Is Wheel of Fortune REALLY 1 in 4?

[May XD]

I pick this card a lot. And I swear, in 30-40 times I picked it, it worked like, 4-5 times.
Something feels off about it, idk :\

[Dick Twister, P.I.]

lol

[Dick Twister, P.I.]

can we keep this thread going

[Lord Haart]

Ace of Bass - "What you gonna tell your dad; it's like a wheel of fortune"

Get that song in ur head and u WON'T get it out. DO IT !!

[c0hKaine]

poison tarot

[fortydayweekend]

How come when it does proc it's always on the worst possible joker

[srn347]

That part is just a skill issue. You're not supposed to have bad/temporary jokers when you use it.

[Twisted Traveller]

Man sounds like y'all complaining just got a skill issue.

[guck nicht]

never worked

[snakeskip]

Originally posted by Ronald Brain:

I think this thread's gone long enough for the nerds and experts to have their opinions, so let's conclude what we knows:
-Code wise, there is no bug. WoF is 1 in 4, so there's a 75% Nope! when you pop a random WoF.

There are known bugs in Balatro's PRNG implementation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmRCC3Q2cns

I don't think these bugs specifically affect the Wheel of Fortune. But it's possible that in some seeds you'll always get Nope.

I extracted the PRNG code of Balatro and ran some simulations with it. See my earlier posts. The code produced 1/4 in all of about a dozen seeds I tested. But there might be seeds where it breaks down.

[Radio Dead]

this thread has shown me why i am where i am in life.

[FNL47]

Originally posted by May XD:

I pick this card a lot. And I swear, in 30-40 times I picked it, it worked like, 4-5 times.
Something feels off about it, idk :\

You are not wrong, I have gone multiple runs without it popping at all I don't even buy it anymore

[malogoss]

All the unluckiest people walking this Earth play this game it seems. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[May XD]

Originally posted by malogoss:

All the unluckiest people walking this Earth play this game it seems. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i picked it 15 times since this thread started, and it worked once (i got so excited! it works! wow!!). it checks out with my experience with this card overall. Success rate for me seems to be 1 in 10, not 1 in 4, and that's being generous

you're free to not believe me, but it just is this way, and no amount of statistics, simulations etc change the fact that the entire time I played the game I haven't encountered those lucky streaks of card actually working 1 in 4 times.

I don't care if it's working as intended, tbh, I just brought it up because it is what it is

[malogoss]

Originally posted by May XD:

Success rate for me seems to be 1 in 10, not 1 in 4, and that's being generous

Why should I doubt that?
Thanks for proving my point.

[[Nelly]]

200 Attempts
14 Successes
186 Nope

Only 7% success rate is retarded so not sure why some people want numbers "To PrOvE A POInt ItS 1-4". my numbers could be called bad luck or "confirmation biased" anyway lol.