just got rule breaker

[awalker300]

Been working at this for the past week or so exclusively. As no surprise jokerless was the most challenging. I was able to create some multi aces and a good chunk with additional foil. Had a hand full of steel in the deck but playing 5 of a kind really limits your ability to functionally have more than a few. I think to win jokerless you almost certainly need to play five of a kind or flush five. In addition, i think getting telescope is also critical in order to level up your 5 of a kind. Conversely, if you could manage to get a polychrome card early and start death'ing that a bunch I could see that being a good path too (although you miss out on the nice blue chip scaling). red seal is also ideal, though i didn't get any in my run.

**edit** I forgot to mention - getting some glass cards of your five of a kind is paramount for the later boss blinds. I slowly made a few glass and went into the final round with a glass tarot as back up

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198055278270/screenshot/2449468254332422752/

[malogoss]

GG!

FYI, I did beat it with 4 of a kind and no Telescope. I scored no glass cards through the run, except on the final boss, acorn. The last hand I played was worth 200k chips.

So it seems your theories about the winning conditions for challenge 20 are not the best.

[awalker300]

Originally posted by malogoss:

GG!

FYI, I did beat it with 4 of a kind and no Telescope. I scored no glass cards through the run, except on the final boss, acorn. The last hand I played was worth 200k chips.

So it seems your theories about the winning conditions for challenge 20 are not the best.

nice! what level did you get your 4 of a kind up to? did you get a bunch of foil, polychrome, holographic?

[malogoss]

Ok, turns out it was Heart, not acorn, sorry. All I remembered clearly is that I was a bit lucky to hit a boss that has no effect for that challenge. (so not Bell and Vessel)

Here's a screenshot of the last hand. I don't remember having any poly. Maybe I had foil or holo, I don't remember. 1-2 perhaps? But nothing crazy. As you can see, I had many steel cards. That hand scored 200k

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3197302775

The plan, right from the start, was to go for 4 of a kind. It scales pretty well when levelling up, even when compared to secret hands. Often one more card held in hand (steel) is better than a 5th card played per hand. Plus, it allows you to "discard" one card when playing a hand. You can focus on Mars right from the start, no need to unlock a fancy hand first. As I said, no Telescope, and you can see the hand level. Pretty good, only because of Mars availability.

Even at the end, I was using 3 different ranks for my hands. Though 9's were what I had most of, of those three.