One of the most engaging parts of the poker rogue-like Balatro is unlocking all the cards. From the signature Jokers to rare Tarot or Planet cards to turn even the most basic runs into a high-scoring machine. However, instead of entirely relying on luck as you progress, there are specific seeds that players have found online that can lead to some extremely high scores.
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In essence, these runs feature rare circumstances that players have captured and shared for others to experience by playing through the seed. Hoping into them is easy, even if the runs might take some planning.
How To Use Seeded Runs
To activate seeded runs in Balatro, you need to press a button to the left of the Play button on the deck screen. Clicking that will open a small box to enter the seed in, but it will also make the runs you do while using seeded runs different.
You cannot unlock new Joker cards or gain achievements when playing seeded runs.
Effectively, seeded runs are similar to the Challenge runs: they are fun experiences to try out, but the regular runs are different and are the only way to unlock all the Joker cards in the game.
The All 10 Seed
This is one of the most unique seeds in all of Balatro, simply because it takes something that has an astronomically small chance and makes it viable with a seed. If you have unlocked the Erratic Deck, there is a seed for it that turns the entire deck into 52 copies of one card with the seed 7LB2WVPK.
This is possible because the Erratic Deck randomly generates a 52-card deck, with entirely random numbers and suits within. So, this deck has 52 cards, and all of them are the 10 of Spades.
This means this deck can always play the Flush Five hand, which scores exactly 3,360 points (160 chips plus ten chips per card, multiplied by 16) in early Antes. Then, as the game progresses, find the Eris Planet card to increase the potency of your Flush Five hand.
Add onto that some Jokers that fit perfectly with your cards, like the Walkie Talkie Joker in the first shop, the Blackboard Joker later on, or focus on making all your 10s into Lucky or Steel cards using the Magician or Chariot Tarot cards, and you get a run that can easily hit a million points.
The Triple Perkeo Seed
This seed revolves around two of the best ways to make good runs great: Negative Jokers and Legendary Jokers. In this case, you can have both simultaneously with the seed 2K9K9KH, which offers the chance to get three Perkeo cards by Ante 2. This is a deck that requires a lot of smart gameplay, so attempt this at your own risk of frustration.
The trick with this seed is to keep your money high while completing a small checklist of tasks to get all three Perkeo cards. To start, enter the first shop with at least six dollars, and buy the Arcana pack to use the Hermit card before buying the Buffoon pack and selecting the Invisible Joker.
Then, in the shop after round two, the second opened Arcana pack will contain the Soul card and summon the legendary Perkeo Joker. After completing round three, sell the Invisible Joker to copy Perkeo. Later, the Invisible Joker will appear again in the shop after round four and complete the triple Perkeo build.
The toughest part of this seed is getting through early game builds without chips or mult Jokers, but after reaching the triple Perkeo, just find a strong consumable to add multiple copies of to reach the end goal. Some of these consumables include the Chariot, which can make Steel Cards, as well as the Death card which can rewrite cards in your deck into other ones.
However, the true best consumable to duplicate is the Spectral card Cryptid, since that can exponentially make one card dominant in your deck. The easiest way to do that is to play this seed on the Ghost Deck, but that is not needed for this seed to work.
The Double Polychrome Brainstorm Seed
This seed requires you to have unlocked the Ghost deck, as the seed TPUKVUAT will only give out what we want with that deck. However, if you skip the second blind in the run (which offers a free rare Joker), the final shop of the first Ante will have a Brainstorm Joker as well as the Ankh Spectral card.
Since the Ghost deck starts with the Hex spectral card, you can then buy the Brainstorm, use Hex to make it Polychrome, and then use Ankh to duplicate it.
This alone makes the run very interesting, as one good Joker will then be duplicated twice (if placed on the leftmost slot) before two different Polychrome Jokers make the multiplier stronger. Some of the best combinations with this build include a Steel-focused build where your Brainstorms can duplicate the Mime Joker or the Steel Joker, or a Magic-build focused around duplicated Lucky Cat Jokers.
Then again, any multiplied multiplier Joker can thrive when duplicated.
The Triboulet/Yorick Face Card Seed
When it comes to face card builds, some of the best ones involve the Legendary Joker Triboulet, and this seed offers it alongside another legendary Joker. The seed is 6N4XYT7Q, and what makes it special is that when you skip both blinds on Ante 2 and open two Arcana packs through the skips, it gives the two Legendary Jokers of Triboulet and Yorick.
These two Jokers aren’t only some of the strongest Legendary Jokers, but they work well together. Yorick offers a scaling multiplied multiplier for every 23 cards discarded, while Triboulet gives every played King or Queen some multiplied multiplier.
So, discard all your hands for Kings and Queens and watch the score climb to insurmountable heights. Try and whittle your deck down through the Hanged Man tarot card, or try and create more Kings and Queens through the D.N.A. Joker or the Death tarot card.
The Midas Mask/Vampire Seed
To end this list of strong Balatro seeds, we have one of the best and most unique Joker combinations in the game: Midas Mask and Vampire. The seed DZLSDRX2, starts by skipping the first blind to get a free shop that includes Vampire, and then the next shop has Midas Mask.
Buying Hieroglyph, the voucher for the second ante, effectively gives you a headstart to build the synergy between the two Jokers. As long as you have the Midas Mask positioned to the left of the Vampire, playing face cards will turn them gold before the Vampire removes the gold and improves its own multiplied multiplier.
Then, on top of that, a shop post-Hieroglyph offers a Spectral pack with a Legendary Joker inside: Yorick. Those three cards alone offer a lot of stacking multiplier that only improves the more cards you discard and hands you play.
So, discard your hands for face cards, then play them to scale up your Vampire Joker every round. Combine that with Jokers like the Smiley Face Joker and the Pareidolia Joker, and you can stack lots of mult to eventually multiply.
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