Balatro Daily ep54: How to beat Jokerless Challenge 

Every celestial pack was Saturn or Neptune without telescope. The level of getting away with it is off the charts for the Dr

For anyone in the comments wondering, he does indeed continue to get away with it

True mastery, in an accessible, think-aloud format. You are a true gem in the Balatro community.

33:40 I think my heart actually stopped.

The Professor brought his own telescope from home for this one

Busted out the calculator, respect

Just watched Enkk's VOD and saw you were doing this full time now and wanted to show my support and gratitude for the great content in a small way! Hope there are more ways for us to support you in the future! ... Twitch subs? :) keep it up!

The reroll at the final boss just to flex on us 😂😂😂

I've been grinding this challenge out and literally just did as I started watching this, what a rush. Can't thank you enough for all your advice!

Want to say - studied this video a few hours and thought it was incredibly useful! Won today with many thanks to this guide. Mine wasn’t as smooth as this run - (over-reliance on devil (gold) and justice (glass) due to a lack of Saturn/Neptunes. The biggest switch for me was calculating hands (big difference) and riding your one-shot wins as long as possible to build up an economy. Oh, and good boss luck (: Great stuff!

Thanks professor! A perfect birthday gift, I can finally put jokerless to bed!

Absolute baller intro starting with a naneinf score in the background

I've tried this challenge maaany times and failed. Yesterday night I watched this video @ bed, today I got it literally first time. Thank you very much, this was very helpful! I was approaching this the wrong way, going mainly for arcanas to get +mult/glass trying to 1shot the first blinds to get money. The going for planets 1st approach was way better. Also I got very lucky with the vouchers (+1 hand, and the two +discard ones) and a blue seal early on. When I got to straight flushes I was able to fish for the blue seal every time and kept growing it.

beat this today with help from your collection of videos. while most challenges took 1 or 2 tries, this one took dozens. if you did this in 1 take then you are truly the balatro of universities.

Thanks a lot for sharing that strategy! Helped a lot!

Finally beat this. Thanks for the help Balatro university. Now on to winning on gold stake for all decks

Great job! I just finished this challenge myself on the new update. I ended up using full houses with straights as my backup. They don’t scale as well as the better hand types, but I got lucky because I was able to death a couple of red seal cards. Thanks for the tips as always!

love the ante 9 naninf spoiler

Took a solid two dozen tries today, but I finally made Jokerless happen. In the end I did it on plain straight, no flush. Multiple immolates really came through for me. 35-40 card deck is so much easier to draw hands in.

I absolutely love your videos and you’ve helped me improve so much in this game! I just wonder why you enhance certain cards such as the 10 over the Jack when the Jack would give more chips. I’m sure you have a reason so I’d love to hear why! Thanks!

not as much of a speech today! run starts at 2:02

I havent had a chance to try the challenge yet but its good to know some general strategy whenever i get to it

I leaned in to the deck manipulation to go for quads/quints after an early strength card. A few too many rounds needed all my discards + hands to find the hand, so probably it was not a reliable enough strategy for the midgame. I did get Verdant Leaf though to nullify all my edition/enhanced 8s and had to play 3 quints for 99k and thankfully still one quads to finish. 21/40 cards were 8s.

I wonder if he gets away with it this time

11:00 can't believe he didn't take temperance /j

What was the run in the back at the start? Naneif before endless?

tnx. didnt realise how powerfull planet cards are

I find the intro starting on the zodiac deck to be very funny. I’m imagining that you were gonna do another fake jokerless challenge using it, before realizing that that’d be nearly the same as the actual thing.

Given that you say you don't feel it was an oversight, but an easter egg for him to include the two common jokers tag, why do you think that is? Just as an Easter egg or a bit of a goal/reward work toward maybe?

Great, now that i beat this on 1.0.1 update using blue seal and 50+ flush hand lvls, you finally release this. Haha

I just beat this challenge after nearly 2 weeks of attempts, about 5 or 6 runs came very close but lost in the final boss blind (mainly due to horrible modifiers) my main piece of advice for people struggling: AIM FOR BLUE SEAL CARDS AND POWERLEVEL STRAIGHTS WITH THEM they will carry you and snowball you into having a shot at clearing the 8th ante, the telescope vouchers (especially the second one) help too

i recently beat the challenge itself, i got an early Oijua i believe it is called making a ton of 8’s in my deck, and i got a telescope, observatory, paintbrush, and palette, which let me get through the first couple antes and buy packs to make lucky, steel, and glass cards to use. was genuinely easier than gold stake but still ridiculously lucky

35:47 What does that mean? Do they affect each other in some way? If you have the card in your inventory, does it not spawn in the packs/shop? Are mult and chip bonus effects on cards not really worth it here? I'm currently trying to beat this challenge and I usually shove my cards full of mult/chip effects.

Shouldn’t you prioritize converting making 5s and 10s of your preferred suit if you’re going for straights/straight flush? Since 1 of those numbers are in every straight

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What is your success rate for the jokerless challenge

Big blind ante 6 almost felt like me playing gold stake last boss for 1st time. I accidently playwd Pair instead of High Card and lost... Got it 2runs later luckily:)

he keeps getting away with it Edit: I saw the thumbnail and thought this was Zodiac Deck, opening didn't help (no earbuds rn) but this is the actual challenge wth

hey bro can u do an intro lecture to random matrix theory maybe on a alt channel thanks man

My strategy was opening standard packs and resetting if I don't get broken cards lol. I think the new easy Strat in the new patch will be getting blue seals in standard packs and playing straights.

Anyone else swap the Discard and Play Hand buttons? Just want to make sure I'm not weird. Thanks!

33:56 noooo 😂😭

wait how would you have beaten the verdant leaf? 620*47 is 29'140, so you would've needed 4 straight flushes

Why do you make your steel cards part of your straight flushes like the 9/10 of spades? They’re at cross purposes because you want to play them in a straight flush but you want to hold them in hand for steel bonus

damn I still can't get past ante 5 😭

I beat this challenge by playing five of a kind. I believe it was better than straights before the patch, but with the patch I would have gone exactly as you (straights -> straight flushes)

I finally had a decent run, ante 7 got The Wall and barely survived, ante 8 got The Violet Vessel and didn't even come close...

That first celestial pack dictated the entire run

30:37 is there some hidden mechanic that causes you to have a higher chance of neptune? I figured it would be better to hold the saturn so there are less planets in your pack

Leaving Temperance in the arcana deck is just rude.

*Casually shows naneinf before endless* Today we are doing jokerless challenge What?

Just beat Jokerless with 4 million points with red seal glass + flush telescope!

double perkeo sextuple barons huh...

22:46 He can, in fact, keep getting away with it.

Ok but what about jokerless gold stake

So weird to me that all the other joker related stuff is banned but Temperance and Wheel of Fortune stay in the pool as a low roll

Was this your first attempt?

Wheel of fortune should probably be banned from this challenge when you can't even get jokers?

Jokerless was second try for me, by far the easiest challenge. Pales in comparison to the likes of the omelette

heavily carried by luck on this one

But I already beat jokerless

im devasteated, every other challenge you do incorectly, but you dont get a joker in the jokerless challenge, how could u

Make sure you play on the current beta branch if you’re able to, Verdant Leaf (all cards disabled til a joker sold) is removed as a possible final boss blind, among other changes (straight scaling being buffed) makes the challenge far less painful

Please stop saying “like this”

If you got the antimatter voucher would there even be a way to get a joker?