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?

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    1 month ago

    No, I have checked source code. We are just unlucky.

  • @Infynis@midwest.social
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    171 month ago

    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
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    It’s just rng, I’m afraid. I purchase it often and it procs sometimes.

    • @tschesky@lemm.eeOP
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      61 month ago

      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!

  • Madbrad200
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    Most games lie about the % chance of something hitting because of this. Balatro does not lie.

  • @cowfodder@lemmy.world
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    91 month ago

    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%.

  • @Tudsamfa@lemmy.world
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    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.