I am very seriously asking. I picked up the game couple of days ago and I've been playing and enjoying it quite a lot. However, I am baffled by the Wheel of Fortune tarrot card. At this point I have unlocked like 80% of the collection and won the game multiple times, I purchased and triggered the card probably close to a hundred times and never saw it trigger. Other luck based cards, even the ones with much smaller odds (the banana joker, for example) work just fine. Is it a prank card made by the developer or something along those lines?
16 Comments
sag@lemm.ee MOD · 21 pts · 1y
No, I have checked source code. We are just unlucky.
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
Hey! How did it go with your Lenny-break? Did the studies work out? Glad to see you back.
Infynis@midwest.social · 18 pts · 1y
Welcome to Balatro! Lol
It really is 1/4, but it's a running joke in the community that Wheel of Fortune never hits
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
It's just rng, I'm afraid. I purchase it often and it procs sometimes.
tschesky@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
Fair enough! Obviously I know its improbable, but not impossible. Seems almost funny, though, so I had to ask!
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Understandable, those odds do seem crazy
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I’ve had it proc 3 times in a row on a run, so I no longer grumble (much) about the games where it never seems to.
lemming741@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
You gotta pay attention cause the Nope is slow, but when it hits, it's so fast I always have to dig through and see which joker got it
rhacer@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
The math is publicly available!
tschesky@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
Looked it up just now, and among other search results I've found other people saying very similar things about a "ridiculously long streak which had them convinced it's something to figure out". I guess I'll keep on trucking and hope for the best!
cowfodder@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Totally random. I've had runs where it never procs, and I had one run where I got it 5 times and it hit 100%.
Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
Most games lie about the % chance of something hitting because of this. Balatro does not lie.
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Humans are just very bad at understanding probability. Having seen a 1/4 fail 10 times does not change the probability for the next roll.
tschesky@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Definitely guilty of that! Gambler's paradox and all!
Korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
Nope!
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Why is 1/4 less likely for wheel of fortune than it is for glass card