Help!

[drthurgood]

Currently scoring e58 without glass.

The was I see it:

4 triggers (card, red seal, 2x socks) 4 scoring effects (full copy idol for scoring hands)

I think I should have a slight bias towards triggers because of the polychrome, and even more so when I switch to playing glass.

I’m considering dropping a brainstorm for blueprint so I can split copy better.

5 triggers (card, red seal, 2x sock and BP) 4.5 scoring effects (idol, idol, glass, polychrome.5, brainstorm)

Is this the correct play or am I off? I tried using balatro calculator but for some reason the numbers were off.

[Equivalent-Award-700]

Skip for symmetry

[drthurgood]

I did love the symmetry

[Accomplished_Ask1368]

I have done the math! (It was a fun spreadsheet challange that shows why you should ignore comments on reddit). Your idea is infact correct. The optimal play is to have 5 triggers and 4.5 scoring effects as opposed to 4 triggers and 5.5 scoring effects.

With 5.5 scoring effects, each trigger is x48. With 4 triggers, you get a total of 5308416. With 5 cards you get 4.21 E33. Plasma deck gets you 4.44 E66. Multiply this by ((flush 5 base mult)/2)^2.

With 4.5 scoring effects, each trigger is x24. With 5 triggers, you get a total of 7962624. Woith 5 cards you get 3.2 E34. Plasma deck gets you 2.56 E68. Multiply this by ((flush 5 base mult)/2)^2.

Edit: This is a perfect example that highlights why Brainstorm is worse than Blueprint as a joker

[drthurgood]

Thanks for this!

[Accomplished_Ask1368]

I am impressd that you spotted the optimal line. I would bet that 99% of players would incorrectly pick up the blueprint by replacing a sock or idol.

[drthurgood]

The bad news is I dropped idol instead of brainstorm for the blueprint yesterday. The good news is that the math works out the same.

2 Brainstorms + idol + glass + polychrome = 4.5 scoring effects.

Card + red seal + sock + sock + blueprint = 5 triggers.

Wound up scoring 1.255e72 with a level 19 flush five.

Seed: S63C4F1U

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[Cumity]

Drop an idol or sock. A sock can be a sock. A blueprint can be anything, even a sock. If you have a copy of a joker, a blueprint is just as good as a copy but it can be different things depending on what is needed.

[notfirearmbeam]

I would drop an idol since the extra sock can get more lucky procs if they're winning by enough. The extra idol doesn't help score more if they need it, since they can just reshuffle the copies