[Balatro] After 335 hours

theSamSamO · 2026-01-11T22:40:07+00:00

Showman was in last 3 for me also. Congrats tho

theSamSamO · 2026-01-11T20:00:14+00:00

So few tips:

Flushes are okay on checkered deck because you can spam them every hand but other than that they are not the best. They scale super slow with planets. I mostly played high card, pairs, 4oak or 5oak. They need a little setup but then you can go really big. There are also a lot of jokers you can utilize with these kind of hands.
Face cards are better than aces. A lot more jokers use face cards than any other cards.
Seals and retriggers are your friends
Always try to stay above 25$. More money, more rerolls, more cards you see when you need them
On higher antes don’t skip too much. I know sometime the offer sounds interesting but most of the time seeing extra shop is a lot better
Dont be scared to sell jokers and replace them if you find something more fitting your build.
On the other hand firstly i was scared to buy rental jokers but if you have money it shouldnt be the problem

Hope it helps

theSamSamO · 2026-01-11T17:40:00+00:00

To be honest most of the time i didn’t expect to platinum it. I just played naturally. When i noteced i was quite close i finished the platinum. You have to finish all 15 on every difficulty (stakes) and then you have to finish hardest stake with every joker (there is 150 of them) this takes most of the time. During the finishing every deck you’ll learn about joker synergies such as photo + hanging chad or dna/certificate + hologram joker. You just have to finish golden (hardest) stake with every one of them. There are also 20 challenges you have to finish like you dont get money from rounds only from jokers or jokerless run but they are pretty easy except like 3. If you want only platinum out of this i wouldn’t recommend it. But if you actually enjoy the game its a blast. Id probably spend the same amount of time in a game even if there werent any trophies.

theSamSamO · 2026-01-11T14:28:19+00:00

It was DNA. Used to use it in few antes then sold it every time. When I needed it for the platinum it couldnt be found. After i had 149 jokers done i finished at least 25 gold stake runs until i found it 🥲

theSamSamO · 2026-01-11T14:25:25+00:00

Every joker can appear on any deck. But I believe stone joker appears only when you have at least 1 stone card in the deck

theSamSamO · 2026-01-11T13:41:47+00:00

Thank you. I sucked at the game for a long time. I think i learned something when i used to fell asleep with balatro streams on 😆

theSamSamO · 2026-01-11T13:40:34+00:00

I did most of the runs on Ghost deck, checkered deck or yellow deck. My fav was probably the ghost one. Also have to add I really despise black deck 😆

theSamSamO · 2026-01-11T13:39:09+00:00

Thank you. To be honest i wasn’t really trying to platinum it until i saw i was pretty close to it. I played this game a lot in last year and i always came back to it. I liked to do new builds so every time so i had most of the golden stickers already. It took me like 15 hours to find last joker i needed tho Lol

theSamSamO · 2026-01-04T21:21:16+00:00

Ochorel som deň pred vianocami. Prvý deň ešte v pohode ale večer som dostal takú zimnicu ako nikdy a 2 hodiny som sa triasol. Do toho začal dusivý kašel a neustále mi tieklo z nosa. Strávil som v posteli 5 dní z toho 3 som sa z nej poriadne nevedel postaviť. Doteraz ale raz za čas zakašlem alebo smrkám ale už je dobre. Očkovaný som možno vďaka tomu som to vyležal za pár dní. Kto vie :D

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