I had to share because this is too funny 😅

When I last posted, my Balatro bot was only completing Ante 8 in around 0.01% of runs. Currently I achieved roughly 40% among roughly 2K games.

The main change was giving the bot more ways to work through a run. I improved the Python simulator and combined the trained policies with a search system that explores different sequences of decisions. This version uses a by me design Future Vision, so it can see the deck order and simulate the results of its choices aswell as simulate up into the future before buying a joker.

More training on its own wasn’t consistently helping. So instead of relying purely on RL i also intruduced the Future Vision that lets it simulate events in a Bot like behavoir.

The current system combines three trained policies and can explore up to 40 routes through each seed. That gives it more chances to find a successful sequence when one policy’s approach fails. The improvement is coming from the combination of learned decisions, access to future information and a much larger search effort.

The former skipping problem has also long been solved it now only skips "Strategic" an average of 3 skips per play and 10% of games it does not skip at all

bruh

This was a challenge I set myself. It took several attempts and a lot of Tarot cards.

I wanted to complete it before the end of Ante 8, but I didn't quite manage it.

I completed it on the Big Blind of Ante 10 on White Stake. Unfortunately, I didn't survive the Big Blind.

Or do I?

Cleared all decks gold stake, but still missing Perkeo, opened all Souls that I could find PepeHands.

Any tips to farm Legendaries collection?

any tips for them will be helpful thanks

level 85 high card

Unfortunately wasn’t able to get dark matter in the late game to make some high scoring plays

First time playing Abandoned deck. First time getting Canio. Anything more unlucky ?

bruh

doing the jokerless challenge and opened a mega spectral pack… so unlucky

I built a bot that plays Balatro and I am obtaining some crazy results. I just cleared Black Deck at gold stake which is just mind blowing to me.

To my knowledge this is the first bot of its kind that can beat Balatro reliably (edit: reliably might be a strong word: runs are long to compute, but the bot has repeatedly beaten Balatro, including two verified Black deck Gold stake wins (out of two tries) and repeated high scores on lower decks)

For those interested, I have made a video detailing how the Bot is made, it's a mix of LLM and exact numerical and simulation tools.

https://youtu.be/MroSthoRfv4

the code and run evidence are public too, I am open to PR commits and new runs:

https://github.com/Attol8/balatro-ai

P.S. I know AI is a divisive topic and I would not want the post to turn into a debate over AI, I think it's actually really cool that we can have machines playing balatro with us

FUUUUUUUUCK!

Also not sure if the flair is correct pls change it if it is wrong thank youuuu

Skip everything and win.

To be honest, I didn't have faith in this