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?
Probably… :
Boss is the manacle or The Pillar
Skip tag, Arcana tag, gives 4 tarot packs giving 2 choices each one.
1 soul : Triboulet
3 judgement : blueprint, brainstorm , Sock and buskin
First hand : King, King, King, Queen , Queen.
(40 + 100) x (4 * 210)
140 * 4 * 1024
573,440
Now let me see if I’m right… oh wait, I forgot the trib and sock being doubled…
(40 + 200) * (4 * 230)
1,030,792,151,040
https://efhiii.github.io/balatro-calculator/?h=IACMGABIdwoAC2g9AaDUAoA
🤔 not sure where I went wrong with that calc
816,043,786,240 actual total
EDIT : ah, it’s 40+150, not 40+ 200 .
EDIT2 : maybe you can fuck with the emperor to get more score, but I CBA to do the tradeoffs/state calcs for cheesing to get more triggers using the fool getting chad or two planet cards.
I don’t know the intricate math off the top of my head because I’ve never actually manually calculated a hand before… but if you rolled an erratic deck to get 7 kings in hand plus an ace and pulled blueprint brainstorm baron mime off 4 judgements… I feel like that might be something.
And yeah if you consider improbable emperor chains you could add a troubador off another judgement for 2 more kings.
Balatro calculator says 51,647,341,517, which isn’t as high as I thought.
fuck it, unproven time.
I bet you can get naninf with perfect luck and emperor abuse. We are using Magic deck (1 additional consumable slot)
Every emperor gives us at least the fool.
Every time we get a joker off judgement it’s negative.
First tarot card is judgement, giving us showman.
Emperor : fool + judgement. Play fool, get Emperor
Play judgement, get blueprint. Play emperor, get fool + judgement. I have demonstrated a loop for infinite blueprints.
There are two tarot cards to choose from left.
Choose the soul, get Tribulet.
Get Sock & buskin, mime and baron
get infinite handsize with infinite juggler
Stop generating judgement, start generating infinite high priestess Every high priestess gives pluto + earth
Get infinite level high card and full house.
Waste the last tarot cards
Go into the boss and play high card OR full house
Win due to infinite baron/mime triggers or Tribulet triggers.
EDIT : Follow up questions:
What are the odds of this happenning , at any level of efficiency?
How long will it take to score?
When will your computer melt?