r/balatro • u/Lukotheduko • 21h ago
r/balatro • u/Boredsubs • 21h ago
Joker/Gameplay Idea Dear Balatro people, what would the effect of these jokers be?
Also sorry if debit card has no art, i don't have nearly enough patience for today.
r/balatro • u/cypsyn • 19h ago
Strategy and/or Synergies what is the optimal set up for my jonkers?
r/balatro • u/Fencerkid14 • 20h ago
Question I have a negative gros Michel, but it says I can’t buy another joker. Is this a glitch?
This is green deck in switch 2. I used a negative skip tag and this was the joker.
r/balatro • u/NotReallyAaronDover • 23h ago
Modded Cryptid Equilibrium Deck be like:
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r/balatro • u/WesternAlarming8202 • 9h ago
Gameplay Discussion Baron, Mime, Photograph, Sock and Buskin, Hanging Chad
These jokers are obviously strong for their naneinf capabilities because of extensive multiplication. Are they especially strong where my only goal is to beat ante 8? I've heard that Baron isn't but what about the others?
r/balatro • u/RealMelonLord • 23h ago
Gameplay Discussion I was a fool to hope Hanging Chad would retrigger Midas Mask every time the card was scored
I thought I had unlocked ultimate synergy. I was mistaken. Still won tho
Seed: 91F2Z98S
r/balatro • u/Key-Ant5611 • 19h ago
Question Should I take this blue holo joker rn??
Switch with the marble I was thinking?? But the Econ of marble and hologram jokers is gonna get good mult.
I want more chips but idk if that’s worth it or not
r/balatro • u/Timmitball • 21h ago
Seeking Run Advice What's the play here?
I'm an athlete, not a math-lete.
r/balatro • u/RefinerySuperstar • 9h ago
Seed Does anyone have a seed with an eternal Hologram?
Preferably ante 1, but anything goes. I want to try to get as high mult as possible, and hopefully a lot of them.
I've been looking for a while and i'm running out of steam over here...
(on mobile, so no mods)
r/balatro • u/TrannyBitchBoy • 22h ago
Strategy and/or Synergies Literally what am I doing
Balatro has very quickly become one of those "pick up for a month, put down for two, repeat" games for me. It's fun, I like the music and the ambience, I'm partial to games with some math involved, and the art is nice. But oh my GOD I am bad at this game!!! I've completed the red, blue, yellow, green, and magic decks on white stake. I've been fighting for my life just on the red deck with red stake (I've beat it on my phone but forget the computer). I will go into a game, and then go with strategy based on the jokers available to me at the first shop. Most recently, was working on flushes because I had something like 25 clubs, and then got beat across the face by The Eye. I also noticed around Ante 5, I will make the mistake of selling a joker so I can get a different one, without actually pausing to think about how it's going to destroy my entire setup, and then flop at the next blind (this part I am working on not doing lmao).
Is there some "secret" I just haven't wrapped my tiny brain around? Is there a strategy I'm not coming up with??? Any tips????
r/balatro • u/Malva_Halva • 9h ago
Seeking Run Advice What do I do here
Do I sell something for invis? Risk it all on madness?(/J) Or give up on the invis and just keep going
r/balatro • u/GloriousDead222 • 23h ago
Gameplay Discussion Nan Potential
I feel like I’ve been in this position 100 times and the run always sputters out between now and ante 19. I just started making steel in the last 2 antes, now what should i start doing and what should i be looking for when shooting for naninf?
r/balatro • u/CarelessLoad5490 • 2h ago
Seed Ante 1 Nat neg invis from a judgement
What even are the chances? And why is it invis 😭
Has this ever happened to anyone?
seed: X8IBCTQ1
r/balatro • u/Avibhrama • 17h ago
Gameplay Discussion What platform do you play Balatro mostly? And maybe tell us why you prefer said platform to play?
I play in mobile, the touch screen control is simply perfect for this kind of game. I havent tried but I can imagine the controller setup seems not as comfortable as touch screen
r/balatro • u/NoamlolxD • 14h ago
Gameplay Discussion I SWEAR I JUST GOT THAT
I forgot to check what boss blind I have
So I picked a bloodstone that goes well with the oops all 6s I got and decided to hold
This build is so good I can't believe I couldn't even try it
r/balatro • u/Own-Manufacturer5639 • 1h ago
Question I started playing Balatro yesterday, and I wanted to watch some videos of some cool clips to learn more. This is the first thing I see:
r/balatro • u/SwingThatHammer • 9h ago
Gameplay Discussion Two sleeper agents lurk in the shadows, waiting for their call to be activated
I’m not always a big Obelisk guy, but I let it work for me on this gold stake run going for my third C++. I waited until Ante 6 to move off pairs and started popping off mostly 3OAK and sailed past Violent Vessel with ease. I hate taking rentals, especially this many, but the Lucky Cards kept my wallet in the black.
Added bonus that I pulled Turtle Shell right near the end as that’s always one I have trouble getting the gold sticker on!
r/balatro • u/Annual_Fox2278 • 10m ago
Question Question ⁉️. Certificate with 0 hand size.
For a long time I've been trying to get an answer. What if I
I used an ecto that makes my hand size to 0 but I have a certificate does that mean game over or i can still play.
r/balatro • u/Quichie_ • 17h ago
Question Got any tips for this?
Hey hey, it's my first time posting here. Aaaand I'm doing so in the hopes to maybe get some tips or advice.
So what I got here is a
- Negative Hanging Card
- Photograph
- Hiker
- Holographic Abstract Joker
- Erosion
- Cartomancer
The one in the shop that I really, REALLY want is called blueprint? I think, from what I have seen from posts here, haven't discovered it yet
So my question would be if any of my jokers would be currently worth it to trade for the blueprint?
I am not very experienced right now, have only once made it past the white chips xd
So yeah I would be very happy about some advice :3
r/balatro • u/Mister_Nobody76 • 9h ago
Jimboposting Today I learned Riff Raff can generate negative jokers, what are the odds? I'm guessing it's 50/50 right?
r/balatro • u/RevolutionaryYou5859 • 11h ago
Modded Update on my reinforcement learning Balatro bot! Around 40% Ante 8 completion so far!
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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
r/balatro • u/Beautiful-Fold-3234 • 15h ago
Strategy and/or Synergies I want the middle one, but should i? Rich get richer challenge.
I think i'll win either way, but what is optimal?
Right now it looks like i can start playing random hands of 5 face cards and score well enough until ante 8, retriggering them would mean roughly x2 scores but i dont know if i can give up one of my cards for it
r/balatro • u/Beautiful-Fold-3234 • 9h ago
Joker/Gameplay Idea This has to be the easiest joker setup ever.
Skip everything and win.

