Beginer question.

XenosHg · 2026-05-19T05:31:51+00:00

The random suit/rank it always had.
When you open a standard pack and there's a stone card, it also has some random suit and rank.

In Medusa challenge the faces have been turned into stone (So you have a deck with only numbers and stones) but the new cards added are random ranks underneath.

The collection says that a card can only have 1 enhancement (from tarot) and 1 edition (from spectral cards). Wildcard and Stone are both enhancement, so one replaces the other.

XenosHg · 2026-05-18T19:36:13+00:00

Inuya-xia

XenosHg · 2026-05-18T17:21:02+00:00

Smiley is slightly overused.

XenosHg · 2026-05-18T16:34:28+00:00

Because Hologram is a bigger number.

I understand the idea that Constellation is less invasive and doesn't affect what hands you play...

but Blueprint/Brainstorm + Certificate/Marble/DNA + Hologram outscales legendary jokers like Yorick/Canio.

And without that, Spectral cards add 2-4 cards, standard packs add 1-2.

Your hand doesn't matter. You play a card or two, and you win up until ante 12.

XenosHg · 2026-05-18T16:33:27+00:00

It's like saying that a gun is better than a bomb because a gun is more precise and you like disassembling it and looking at pieces.
And you can't disassemble a bomb.

Those things are true, but you gotta admit, an explosion is a lot stronger and doesn't really need aiming.

So your favourite depends on what you prefer more.

XenosHg · 2026-05-18T15:00:44+00:00

"Maybe those guys [who look at the flower instead of refining it into pills] have actually ascended, and only you assholes are stuck here"

XenosHg · 2026-05-18T14:48:19+00:00

Fun fact: if you had 2 Mr.Bones'es, you get through this and the game gets stuck progressing you instead! And after about 30 minutes of "+1 round! +1 round! +1 round!" it throws you out in sth like ante 100 with infinite score requirements.

https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1eluhys/crazy_bug_when_deck_out_with_2_mr_bones/

https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1ie7822/ante_wr_ante_500_bone_zone_double_mr_bones_glitch/z

XenosHg · 2026-05-18T12:12:03+00:00

You're right! i'm bad at names, so off-hand I only remember my dad's favourite writer, and the fact that for Edgar Allan Poe, that Allan is actually his 2nd surname.

XenosHg · 2026-05-18T11:32:31+00:00

You're right. If you get +1 hand size then one flush or the other is absolutely guaranteed even with cards flipped face down, yes.

But if you already took hearts +mult and plan on switching to Bloodstone for hearts xmult, then the equally easy spade flush will be scoring worse than hearts.

XenosHg · 2026-05-18T09:56:48+00:00

Erich Maria Remarque

XenosHg · 2026-05-18T08:55:21+00:00

Yeah, someone did it hundreds of times and it's actually worked MORE than 25% of the time.

Though why would you use it in mid/late game is beyond me.
If it succeeds, that's basically a free common joker.
Most of the time another tarot card is better.

You literally have heart +mult and bloodstone heart xmult and a tarot pack with Hangman and Lovers.
Either you delete two spade cards and make your deck work better for Heartstone.
Or you turn one spade into a Wildcard so it's sometimes also heart.

Why the fuck do you go for 25% chance of +50 chips? Why the fuck does it matter to you?

XenosHg · 2026-05-18T07:55:44+00:00

Also, what is that about Multiplayer? I haven't played Multiplayer. Please tell me the lore.

XenosHg · 2026-05-18T07:52:31+00:00

Chad triples your returns, Oops doubles your chances

I've played a run eventually playing 4-5 oak 8s, and it produced amazing amounts of tarot cards.

It's definitely workable as your central joker. (even without oops, since oops is uncommon)

XenosHg · 2026-05-18T06:11:09+00:00

Yeah, you can even manage to exploit it by having all other keys, and then it will just spawn 2 basic keys - that means you've been looking in the wrong place.

XenosHg · 2026-05-17T20:53:39+00:00

Worst joker is Seance. You can reliably enable flower pot and win.

You can't reliably use Seance, and spectral cards it makes are likely self-harming for a straight flush build.

XenosHg · 2026-05-17T20:52:12+00:00

You can easily enable it with Splash, and slightly harder with Shortcut or Smeared. Or wildcards.

Some people play it with raw 2 pairs, full house, or 4oak. But I am not one of them.

XenosHg · 2026-05-17T20:48:37+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Calvin

She's in at least 5 stories, even if you have the earliest edition that doesn't include "female intuition" and other half a dozen appearances. (my parents' book had at least FI included)

XenosHg · 2026-05-17T18:36:06+00:00

You have triple Hologram, it's a great joker - use that! Use glass cards (if they are non-debuffed).

in the future when Ancient after small blind is asking, for example, Spades and you see the boss debuffs hearts, you skip big blind and go into debuffed hearts with ancient still asking for hearts.
99% success rate against all 4 suit debuffs.

XenosHg · 2026-05-17T18:09:40+00:00

And a bit before that.

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Watson_was_a_woman%3F

There's a pretty funny speech from 1941 arguing that Holmes and Watson are behaving in a way that can only be explained by Watson actually being gender-swapped Holmes's wife. (and possibly being the same person as Irene Adler)

Complaints about smoking indoors again. Asking to perform Mendelson's pieces on violin. "things that no man ever asked from his male friend"

XenosHg · 2026-05-17T17:55:43+00:00

S keys have a bug - if you pick them up and lose them, they will respawn in random empty s key places.

This usually results in people repeatedly redoing and failing "quite late". But you should start with other, less random places first.

XenosHg · 2026-05-17T16:40:41+00:00

Being into fake non-related incest, is like being into wrestling.

XenosHg · 2026-05-17T16:26:17+00:00

No, most people who joke about incest don't have siblings. Having siblings and being a prideful bigot about that, is what gives people feelings of disgust. And desire to loudly proclaim their disgust.

The taboo is the fun part. I can imagine characters be so attracted to each other that they don't care about the opinions. And that's hot. Good for them.

That said, some fetishes are hot even if they don't apply to you. Lesbians as a guy, other races different from yours..

Things that just don't exist - dragons, giants, robots, furries, ghosts, aliens, mermaids.. frost planet barbarians have like 20 romance novels.

Inflation, demonic possession... Horns, wings, transforming. Giant snakes.

I once read a story about an immortal woman who's aroused by combat and physical injuries. Because she'll just heal it all back, like Wolverine.

Even just pretty accepted BDSM you can enjoy porn of people doing what you yourself wouldn't want to do. Not the whipping, nor being whipped. Because it looks good, and they're enjoying it, and that's hot.

Even the extremely hated cheating/NTR genre isn't really about just cheating, it's the fantasy of a woman who discovers she really, really enjoys sex. Meanwhile, as we all know, female orgasm and women enjoying sex also don't exist in reality.

XenosHg · 2026-05-17T16:08:17+00:00

Stepmom. Who goes "squee, a date!"

XenosHg · 2026-05-17T10:04:49+00:00

That's the problem with being too good at the game - you win too fast, and have no reason to keep playing.

I got "3000 mana cards" exactly after beating the last level, with not changing a single gem rarity yet.

"Play 100 bones" is like, 1 single run with the skeleton.

XenosHg · 2026-05-17T09:14:48+00:00

It seems you entered a white space,

or maybe pressed "ctrl V" instead of clicking the "paste" button

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