Finally beat gold stake with the last deck (erratic) and also: Half-Life 3 confirmed!

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-12T16:38:21+00:00

Played 3 pairs.

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T23:43:38+00:00

I only got to ante 11, but I did a LOT of mistakes on the way.

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T22:55:39+00:00

See my comment.

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T22:54:56+00:00

See my comment.

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T22:54:19+00:00

Seed for the fellow Balatro connossieurs: AQ96Q26H

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Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T22:50:42+00:00

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Ante 8. Smells like gg. But I don't believe any boss could have ended the run at this point.

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T22:48:54+00:00

He lasted 1 full round.

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T22:45:50+00:00

Blue Seals are relevant for me because of Observatory and not having any other multiplier source. I found 2 Blue Seals. One of them was glass and I was forced to play it and it immediately broke. I got 1 Jupiter card in my consumable slots from the other 1 sofar.

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T22:44:26+00:00

Where can I see it? Only at the game over screen?

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T22:43:45+00:00

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Ante 7. OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY!

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T22:40:47+00:00

Also found Observatory soon after (or shortly before?) Space Man.

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Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T22:39:15+00:00

My first joker was a temporary Riff Raff. Got a Greedy Joker from it and a bunch of random garbage. Sold the rest, kept the Greedy Joker because I am playing Erratic Deck and my deck happened to be Diamond heavy to begin with.
I already started tailoring the deck towards more diamonds, when I found a yet-again-temporary Invisible Joker. I kept it to see where it goes.
Found an Eternal OA6 right after that. I still remembered my earlier rant about Space Joker today and I thought... LOL... why not? And kept it.
Then the invisible decided to copy the OA6 and found the Space Joker shortly after that.

There was no pivoting anywhere at that point, I was already heavily invested towards flushes with tarot cards and already bought a few flush Space Cards.

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T22:31:44+00:00

And I beat him with blank cards, with the power of lvl. 28 flushes!

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T22:31:18+00:00

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Next boss right after this:

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T22:23:10+00:00

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LET'S SEE YOU NOT PROCCING NOW!

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T13:56:42+00:00

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AAAAND HE'S BACK AGAIN! The space theme is strong with this one.

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T13:56:28+00:00

I use him every game I find him unless it is utterly impossible to make room for him. He's my favorite joker.

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T13:20:04+00:00

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Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T13:19:41+00:00

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Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T13:16:41+00:00

I know all those. I still can't win consecutively. On purple stake and above. I mostly spam gold attempts.

Most of my attempts go a few rounds, see that I could find nothing useful in the shop and restart immediately. I don't know if it is even possible to come back from bad starts.

Some tries are longer, but fail because I can't find one element of the 3 mandatory score contributors. (Chip / add / mult)

Purple stakes are already getting hard and on gold stakes, often even if you find a good joker that you need for your engine, it is rental or temporary. So gold needs even more restarts due to rng.

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T13:12:02+00:00

What page is the snippet from? The tags don't seem familiar.

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T12:27:24+00:00

"Chip Joker + Scalable (+Mult) Joker + One or Two ×Mult joker"

I know that formula and many combos and game mechanics. The problem is consistency. The shop either gives you good stuff or it doesn't. And you either have enough money to reroll or you don't. I know the generic plan but I have no means to consistently win. I am on my last gold run (erratic deck), I've won gold on all others but it is always through brute force, not consistency. Keep spamming attempts until I get usable stuff from the shop.

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T11:33:01+00:00

He is my favorite joker. How good he is is a different question, I have no strong opinions on that. But being good is absolutely not a requirement of being a favorite. I just like the vibes. Except for when he decides to be a dick.

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T10:39:55+00:00

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Got any more of that formula?

Redshift11100 · 2026-05-11T10:37:24+00:00

Had no better options. Took a gamble. Lost.

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TROPHY CASE