No Jokers Here! Rising to the Jokerless Challenge | Balatro Unlocked

Balatro is a deck-building roguelite where you must play poker hands and earn chips to defeat enemy blinds. Enhance your deck of playing cards, buy Jokers to modify each hand you play, and discover new and wild synergies to win!
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[@jakewillis2484]

truly had me wanting to check to see if jokerless had some footnote about no glass breaks! what a run and incredible luck on that glass!

[@Bacontaco-hn2eb]

Your glass card luck was insane this run

[@herrjo7461]

If anyone is interested how lucky the glass cards were: If I counted correctly there 14 glass cards were played of which 0 broke The odds for this are (3/4)^14 ~ 1.78%

[@GothicLordUK]

I am th Balatro 1%

[@thehulkyman]

Living the dream! ​@@GothicLordUK

[@levipeterken4020]

@@GothicLordUK Would you have lost if a couple of them got destroyed do you think? And was the Verdant Leaf and insta-lose if you couldn't reroll?

[@ennio110]

add to this the amount of times Planet X was seen and having a Boss Blind reroll into the exact one that was wanted

[@TheSeeker225]

Thanks for doing the math. The video seemed like total BS to me.

[@pallad4742]

Localthunk directly tapped into your game to generate the Verdant Leaf into Amber Acorn

[@MyBigRed]

Verdant Leaf being allowed in this challenge is 100% an oversight

[@justarandomchannel1319]

yea..............

[@malirk]

@@justarandomchannel1319 My problem is... I think there are MANY times this challenge is unwinnable. You can get multiple shops at the start with just bad RNG. Maybe the planet packs have mostly high card, pair and at best straights. The tarot cards are holographic jokers or create a joker or money from joker... The challenge is VERY luck based. You can play at your best and have an impossible run.

[@Turkos245]

verdant leaf, flips and shuffles all jokers, judgement/wheel all feel so bad to see (except technically amber acorn since its just a free blind)

[@ennio110]

plenty of ways to reroll boss blind, its not an oversight, just adds to the difficulty

[@TheSeeker225]

​@ennio110 How would you reroll the boss blind without a Joker ? The only way I can think of is to be offered a reroll if you skip a blind.

[@redbeastmage4802]

I am in awe. Lost count of the hours I’ve put into this challenge and you just stroll in, 2nd shot it. Commentary was gold, or should I say glass!

[@gingermlg]

He did many, many, many more attempts on stream.

[@GothicLordUK]

@@gingermlg I did 1 other stream of attempts. 2nd shot it on my second time sitting down to try, which I wouldn't say was many, many, many more :p

[@gingermlg]

@GothicLordUK honestly, it's still impressive, wasn't trying to take away from that. Congrats.

[@quid2238]

I love that I found your channel the moment I fell in love with this game. Your commentary is unmatched. I’m still so happy for you and myself that this game is out now. Adore the personality, cheers man.

[@GothicLordUK]

Hey, welcome to the channel

[@jeromeevans8501]

"Oh so no jokers?" *Slams phone, breaks skateboard* Card me 😎 classic meme style.

[@MewtwoStruckBack]

Nice! I got through Jokerless with Telescope into glass Straights just a bit ago! I only had a couple glass breaks in my run too. It's the only way to get through this, I swear.

[@NotASummoner]

I got it with steel but it was a mess.

[@Erlewyn]

Oh, i haven't unlocked this challenge yet, but man, I am not in a hurry to try it!

[@Manabender]

So the takeaway I'm getting here is that, in order to beat Jokerless, you just have to be obscenely lucky. You got early Ouija and Immolate to immediately get started, and never broke glass. And overall, you just kept getting useful stuff as you needed it.

[@Ursi_]

Yeah, I’m seeing a lot of people say this is easy but I’ve been stuck on it for several days now, looks like it just requires a lot of luck :/

[@peekoo6360]

​@@Ursi_I got really really lucky and got like 15 of red seal glass aces and my final hand eas like 70 million and that was like 30 minutes of attempts total

[@Ursi_]

@@peekoo6360 Ok

[@admiralsap]

I can't lie, you discarding a Steel 10 but keeping the Purple Seal + Steel Jack in your hand at 16:00 made me unreasonably upset...

[@1TieDye1]

Or not using the bonus chip 9 at 17:19...

[@VodShod]

tried this run like 20 times. Still haven't beat it It is a bit irritating when I keep trying to retry, but it throws me into a regular deck. I wish they would just make the challenge you are currently on as default when you start a new run. Right now it is like having it always default to red deck when you are trying to beat a game on Zodiac deck.

[@VodShod]

Wow! I did it. I ended up going for 8s instead of 9s I just used the first strength I had on 2 7s and kept getting more 8s. I used a lot of death to make copies and gave them all mult, since that seemed to be the best thing for this challenge. I also got a good number from the card packs. I destroyed a handful of non-8s and I got a red stamped card and gave it steel, then copied it with death. I grabbed as many 5 of a kind as I could, and I avoided going below 25 gold as much as possible, and I had the same exact final boss blind and reroll situation. I also skipped the big blind since I thought I didn't want to screw up, it would have just been another chance to fail. I had a couple of gold cards in my deck to keep my gold high enough, I would always grab one if it is in the shop so I could use it right before my final hand of the round, since they pay for themselves.

[@themobius5798]

29:00 When you had to face Verdant Leaf in Jokerless challenge (until it's not)

[@camzeee840]

The most important thing to get on this challenge is Paintbrush. Without it, you're toast.

[@zachooo45]

The heart attack I had seeing Verdant leaf. Can’t even imagine what happened to you when seeing that 😂

[@GodChaos333]

Thank you so much! Watching those made me realize the absolute value of glass. I finally beat this after 3 days of trying. I got a red seal glass 4, and I death, and cryptid spectral card that, I had to prey so many times for them to not break. Only 2 broke on me. I had like 8 of them and rush skipped 7 and 8 ante, it won,

[@LocusNevernight]

That heart run was devastating to watch live. Good shit man!!

[@KiiroSagi]

I had the same idea but I used flush as my hand. The ramp ultimately wasn't strong enough, but it's good to see that I wasn't far off, strategically.

[@ennio110]

the amount of luck on this run is so insane it makes me feel like its seeded or modded what the hell

[@ennio110]

can confirm after attempting this all evening, this video is fake

[@coolioman9073]

Balatro videos make me realise how long Balatro runs actually last

[@000Makx000]

Одно из самых лёгких испытаний. Прошёл с пятого раза. Даже без спектральных карт (просто довёл количество тузов до 11). Из 6 стеклянных карт разбилась только одна

[@jdmhexagon2584]

Great run and great video! Unlocked this Challenge two days ago, it's punishing. I'll get it, though.

[@Daniel-sz3un]

I got pretty lucky with this one, took a couple of hours for the right setup. I had nine 7s and twelve Qs, six steels, four glass cards, and a death + justice by the end. Four of a kind goes insane, even without telescope I had it at lvl 17. Also having both vouchers that increased hand size helped a lot. Amber Acorn at the end was the cherry on top.

[@Turkos245]

this run is brutal lmao, i thought inflation was rough but this one has been rocking me

[@eldarmasterjoe]

love the webcam addition

[@dd303project2]

Watching this made me think this challenge was a breeze. Copied your exact strategy and have failed 60+ times, not even getting close.

[@GothicLordUK]

I hope you find your win soon!

[@dd303project2]

@GothicLordUK IDID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! kept following your method and eventually got some decent luck. Now just Golden Needle and Cruelty to get....

[@GothicLordUK]

@@dd303project2 congratulations!!! Those last two are also toughies!

[@Hybban]

I saw a couple of the early runs during the stream. I'm not particularly eager to try this one.

[@GavinBisesi]

Great run

[@madisonking8057]

Do this with black deck on gold difficulty

[@GrazQuaglini]

So why did you choose the 9 initially?

[@GothicLordUK]

Timestamp?

[@GrazQuaglini]

@@GothicLordUK Oh lol i missed that one play. Now it all makes sense xD

[@zetset8098]

Still not get good spirit pack...

[@RetroCandyArt]

they should really ban the hone and blank vouchers on this challenge too

[@zhengfang3619]

who said there is no joker? why a jimbo is there then?

[@BoyUutGrunn]

WP

[@CyanTorpedo]

Hey, I Have A Challenge For You! You Must Play Every Round, You Must Pick Up All Packs (Including Skip Tag Packs) And Use Them, And Finally, The Most Difficult Part, You Must Sell A Joker EVERY NEW ANTE. Good Luck! (2nd Time Asking)

[@rubenvanderark4960]

Every round requires a played hand to score points, packs are a good thing, with some builds it's beneficial to play less rounds so skipping can be beneficial, if he can do joker-less, he can do joker-fewer