As more and more people open their eyes to the gift that is Balatro, its creator promises newbies that the game's most dubious odds aren't dubious at all.
Balatro is a deck-building roguelike where you chase high scores with poker hands, while modifying your deck and purchasing upgrades along the way. Wild cards in particular will stick with you and add unique effects to your hands; They could multiply your score if you play a full house, for example.
But one card, called Wheel of Fortune, claims that there is a 25% chance that it will add a modifier to a Joker when used. This could include turning a random Joker into a foil (where it will deal 50 tokens in each hand), a holographic card (which will add a +10 multiplier in each hand), or a polychrome card (which will add a 1.5x boost). , when you actually play the game, you may feel like you are unlucky most of the time.
“Looks like some of you jokers got Balatro for Christmas,” Balatro creator Localthunk recently tweeted. “I'll answer what will surely be your first question about the game: Yes, Wheel of Fortune really is 1 in 4.” I don't completely believe him, but maybe luck is not on my side.
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