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Is "Wheel of Fortune" a joke card or something? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 months ago by tschesky@lemm.ee to c/balatro@lemm.ee
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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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[–] sag@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey! How did it go with your Lenny-break? Did the studies work out? Glad to see you back.

[–] sag@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just came home from last exam of school life. So, yea I have a lot of time but lemmy.world banned me because I am not 18.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Blows. Sorry to hear

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 17 points 2 months 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@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] tschesky@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fair enough! Obviously I know its improbable, but not impossible. Seems almost funny, though, so I had to ask!

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I’ve had it proc 3 times in a row on a run, so I no longer grumble (much) about the games where it never seems to.

[–] Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Understandable, those odds do seem crazy

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You gotta pay attention cause the Nope is slow, but when it hits, it's so fast I always have to dig through and see which joker got it

[–] rhacer@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The math is publicly available!

[–] tschesky@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months 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@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months 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 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tschesky@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Definitely guilty of that! Gambler's paradox and all!

[–] Korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Nope!

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Why is 1/4 less likely for wheel of fortune than it is for glass card