when you've built your whole deck around it.

>>716461265
Pure scam, the truth is even the polychrome highroll ultimately amounts to nothing

>>716478052
Nah Lovers also have the drawback to be 4x as likely to be disabled by a boss blind

>>716478128
>ruins the game in your path

>>716478529
I guess the advantage of Straights is that they come online out of the box without needing to fiddle with deckfixing tarots

>anaglyph deck
>get triboulet early on
>go for negatives, then do it again
>end up with negative splash, negative burnt joker, negative midas mask, negative hanging chad
>also got a photograph
Luckiest moment of my life. I coasted through to ante 12, then I forgot to put a king before an ace.

>>716461265

>>716456334 (OP)
I have been stuck on gold stake for over 2 months without a single win besides gold deck. Do you guys just restart a run if you don't get a good scaling joker in the first few stakes? I keep waiting for one and get raped around ante 7/8

>>716456334 (OP)
>Kills the photochad shills

>>716483161
farm as much money as possible and visit as much shops as possible (never skip) to get to see as much jokers as possible.
also, planet cards are basically mini jokers so even if you don't get a scoring joker right away, keep lvling up hands to help you get by while you build your economy engine. until around ante 6 your sole focus should be getting money (gold cards over steel cards, lucky cards over glass cards, etc. play throwaway hands instead of finishing the blind if you are yet to draw your gold/lucky cards from your deck) and spending it on scoring sources only when neccessary. keep track of how much your average hand is scoring so you know whether you need more scoring or not for the next blind.
pairs is the most consistent hand in terms of scoring and ease of playing, so you should go for it unless circumstance forces you to pivot to a better alternative (no mercury planets in sight or picking up shortcut).
don't be afraid of picking up something like an eternal lusty joker in your first buffon pack. even if you don't end up building your run around it, it will carry you through the early game and you absolutely don't need all of your slots to be maximum score output. planet cards and 2-3 good jokers is usually more than enough to beat ante 8

How much playtime do you fuckers have to remember all the jokers and their effects?
I still have to read every single one.

>>716485506
Though you might find those interesting to learn about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_cue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_recognition_(psychology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_(psychology)

>>716483367
Oh look it's Needle with extra steps.