What if All 52 Cards in Your Balatro Deck were the Same?

[@Aksuloid]

Hi, Im the guy who discovered the seed, thank you for showcasing it, I haven't actually seen it been played on gold stake yet! And yes, the deck is indeed caused by a bug in how erratic decks are generated, so anyone who wants to try it out, should do so sooner rather than later, as I so fully expect this to get patched. Nice video, and glad to see my find doing the rounds!

[@themobius5798]

Out of curiosity, did you discover the seed naturally, or do you handcraft it, possibly with tools like Seed searcher named "Immolate"?

[@Aksuloid]

@@themobius5798 I did use immolate to search for the seed, yes. The filter I used is posted on the immolate channel on the official balatro discord.

[@KaliAlkali]

@@themobius5798They said they found it with Immolate in the discord, but that's not really "handcrafting" the seed. I don't know what you mean by that.

[@MegaMeister123]

I'm very confused why this is a bug seed. Isn't the deck rolling what kind of card it should get for each "card slot" aka 13^52?

[@Aksuloid]

@@MegaMeister123 Well first of all, thats already an insanely low chance, but that only accounts for the rank, not the suit of the card. But miniscule possibility doesn't inherently mean bugged, you are correct in that. The reason we know for a fact, is because MathIsFun, the wonderful maintainer of the software we use to search for specific seeds, dove into the game code, and basically traced how the games seeded rng generated this deck. He found that at some point in the process, the rng system for this seed generates an invalid value (NaN for you programmers), and this causes the deck to be all ten of spades.

[@darksentinel082]

18:11 “I think we hold the 10 for now. The uh. The glass 10”

[@ryancoles8160]

Which glass 10?

[@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj]

@@ryancoles8160The one I put here. [10 ♠️♠️♠️♠️♠️♠️♠️♠️♠️♠️ 0✔️]

[@JJ_cooks]

cool pfp :3 ​@@ryancoles8160

[@chrodeadman]

​@ryancoles8160 THE glass 10.

[@parallelogrum7967]

What card counting in blackjack must feel like:

[@speenta4879]

As someone who does card count, it feels like playing a value trade deck in magic the gathering, you are constantly losing but you know that in the long run you will come out on top

[@raviosolaire]

the dono saying they dont kmow poker and cant enjoy balatro.. i dont know poker, but the game gives you the little cheat sheet explaining the hands, and it shows you what hand youll be playing as you select cards. i sometimes forget a card to play a straight and that helps me out a lot! the game tries to be as clear as possible for the base mechanics and i think it does that really well. cheers ^-^

[@justsomenerd284]

surely the best possible joker for this deck is Idol no? It can literally only boost cards in your deck, Thats a 32X multiplier, and with Showman or Ankh, in total its a 1024X multiplier.

[@Nasa-cosmonaut]

Yes, played idol on this deck and got up to ante 16. With lots of steels. Doesn't seem to have any spectral packs though.

[@dbear7717]

You should see RTgame play this deck lmao

[@rkidy]

2:55 “we just want money and more shops” *proceeds to skip over an egg and seed money in ante 3*

[@millermiller3439]

fr though. I was so confused.

[@JarvisBaileyVA]

Like bro why did he do that? 😂😭

[@jamespilgrim3774]

​@@JarvisBaileyVAnever question the streamer his comprehension is beyond our grasp

[@lokkol49]

I think the payoff would be too slow

[@ZeroCrystal]

Always question the streamer. Financial opportunity ignored is a good way to catch someone out.

[@lukehb]

I’m not saying it’s NOT a bug in the pseudo-random code - it seems to be - but what people forget is that this deck is exactly equally as possible as any other. If the seed generator was truly random, with enough possible seeds, it’s not only likely, but inevitable that we will find decks like this. And remember, it’s not like someone stumbled upon this deck, in play, it was found specifically by search tools.

[@franslair2199]

1) it's not physically possible for all decks to be equally likely because there's not enough seeds for all of them 2) you're overcompensating here. Your normal erratic deck is not going to be very notable, and it wouldn't change too much if seven of the queens you got there were any other suit. It's not like anyone posts seeds where like 40 of the deck are the same card. It's always 52.

[@SlightSmile]

The odds of all cards being the same is 52^51. I haven't run the math, but if it were truly random the odds of one of the seeds corresponding to a uniform deck is very low

[@DrippiBean]

@@SlightSmile but not impossible

[@fieldrequired283]

​@@DrippiBean There are things so unlikely that you should consider them impossible for all relevant purposes in our universe.

[@theguy3406]

It's estimated there are 10^78-10^82 atoms in the universe. 52^51 is 3 × 10^87.

[@shroomer3867]

The boss which disables spades: "Hello :D"

[@MarkoIronFist]

Good thing this seed doesn;t have that boss.

[@darkdjinniumbrage7798]

The Eye: "M'lady"

[@reidmessenger8099]

@MarkoIronfist WRONG at ante 13 the goad is there

[@ianmartin9354]

@@reidmessenger8099good thing about goad only rearing its head at ante 13 in this seed is you have the chance to get both directors cut and retcon before you have to think about it.

[@reidmessenger8099]

@@ianmartin9354But not infinite money to get like plant so it doesn’t affect you

[@MANFAIC]

3:28 You want the hanged man, brother. Hung man means something else. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[@kat_stuff2]

thsts.... the joke?

[@MANFAIC]

@@kat_stuff2 Yes, yes it is.

[@ChaseChippy]

Yeah he calls it the Hanging Chad later on 😂

[@als.8327]

@ChaseChippy hanging chad is the ballot joker

[@ChaseChippy]

@@als.8327 yeah I was playing earlier today and noticed that lmao. Whoooops

[@Shiniandkutie]

52 tens of spades in a deck is 1 out of 170,676,555,274,132,171,974,277,914,691,501,574,771,358,362,295,975,962,674,353,045,737,940,041,855,191,232,907,575,296 possible decks. the seed needed to get this would be very very long. it would be longer still to have the perfect joker on turn 1.

[@Bearshere]

The seed needed to get this doesn't need to be long at all. That's not how seeded generation works. You can look up the seed for this run online it's 7lb2wvpk

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

That's going at it kinda backwards. That's true but all the other decks in the ≈3 trillion possible seeds are also literally the same odds. A deck of scrambled cards is 1 in 52^52 just like a deck of 10 of Spades is 1 in 52^52. It's not even impossible that it could have ended up in that subset of around 3 trillion random seeds, because it's not any more or less random than any other combination. We just give it special attention because the entropy of the values is different. Yes it's still a code bug, but it's still not impossible either. In fact there are 52 ways for a deck to have all cards the same, because there are 52 unique cards. So I guess the odds of a deck having all cards being the same card are actually 52 in 52^52. Still not good, but it's better. Pick up a piece of sand. Is it impossible that you picked up that piece of sand? Think of how many grains of sand there are on Earth, the odds of you picking up that specific piece of sand are impossible. So how did you pick it up? The question doesn't make sense, because that's not how you selected the sand grain. That almost gets into some Schrodinger's Cat territory when you think about it.

[@CapArchy]

​@@hedgeearthridge6807this is distinctly unlikely, if you plot the average generated deck after a 1 million sample size or more, you most likely won't have even gotten this deck but even if you did it would be at a far extreme of standard deviation. More importantly, there is only one way this can happen, when all cards generate as ten of spades. A deck that is 51 ten of spades, but with 1 ten of diamonds, could happen 52 different ways, by having the 10 of diamonds generate in any of the 52 available slots. Repeat cards are distinctly less likely than unique ones, and when brought to an extreme like this it's like flipping heads on a quarter 52 times in a row, but that quarter also has 51 other sides it could land on. It's nothing like the sand analogy.

[@jamesryan4335]

In case anyone is curious, 8 months later and this still works. It's a fun way to kill 30min lol

[@nexusone5955]

God damn it, you've lead me from wizard poker to acid poker and I can't stop.

[@GaussianEntity]

This is why you gotta know when to hold 'em, and when to fold 'em. No seriously, I haven't touched this game because it's addictive af and I've just been watching them.

[@ThePhaseMaster]

Wait, Wizard poker??

[@thefidgetspinnerofdoom]

Why didn't he buy the egg at 3:43? He has enough money for max interest, and even if he keeps the egg for only 2 rounds, that's still a net profit.

[@phantom-ri2tg]

I was wondering that too. Also the interest voucher with how long he sat over 20.

[@ras0k]

Temperance goes hard with the egg also

[@xRhychux]

He was blind

[@SchmavidSchmobb]

This is really cool- not trying to backseat, roffle is so much better at balatro than I am… but I am surprised he passed on the interest and the hand size vouchers… without hack or sock in play, I would imagine you’d want a big hand to allow for future ectoplasms to get as many jokers as possible… but I trust the master’s thought process!

[@phoenixcrown9966]

Not to mention taking Green Joker when he could have reached ante 8 without it. Beyond that, he'd want to focus on hand size.

[@clabu8403]

Constellation was crazy to not take imo, he would be buying planets anyway

[@BDD_c2bn]

Yep. Since he is playing the same hand every time anyway, green joker would always be worse since he got constellation earlier. And since it was eternal, he was locked in. Skipping seed money is also insane.

[@mickeyqtip7918]

Hearing you talk about needing money and how Hanging Chad could be an interesting play and then throwing them both away hurt me deeply

[@TheOneWhoReportsForDuty]

This seed seems like one of those seeds that you will get as a "World Record 10 of Spades Run" video titles.

[@shybandit521]

I think it would be funny if you found Madness with the eternal walkie talkie, and then the walkie talkie functions as the chip and mult engine that then gets boosted by Madness

[@entr3_nou5]

“Oh wow, a whole deck of spades! This will be unstoppable!” *The humble Goad boss blind:* 😈

[@cardmagician2093]

3:28 “1 in 7 cards get drawn face down” oh no whatever will he do

[@KingdomKey-ik4xk]

I definitely would've gone Hanging Chad. And since it now retriggers the first played card twice instead of once, you'd have been getting a much higher mult, and may have been able to keep the run going at least until Ante 12.

[@switchedup5834]

I was thinking the same shit... Today's Roffle would've never passed up on a Chad 😅

[@snyderplayz9442]

and he took the banner instead of it for plus 60 chips instead of the chad that would at minimum give him +20 chips and +8 mult with the walkie talky assuming the cards weren't enhanced. I was screaming watching him skip it 😭

[@vader9133]

if you reroll a few times on round 6 shop theres a blackboard, and on round 10 theres a foil brainstorm

[@stagelights_]

9:38 "another hung man" is a some very funny phrasing

[@Cpt.Croissant]

3:50 what was the benefit in skipping instead of choosing a random one if it didn't matter what he chose

[@bahadirkeles.]

29:10 you could reroll the boss 🥶🥶

[@Tarkavor]

Why is no one mentioning how expensive the booster packs are? What the heck.

[@elmifysam]

This was pre-patch gold stake, used to make packs more expensive

[@Pro-Tayto]

"Thats a hung man" killed me.

[@retronymph]

Would love to see a run back of this, especially on current patch where booster packs don't kill your economy.

[@CottonCandyCrisis17]

why skip hanging chad at 5:15 ? You took +80 chips over +40 chips and +8 mult- and that's the lowest hanging chad could potentially get

[@conneruzelac3373]

I agree, lots of missed things in this run

[@vendanger]

This video is 8 months old lol, it was made before the hanging chad buff

[@slartistream4184]

Why did he skip the celestial pack at 3:52? I've been taking planets even if I don't need them, is that a bad idea?

[@zanmato3103]

Here Roffle hasn't used any tarot/planets yet (I believe) so could have taken one without downside but he was basically saving time - he will realistically never play those hands because of the all-10-of-spades-deck. But when you are playing you should consider skipping because you might get a Fool card soon - if your last used card would be more valuable for you to get again than a random planet that your run is not built towards, it might be best to skip. Most of the time you're not going to hurt yourself by taking a planet, it's just min-maxing.

[@BoltGamr]

Imagine finding the Idol on this seed. That would be nuts

[@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj]

Basically becomes: Every round, you get a 1 in 52 chance to get every card to get x2 Mult.

[@matthewfullhart9187]

Just played a run of this on mobile and got an idol. It procs every time because idol checks your deck and chooses a card at random from your deck. Insanely good, I was instantly making 1000 times my score beforehand.

[@StevenMurrayDebate]

Feels bad coming back to this video in Nov '24. I'm currently hitting over a billion in ante 7 with Idol and Mail-in Rebate and Blueprint making me over $200 a round.

[@d0onut]

Idk why it cracked me up when you tried to sort by rank and then by suit on ante 10

[@Ghost10221987]

The way he slept on glass cards for mult cards had me scratching my head. My best run i was getting e11 with high cards using glass cards

[@polocatfan]

I'm surprised this isn't a challenge honestly. Like make every card an Ace of the same suit.

[@Venezuela386]

Green joker was pretty bad :(

[@animeguy2356]

yeah, I think green joker is a bit of a trap, doesn't scale up nearly as fast as you need it to for endless

[@Alphabetatralala]

Atrocious is the word you're looking for.

[@dan200smx7]

Had to get rid of supernova, which is just green joker that let's you discard, when you can play flush 5 every turn

[@JB-xl2jc]

I honestly think the +1 mult per hand/round jokers need some serious buffs. There are a few builds where they work but in the majority of situations they get heavily outperformed and its not particularly close.

[@Alphabetatralala]

@@JB-xl2jc Wait, there ARE build where this work ?

[@Those_Weirdos]

I would love to hear more about the thought process in some situations - Like why not play High Card, Pair, Two Pair to get more hands to level up Green Joker so long as you have the hands to fuel it and survive? But , I'm sure I'd get that analysis watching gameplay tip videos instead of actual gameplay videos too.

[@WackoMcGoose]

"Oops! All 10s!" "Sir, you can't have a 10 on a d6." "Fortune Street rolls 7s on a d6... So does the final boss of Dicey Dungeons."

[@magnusokissen]

The slowdown play at 21:55 got me

[@yoancampion9836]

Imagine if you had the burnt joker for this seed. The run would never end.

[@roses10k]

why do you need that many shovels if it isn't your grave?

[@simonced]

I was wondering if putting "card sharp" on the left so it would trigger twice with "brainstorm" could have helped...

[@level3xfactor]

the seed doesn't work. does it just not work for mobile?

[@facade11663]

You better pray to god that the next boss blind doesn't debuff that card.😂

[@cowboybarbaryn1302]

I really hope this doesn’t get patched or at least that it gets implemented properly. Like there’s a variant for each card type of thing. Mostly cuz despite being a bug it doesn’t really harm anything and it seems really silly and fun. I hope it sticks around long enough for me to unlock the erratic deck. (Red steak is as high as I’ve been and only on checkered. Started playing a few days ago)

[@Kaysler]

I would enjoy seeing you revisit this seed now.

[@devindipalma9861]

Sadly doesn’t work anymore after the most recent patch

[@myrimu9829]

@@devindipalma9861 Worked fine for me today!

[@omegahaxors9-11]

10 is the worst because it's the hardest possible card to strength up for Cloud 9.

[@trutwhut6550]

Watching the other vids with the seed, buying the first showman would've let you get 1 extra 10'4

[@master_marcellus]

When bro gets the boss that disables spades be like: Why are we just here, Just to suffer

[@neonlline]

So the math behind that seed is like roughly 1/52^51.. pretty lucky

[@Benevolent_sociopath]

It's not lucky, it's impossible. Has to be a bug.

[@Bob_Bobinson]

​@@Benevolent_sociopathit's not completely impossible just extremely improbable

[@KaliAlkali]

It is a bug! The 10 of spades is the final entry in an internal list that the game references to build the erratic deck list, and that seed returns the maximum value repeatedly, so it returns the final entry on the list. Ironically because there's only 8 characters possible in the seed 1-9, A-Z, the chances of generating a full erratic deck of the same card even at all within the entire seed-space possible is such a tiny probability as to be functionally impossible with a truly random generation algorithm.

[@blue17echo]

@@Bob_Bobinson fyi 52^51 is ~3*10^87, i.e. 30 million times as large as the number of atoms in the observable universe.

[@shroomer3867]

I mean, it's not like he got the seed on his run, it was specifically found for this, so while the chance is low, if there's someone determined enough they can find seeds like this. I know that the chance is so exteremly low it's improbable to find it even if you try, but after seeing videos where people find the Minecraft image seed using graphics cards, and considering that GPUs are getting faster with AI, well maybe it's possible to find stuff like this now.

[@thiagoalves2510]

WHAT HOW LONG I'VE BEEN SLEEPING? WHERES THE V NECK

[@phillipjones1536]

it's been 20 years

[@martinferrand4711]

20 years and a month

[@killustrator]

What is the music from at the end of the video? Definitely a game I played before

[@tonyt9850]

Seems like you could have been discarding the plain 10s more often in hopes to find the buffed ones. I didn’t see any specific spot where it cost you a hand, but it could have on a luckier draw. The discards weren’t doing anything for you so why not use them?

[@unsaltedhoagie8484]

After purchasing a celestial pack, what’s the logic behind not picking a planet card at all? It doesn’t hurt

[@PandamoniumBruu]

Yeah, I was thinking the same...

[@miha9038]

Can someone explain why the banana was a better choice, than the joker that scaled with your most played hand? I don’t get it ( like clearly xinf scaling is better than x3 no?)

[@miha9038]

I think I got it, supernova adds the mult number, but the banana x3 the mult, so it’s more in the end

[@girahimeslord6103]

Where the idol joker ??

[@MadSociety-uy6zg]

You should try a deck full of either aces or kings,queens, and Jack's.

[@haunter6682]

What's this Flush Five combo? I'm playing a slightly older build of Balatro and I don't have it in my combo cheat sheet. Was it introduced in an update at some point? Is it a secret combo, like the royal flush?

[@snackplaylove]

Secret Combo play one to see it in the stats. Think there are three ‘secret’ hands in total.

[@haunter6682]

@@snackplaylove Thanks!

[@JB-xl2jc]

Flush Five, Flush House, and Five of a Kind I think. I might be forgetting some

[@Shiniandkutie]

why dont you use planet cards just to use it?

[@DLo44]

and the crowd goes mild!

[@starshieldnightpone5636]

You should have discarded there for a chance to draw the 10 of Spades.

[@Solrex_the_Sun_King]

At which moment? Yes

[@PopcornMax179]

I don't believe the odds. This had to be intentionally put in by Localthunk

[@myithspa25]

Something changed in an update since then, the cards are still the same but the shop is different so we can't follow your run anymore.

[@mccordc073]

Does anyone know why when I put this seed in it just starts a new normal game? I'm on mobile if that makes a difference

[@mccookies3664]

if you’re not using the erratic deck, it won’t work properly. i don’t remember exactly how to unlock that one, but i think you get it by winning a gold stake run?

[@davidbanan.]

5:50 "It's a hung man" 💀

[@TrimutiusToo]

I doubt it is a bug, especially with walkie talkie... I would think it is an easter egg...

[@phantom-ri2tg]

Why didn't you get the egg or interest voucher? They would have easily paid for themselves.

[@qbertsandy1367]

Alternative version: *it’s time to go to infinity* With some funny rng and having the exact amount with all kings and the cryptic making it so you can surpass hand space You can go to infinity(or as high as thr number will show,which is naninf)

[@turnermarius4471]

Vampire Joker would've been op and more x Jokers

[@PricklyBehr]

A bug would be if this type of seed was happening with higher than normal occurrences. By definition the randomness the Erratic Deck offers you would be bound to bump into at least one seed that gives you all of one type of card so long as seeds generate with at least 52^52 possible variations. They don't, seeing as they're stuck with a finite number of letters (26). If Balatro seeds had 63 possible letters there would be enough seeds to force (at minimum) every possible deck state Erratic could ever have

[@kabobawsome]

No, it's just a bug, this seed would be so incredibly rare that it's virtually impossible. The odds of a deck like this (all identical cards) occurring at all in the list of possible is something like 8.6e-76% chance if my math is correct. Plus we know roughly how it works. Something about the way the seed is handled causes it to return NaN, and the game defaults to a 10 of Spades.

[@PricklyBehr]

@@kabobawsome I literally said it should be possible in a true random game. You'd need roughly a 63 character long seed for it to be possible to get all 10 of spades sans bug.

[@alternatejamey4050]

I saw that numbers are also allowed in seeds, so that bumps down the required number of character slots down at least a little bit, I think

[@NatalieExists]

this type of seed happening even once is much, much higher than chance would suggest

[@mrigtp0529]

Could "Ride The Bus" be viable for this?

[@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo]

Of course some hands will look like this when they're randomly generated. That's the nature of randomisation.

[@garethrns]

Great video! 10/10

[@chrisgarrett898]

I entered the seed, but it doesn't give me the all ten deck... what

[@cyanthrope]

you're sure you're using the right deck?

[@chrisgarrett898]

@@cyanthrope yup. Dleverthing is correct amd it doesn't work.

[@Scragg-]

Sounds like a 10-4 situation

[@jesse1375_]

"i want more money" proceeds to skip over seed money, egg, and clearance

[@j-kreed4419]

I also forgot about popcorn's existence.

[@thelyric2751]

Hey, I'm probably missing something, why are his booster packs so expensive in this run?

[@pip2162]

If I had to guess its because of Gold stake but I havent gotten that far in my game yet so not sure

[@matthewfullhart9187]

One of the high stakes used to make packs super expensive. This got changed a while back.

[@amykemp8925]

I picked the Showman and ended up getting double walkie. Was it needed to win? No. Was it fun? Absolutely

[@TunaBear64]

Dude, the fact a seed like this exists isnt surprising, but THIS SHORT?!? I calculated, and the odds of that happening is 1 in 1 quattuorvigintillion Thats a 1 follwed by 75 zeros. SEVENTY FIVE

[@demonlordrimuru2520]

The idol makes it ridiculous, that and mail-in rebate

[@susamogus8331]

Well then you should discard your hand

[@moontan91]

mwahahaha! : ))

[@StarPointy]

​@@moontan91Nice pfp

[@moontan91]

the secret with this deck is to use your Discards early on.

[@KhyrosFinalCut]

The "Spade Cards are debuffed" boss just ends this run right?

[@dr.blockcraft6633]

Boss bluff Rerolls

[@Milkyishim]

bro once i was playing a high chip run and i got 400$ and was gonna spam the reroll then got using high card sets money to 0 and i couldnt win without it

[@snowingkiller0924]

5:16 hold on if you used ballot wouldn’t that have just given you +40 chips and +8 mult instead of only +40. Why not take ballot

[@Dominion69420]

A seed of this but with 9s and cloud 9:

[@LTDextel]

Oops, all 10 of spades! 🤪

[@PSspecialist]

Why the banana to the left?

[@JaykTheJackal]

If you win, you don't lose. I think that's fair to say.

[@JaykTheJackal]

That said obviously the problem was the lack of pants.

[@Kirusdagon]

as of december 2024, seed still works haha

[@kendrakirai]

Either I'm doing something wrong, or the seed has been replaced with proper generation.

[@DouglasFish]

first seed, fun!

[@billiamswartz2355]

Imagine getting idol with this seed, that would be nuts

[@reidmessenger8099]

I did

[@reidmessenger8099]

But then got fucked at ante 13 by goad

[@MrJeha95]

Why did he reroll boss blind :(

[@RoderickEtheria]

Each card is as unlikely as any other. There's no difference in the odds of getting 52 10s of spades to getting 51 10s of spades and then the 52nd being an Ace of Diamonds.

[@macsburke271]

This is only true if the order of the cards matters. If order doesn’t matter, it’s much more likely to get 51 10’s of Spades and 1 King of Spades than 52 King of Spades

[@RoderickEtheria]

@macsburke271 exactly 52 times as likely if ordering doesn't matter.

[@kallixo]

woops! all flush fives!

[@cargnome]

Passed on clearance sale??? I know it affects cards, but it also affects packs, my guy. Intentionally skipped it each time. Am I missing something?

[@Toprak135]

10 of Spades.

[@aliasnando]

Wtf jokers order affects the points count?

[@stargate525]

Absolutely. They trigger from left to right. So anything multiplicative you want at the end of the line so it multiplies everything.

[@joshuawittenberg8975]

Idol stocks found to be soaring by 2^5