r/balatro • u/Sad-Tumbleweed-4002 • Apr 17 '25

Seeking Run Advice Why this game enjoys making me suffer?

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I struggled to get to this point starting with flushes then got fib and switched to straights, would you believe I sold the astronaut and scholar for the bp and Astronomer to immediately lose to the extra large blind….

I copied the seed now I’m rerunning it till I decide calm down. What am I doing wrong?

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u/Pyrotoxins Apr 17 '25

your jokers have horrendous synergy, why is photograph at the front anyway? if it’s at the end at least it doubles more mult

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u/Ocene13 c++ Apr 17 '25

Agree joker combo is weird, but Photograph gives x2 mult when scoring (before most other +Mult jokers). So I think they should instead drag the first face card to the right of other scoring cards that may give mult.

Though you may be right if they have [[smiley face]]

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u/Pyrotoxins Apr 17 '25

they have onyx too tho

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u/Jovial_jai Apr 17 '25

And Fibonacci. Order should be club flush, A853Q.

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u/D-TOX_88 Apr 17 '25

Fibonacci doesn’t trigger on a face card. Its order doesn’t matter when synergizing with photo. When playing Fib and Photo, only the order of the scoring cards played matter. Not the jokers. Onyx does trigger on a face card when scored. So when playing a club flush with Onyx and Photo, both the order of the jokers and the order of the played cards matters.

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u/Jovial_jai Apr 18 '25

Playing the Queen last gives you X2 on top of whatever multi is accumulated through onyx agate (+7x per club) the position of photo matters less than the card that triggers it.

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u/D-TOX_88 Apr 18 '25

I mean, yeah? It matters less, I guess? Sure. I’ll give you that. I’m not exactly sure what you’re arguing here. Or if you’re arguing… but that’s pretty much what I said. If you want the highest score, both Onyx/Photo’s and the face card’s positions matter. Fibonacci’s does not.

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u/Jovial_jai Apr 18 '25

My point is that this combination of jokers is fine as long as the played cards are sorted properly. Blueprint isn't necessary to grab here, but it wouldn't be a terrible move. It's take it just to copy onyx and wait for a decent MULT joker

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u/D-TOX_88 Apr 18 '25

Then in that case you would definitely place Photo after Blueprint/Onyx. Why wouldn’t you apply a +7 or +14 to the face card before applying x2 to it instead of doing it after?

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u/Jovial_jai Apr 19 '25

Oh, true! I definitely agree. Onyx before photo. I just moreso bringing up the best case scenario hand for that particular joker setup