[TAS] Balatro "maximum score" in 5m 48.23s
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Explaining the rules of Balatro would take too long, but here is an overview of the relevant strategies I used aiming for the highest score:
TL;DR: Perkeo amassing Cryptids eventually copying Red Seal Steel Kings. Brainstorms and Blueprint copying Baron and Mime. Win.
First, increase speed of the game, unlock all jokers, and then play through the unskippable tutorial.
Start a new Ghost Deck game, so that Spectral Cards appear in shops. Critical for my high-score strategy.
#### Ante 1 ####
I pick up Brainstorm, a very useful copying joker. I use Hex to help with earlier rounds.
• Brainstorm (Joker): "Copies the ability of leftmost Joker"
• Hex (Spectral Card): "Adds 'Polychrome' to a random Joker, and destroys the rest."
• Polychrome (Modifier): "X1.5 Mult"
Then I use Soul to get my Perkeo joker.
• Soul (Spectral Card): "Creates a Legendary Joker"
• Perkeo (Joker): "Creates a Negative copy of 1 random consumable card in your possession at the end of the shop"
• Negative (Modifier): Negative cards don't take up a slot, so you can have an infinite amount of them
I then pick up a Cryptid card, to start copying, which is the main strategy.
• Cryptid (Spectral Card): "Creates 2 exact copies of a selected card in your hand."
#### Ante 2 ####
For scoring purposes I pick up Earth.
• Earth (Planet Card): Makes Full Houses give a higher score.
For early scoring I pick up the Flash Card (Jj) joker.
• Flash Card (Jj): "This Joker gains +2 Mult per reroll in the shop "
I use Deja Vu to create a Red Seal on my King, part of the scoring strategy.
• Deja Vu (Spectral Card): "Adds a Red Seal to 1 selected card."
• Red Seal (Modifier): "Retrigger this card 1 time"
#### Ante 3 ####
I use Ectoplasm to make room for more jokers.
• Ectoplasm (Spectral Card): "Add Negative to a random Joker, but -1 hand size."
I use a Chariot to make a Steel Ace. I actually want the Steel to land on the Red Seal King, but that's later.
• Chariot (Tarot Card): "Enhances 1 selected card into a Steel Card"
• Steel Card (Modifier): "X1.5 Mult while this card stays in hand"
I need money to reroll, luckily I have valuable jokers, so I use Temperance.
• Temperance (Tarot Card): "Gives the total sell value of all current Jokers"
Conveniently, a Showman appears right before the next Brainstorm, the copying joker I already have. I can pick up the Showman and reroll and sell it again.
• Showman (Joker): Usually jokers can't appear in the shop if you already have them, but holding Showman allows them to reappear.
With Mail-In Rebate landing on Kings, I can duplicate my Red Seals, making it more likely to draw later on a Chariot, and also discard them for a lot of reroll money.
• Mail-In Rebate (Joker): "Earn $5 for each discarded [rank], rank changes every round"
Three of a Kinds are faster for scoring than Full Houses, so I switch to those with a Venus card.
• Venus (Planet Card): Makes Three of a Kinds give a higher score.
With the reroll money, I can reroll to the Blueprint, which is yet another copying joker.
• Blueprint (Joker): "Copies ability of Joker to the right"
#### Ante 4 ####
I replace my Flash Card (Jj) with The Trio and pick up another Venus. This together is now enough to beat the Ante 6 and 7 bosses, which get in the way of my scoring strategy.
• The Trio (Joker): "X3 Mult if played hand contains a Three of a Kind"
I can finally use Chariot to Steel one of my Red Seal Kings, which completes the deck setup for the final hand. Now all I need is find the necessary jokers and amass enough Cryptids.
#### Ante 5 ####
I can skip a blind, because I'm getting close to having enough Cryptids. In fact, I even use a Cryptid to copy my Red Seal Steel King, which allows it to show up faster in the final Ante.
#### Ante 6 ####
I simply reroll for the Baron.
• Baron (Joker): "Each King held in hand gives X1.5 Mult"
#### Ante 7 ####
I immediately skip to the boss blind, because I don't need any more Cryptids. I only need the Mime of Ante 8.
#### Ante 8 ####
I reroll until the Mime, completing the scoring setup.
• Mime (Joker): "Retrigger all card held in hand abilities"
#### Final Hand ####
This is what happens:
Every Red Seal Steel King held in Hand has the following:
• 4 X1.5 Mult abilities: Steel + Baron + Brainstorm + Brainstorm
• 4 retriggers: Base Trigger + Red Seal + Mime + Blueprint
This gives 4x4 = 16 X1.5 Mult calculations, which is X1.5^16 = X656.8 for each card.
I use 54 Cryptids, which gives 1 + 54*2 = 109 cards. This means a mult of X656.8^109 = X1.2e307.
With the non-steel Red Seal King we get another X1.5^12 = X129.7, which puts us beyond X1.7e308 = 2^1024, which is the largest number represented by the double-precision floating-point format used by Lua in the LÖVE framework, which Balatro is programmed in.
Due to implementation details, it results in a "nan" value before the "e" and a "inf" after it, so we get a score of "naneinf".
![[TAS] SMW "repeated input" in 11×02:22.93](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CL9yGz7VVrM/mqdefault.jpg)
About 36% of this video is just the scoring animation for the final hand. Violet Vessel never knew what was coming.
What’s the full percentage (like decimal) as I want to see how long it would repeat for (unless it’s like 0.666666666 or something like that)
@@SquidPartyDudeScoring starts at 5:49 and ends at 9:12 so 203/567 of the total seconds were used to score the hand, which is 35.80246914% of the overall time.
i absolutely love how you just randomly come out from the dead just to release a banger and then go into hiding again
He always does this and i love it
Casinos hate this simple trick
Fr they hate it when i pull out steel copies of a card i have out of nowhere. In fact they hate it so much they quit and give me all the casino's funds of 16 dollars
the dealer when i play a 117 card hand and accumulate 10^infinity chips:
As soon as I saw a King get a red stamp, I knew where this was headed
You know it’s a good hand when the mult number counting looks like a damn tornado
I think you beat the blind
yeah i think he beat it
probably not, what makes you say that?
Masterjun: "Omae wa mou shindeiru"
Balatro: "naneinf?!"
I wish I could like this twice
We did it reddit
The sound of the final hand being played sounds almost exactly like a dragonball character powering up.
That's about x656 Mult per King held in hand
the funniest part is how the tas casually sharpshoots every. single. blind. does not overshoot any of them at all.
Overshooting would mean more animations, which is slower
last thing I expected from masterjun but I am not at all disappointed
Masterjun is known for uploading on April Fools' Day, so a Balatro video seems appropriate.
@@softestcat Except it's only the 10th of February
@SkyyySi you could say.... he's a joker
6:00 It's not... it-it's not shutting down... it's not--
Wow this was so sick to watch, I absolutely love Balatro tas', good job making this!
I love how it didn't just give infinity, but naneinf, or in other words: `Not a number * (10 ^ infinity)`
It's because the digit formatter is custom, and for that you need to figure out the part before the e, which is x/ilog10(x) = inf/inf = nan
Ikr that's insane. There must be some weird handling of the number as 2 floats or something instead of 1 float.
5:15
"Stop flicking your cards!"
-Magnus
The High Card Particle Accelerator strikes again
i have been waiting for this
THE GOAT STRIKES AGAIN
i didnt know i needed a balatro TAS by masterjun, but here we are
Knowing masterjun, I'm not surprised if he do arbitrary code execution and put super mario bros inside balatro
Someone has already made a mod for that tbf, I think ACE would be a little difficult but someone has already made a joker that just plays mario
You could probably code a simple version of Balatro in Pokémon yellow, or at least code a video player that replays a game of Balatro
absolutely CRACKED seed
Thank you for giving us this!
hey masterjun! I don't have an interest in balatro but always cool to see a new video of yours! wish you the best.
Play balatro… join us…
@@younglove6363 PLEASE.
It’s peak…
The average runs streamers be getting off cam:
**infinite exponent of chips**
Jimbo: Too bad these chips are all virtual!
Only in a TAS can you have a four minute gap between the end of the run and the end of the turn
X1.5 Mult
Again!
And again...
and Again!… and Again!…
Another banger
And it's not even April Fool's.
after this, the violet vessel didnt be the same again
Oh mein gott.... Its full of fastenwinnen...
"Too bad these chips are virtual..."
Yeah. Take _that,_ RTGame.
“Too bad these chips are all virtual” I think it’s better that we don’t summon nan x 10^(inf) chips in the real world
1 million views incoming
Slow down bro, i want to copy your move😭🙏🏼
Epic
how are you able to those actions so quick
Nane the Infinite? Are you joking?
Nice
a NON mario masterjun video? is it christmas????
mf needs more chips fr bad build 0/10 /j
Legendary upload!!
Of course he ends with $25 for that sweet $5 interest
woah
The plant:
what is the seed?
2C6JHF
Cash out for 16 dollar
Stop, stop! He's already dead!
What system is this on?
pc
Close win
Nahh no way he’s back 2 years later to drop a non Mario video
:(( I’m in shambles over here
Too bad these chips are all virtual...
And that's why, kids, you should never multiply something by 15
what's the seed?
2C6JHF (it's in the game summary screen at the end of the video)