Given optimal conditions, such as precise skip bonuses with favorable outcomes and the most favorable dealt hand, what is the highest score that the very first hand of a run can achieve?

Is there any record of a highest score achieved with the first hand?

  • Silverchase@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    My first guess was to play a random deck with mostly hearts, use one skip to get a Heartstone, and another skip to get a Daredevil or a retrigger joker. But skips that give you booster packs right away don’t appear in ante 1, except for the Mega Arcana one, so my idea would have to lean on that.

    Take a Judgement to get a Heartstone, take an Emperor to get a second Judgement and a Fool. Use the Fool to get a new Emperor and use the Judgement to get another good joker, and so on. The probability of all of this going just right is silly.

    But this is all just Christmas thinking. The more practical question is what actual seed and deck can give the best score in the first hand, not what is the first hand high score for any artificially constructed setup.

    • trashboat@midwest.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      The more practical question is what actual seed and deck can give the best score in the first hand, not what is the first hand high score for any artificially constructed setup.

      I’m particularly curious about the answer to this, but I haven’t seen prior discussion or tracking of it anywhere