just wanna win one game :(

[Crews]

any tips on what jokers to use, i dont know if im bad or have dog water rng or what but i literally cant get past ante 7. I tried doin flush decks and other stuff but something always goes wrong in every run and im malding

[imaloony]

Flush synergy is the easiest to build around. Using Tarot cards to ditch cards of the suit you don't want, make wild cards, and transform cards into the suit you want. I really can't stress enough how important using Tarots are. Then use Flush synergy Jokers to combo out. X Mults are also very good.

Making sure your economy is online is also important. Make sure you can build up as much gold as possible in the early game so you have the money to play with your build in the late game.

I also want to recommend Gros Michel as a Joker. +15 is a good mult for a common Joker, and while the 1-in-4 chance to blow up looks bad, you actually WANT it to be destroyed. Once it gets destroyed (NOT Sold. Important distinction), the Cavendish Joker is unlocked for the rest of the run and can appear in the shop. Cavendish has a X3 Multiplier and only a 1-in-1000 chance of being destroyed. It's really good in almost every build.

[The Sylvan Learning Center]

im sure flush builds are good but I dont see how they are the easiest to build. I have never played a flush and I've nearly won 3x with simpler hand builds

[Zeks]

flushes are your way out of ante 1 where you don't yet have a mult joker of a chip joker. once you get those, playing other types of hands is often more profitable

[Black Hammer]

Don't overcommit until you have the tools for it.

Keep an eye out for generally good jokes to carry you through the early game while you put a real build together.

Money is king. Learning to clear the first two or three antes on as little as possible to get your interest going is vital.

Vouchers are nice to have but that $10 early can be a serious blow to your cash flow.

[DeckardTrinity]

I was playing with the first deck (the one that gives +1 discard)... best I could do was boss blind of ante 7, and literally if I had had one more hand I would've beaten it.

Switched to deck 2 (+1 hand), loaded up on mult jokers (had one that gave +15 or so based on sell value of cards to left), and another that I think I had to discard 23 times to unlock X5, plus one that gives lots of chips (or might have been mults, can't remember) on Kings & Queens. Then every time I came across a tarot card that allowed leveling up 1 or 2 cards, I did that for any Jacks (even if just one), and Queens (to get better chances at 4 or 5 of a kind Kings). I did actually hit a 5 of a kind Kings once in the play through. Also did the "convert left card into right" several times. Ended up stacked with Queens & Kings and was hitting the bonus on those almost every hand (discarding to get face cards). And IIRC, I think I hit a card that gave +1 hand so it was like 6 hands per ante, and also +1 hand size toward ante 6 or 7.

With all of that, I _easily_ beat boss on Ante 8 in _one hand_. Went on to play endless to around Ante 11 but then the required score went too high.

All in all, this game still has a great deal of luck, but I think once you unlock enough good jokers and the more rare ones, it's possible to get to Ante 8 and beat it relatively easily.

[LotusBlade]

Game is complicated for newbies, i suggest watching some youtube content creators, maybe guides. Threre are many small things to remember and use constantly in order to win and sometimes luck is just not on your side. You pretty much restart runs until having some good foundation during antes 2-3 and try to unlock jokers. In fact, i would advice just unlocking all cards inside save options and use better decks to get a grip on game, then after learning you can make new save and play normally.

[VastGirth]

First thing you are after is a money maker. Any joker that raises cash will do, if not then you need to rely on interest. You will almost always need to be buying stuff from the shop each turn.

Next prioritise cards that build each turn to maximise the benefit of getting them early on, or any joker that generates other cards.

Then play for a bit and see what jokers you have ended up with and from ante 3/4 onwards try to maximising their potential. You will always need a decent chip and multiplier base. Always be on the lookout for ways to stack x multipliers.

[eddymitchel]

try to be balanced on these variables : x mult, + mult, chip building. Each time I'm unbalanced on that, I stay stuck before anté 5 (example: on my last game, I missed stack some xmult thus wall boss blind destroy me anté 4)

[Kaynos]

Stack Pair or Two Pair Planets. I just won my first game stacking Mercury to 14 times along with Jokers that give coins and mult for playing Pairs and Less than 3 cards.

[Anno the Meerkat]

This Tips also apply to higher stakes(They come from Roffle who beat every Deck on Gold stakes(the highest one):
You dont want your Hand to do the work, but the jokers so:
-Take Jokers early that give Chips and Flat(+) mult to beat early antes take ones that scale with every hand, Decks etc early(like Red Card that gets +3 on every Skipped Pack and scale that)
-Transition into scaling (x) mult for the jokers.
-For the first win(s) Flush is pretty easy to build but doesnt skale into the higher stakes, so if you want to practise for them aswell try going for pair(s) high card builds, as statet earlier, the power comes from the jokers, not the hand.

[Hadley333]

Originally posted by Crews:

any tips on what jokers to use, i dont know if im bad or have dog water rng or what but i literally cant get past ante 7. I tried doin flush decks and other stuff but something always goes wrong in every run and im malding

I won twice so far and I think I'm about 12 hours in. There's def some RNG because my first win was complete luck and I felt unstoppable.

You'll unlock cards that have good synergy. Example on my win last night: I had a joker that gave me extra hands but zero discards. Another joker would add an additional multiplier for every time I didn't discard and -1 for discards. Having that at beginning is a good way to have a powerful multiplier.

[H.]

It will get easier when you unlock more stuff, I have been having success personally by using the early jokers I get to kind of choose the direction i'm going. Its also good as a general rule to have +Chip, +Mult, and xMult jokers. Good luck

[TimTim3000]

Make sure you have at least a couple of x-mult jokers and move them to the right side of your joker stack so that they will act last.

[J4MESOX4D]

Finally got my first win after 22 hours to join the other 75.9%! Had a good selection of jokers working together to help get over the line plus a crucial x-mult which really upped the score. I think I played 32 two pairs and also had a joker which added to the multi how many times that had been played plus another that added 4 chips for every 4 cards played. The rest were all decent multi-based ones and I also was able to level up a couple of hands (straight + two pair) quite a few times.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3186984296
Nothing spectacular compared to others but it's crazy how many times RNG ruined me early on in some runs!

[Goblin]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

Finally got my first win after 22 hours to join the other 75.9%! Had a good selection of jokers working together to help get over the line plus a crucial x-mult which really upped the score. I think I played 32 two pairs and also had a joker which added to the multi how many times that had been played plus another that added 4 chips for every 4 cards played. The rest were all decent multi-based ones and I also was able to level up a couple of hands (straight + two pair) quite a few times.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3186984296
Nothing spectacular compared to others but it's crazy how many times RNG ruined me early on in some runs!

Congrats on the win.
As a hint for future runs: you should've moved that Fortune Teller joker to the right. You lost out on a significant amount of multiplier with the current order, because the Fortune Teller is Polychrome. Right now it's only multiplying the mult from Fortune Teller, Jolly Joker, and your base hand by 1.5x. If it had been on the right it'd also have multiplied the 10 mult from the Holographic joker and however much Supernova gave you.