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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    10 hours ago

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

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

  • @[email protected]
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    912 hours 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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    12 hours ago

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

    • @[email protected]OP
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      412 hours ago

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

  • @cowfodder
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    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%.

  • @rhacer
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    813 hours ago

    The math is publicly available!

    • @[email protected]OP
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      312 hours 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!

  • @ThatGuy46475
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    Why is 1/4 less likely for wheel of fortune than it is for glass card