Balatro

Dirk Diggler said:
What kind of tactics are you all employing? I'm generally trying to get an accumulation for chips and multi, and a X3 to suit. I'm discovering some of the jokers that I'd written off as useless previously are actually really powerful, e.g. The Wee Joker when used with Hanging Chad seriously gets the chip count up quickly.
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I'm no expert (have only completed gold on one deck and only have a high score of 93 billion, which is way, way short of the exponential numbers I see people getting), but there a few points that have helped me getting my decks levelled up and improved my win rate.

I like to aim for one decent chips joker (scaling preferrably, but not essential), one decent scaling + multi joker and a couple of x multi ones (preferrably at least one scaling again).

But, what I neglected at first (and for a long time) was how important economy is, especially early on. You want to get that interest rolling in and stay above the max interest threshold. And don't neglect planet cards and deck manipulation through tarots. Egg, golden, delayed graficiation if I can swing it, gift card, satellite - I will always pick one of those up now if I see them earlyish in a run.

Also, I started to try to be more flexible - being prepared to change up my build depending on what I pick up and pivoting to better synergies. I like to get a hand in mind to play for the run as soon as I can (usually flushes, pair, two pair or just high card) and lean into that with planet cards and jokers that synergise and start to tweak my deck to support it.

And gold cards, steel cards, glass cards and red and purple seals especially can really help keep your momentum going.
 
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This was my best score when the game first came out.

Lots of glass card flushes / good joker setup if I recall properly.
 
Dirk Diggler said:
What kind of tactics are you all employing? I'm generally trying to get an accumulation for chips and multi, and a X3 to suit. I'm discovering some of the jokers that I'd written off as useless previously are actually really powerful, e.g. The Wee Joker when used with Hanging Chad seriously gets the chip count up quickly.
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I basically try and make sure I'm improving all three stats = chips, multi and multiplier with jokers but all depends on the cards dealt. The challenges are great for forcing you to play different.
 
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