Partial Refraction - $7 Rare | Balatro | Page 1

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 1:16 AM

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Straights are considered to contain a Two Pair

Art resembles a laser beam heading into water, with beam bending towards the normal and another beam reflecting off the water

bold sierra Jul 25, 2025, 1:39 AM

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does playing a 2 pair score as a straight

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 1:52 AM

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no, if your straights are level 4 and your two pairs are level 7, if you play a 9, 9, 6, 6 then you get the level 7 score

dawn gazelle Jul 25, 2025, 2:30 AM

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Confus

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 2:35 AM

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What's confusing?

rugged fern Jul 25, 2025, 2:44 AM

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Doesn't feel very vanilla

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Also I don't get the reference

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 2:48 AM

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rugged fern Jul 25, 2025, 2:49 AM

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No I've been through high school physics

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I just don't get why straight contains two pair

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If anything it should contain a pair right

lime nacelle Jul 25, 2025, 2:50 AM

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rugged fern I just don't get why straight contains two pair

I think it's because the straight beam spits into a pair of beams

lime nacelle Jul 25, 2025, 2:50 AM

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rugged fern If anything it should contain a pair right

Yeah, that would make sense

rugged fern Jul 25, 2025, 2:50 AM

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Yes one pair of beams

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I get that the idea is probably pants synergy

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 2:50 AM

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Pair would also work, but that felt weak

rugged fern Jul 25, 2025, 2:51 AM

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Yeah that would be weak

hardy ember Jul 25, 2025, 2:51 AM

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young ginkgo no, if your straights are level 4 and your two pairs are level 7, if you play a ...

this isnt how vanilla balatro works. if your straight actually contains a two pair its still scored as a straight

lime nacelle Jul 25, 2025, 2:51 AM

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Pants synergy is incredibly specific

rugged fern Jul 25, 2025, 2:51 AM

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hardy ember this isnt how vanilla balatro works. if your straight actually contains a two pa...

Your straight can't contain a two pair in vanilla

hardy ember Jul 25, 2025, 2:51 AM

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sure it can

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4 fingers

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wait

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 2:52 AM

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4 fingers can make it contains a Pair and straight

rugged fern Jul 25, 2025, 2:52 AM

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Even four fingers and shortcut doesn't work

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 2:52 AM

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Not a two pair

hardy ember Jul 25, 2025, 2:52 AM

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yes

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wild

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ace of spades, ace of spades, 10 of spades, wild 9 of spades, 9 of clubs

rugged fern Jul 25, 2025, 2:52 AM

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lime nacelle Pants synergy is incredibly specific

Yeah but I don't see anything else

rugged fern Jul 25, 2025, 2:52 AM

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hardy ember ace of spades, ace of spades, 10 of spades, wild 9 of spades, 9 of clubs

That's not a straight in any world

hardy ember Jul 25, 2025, 2:53 AM

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4 fingers

lime nacelle Jul 25, 2025, 2:53 AM

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rugged fern Yeah but I don't see anything else

Yeah I know, that's why this suggestion feels weird

hardy ember Jul 25, 2025, 2:53 AM

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rugged fern That's not a straight in any world

oh frick i was thinking of flush 🤦

rugged fern Jul 25, 2025, 2:53 AM

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hardy ember 4 fingers

How is A A 9 9 10 a straight even with four fingers

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Lmfao

hardy ember Jul 25, 2025, 2:53 AM

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my bad

rugged fern Jul 25, 2025, 2:53 AM

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Fair enough

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 2:53 AM

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The face cards in question:

rugged fern Jul 25, 2025, 2:54 AM

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Wait when did we start questioning them

lime nacelle Jul 25, 2025, 2:54 AM

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I think the reference is cool and has potential, the effect is just weird

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 2:55 AM

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I'm open to ideas

hardy ember Jul 25, 2025, 2:55 AM

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anyway if a straight contains a pair you still dont get the planet level for pair if it's higher

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which is weird

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 2:56 AM

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Yeah, that was when Straights were also two pairs before I thought about it a little more

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Also, I thought about it being reversible

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Like, two pairs also contain straights

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But that made less sense

rugged fern Jul 25, 2025, 2:57 AM

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Straight containing pairs only gives you Duo if anything

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Containing two pair gives you pants and duo

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 2:57 AM

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Maybe to-do list

rugged fern Jul 25, 2025, 2:57 AM

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To-do list doesn't work with containment

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It needs exact hands iirc

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 2:57 AM

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Would this be a better Uncommon?

lime nacelle Jul 25, 2025, 2:58 AM

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Potential idea (may be bad, just brainstorming here):

If played hand contains a Straight, destroy the middle-ranked card after scoring (not sure how it works with 4 fingers but could be cool)

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 2:58 AM

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Could reword it to third most card

lime nacelle Jul 25, 2025, 2:59 AM

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Sure, that would work

azure cosmos Jul 25, 2025, 2:59 AM

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Third scoring card for simplicity

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Unless yoy want the niche four fingers synergy

lime nacelle Jul 25, 2025, 3:00 AM

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azure cosmos Third scoring card for simplicity

I think that would be good if it's Rare, probably too strong for any lower rarity to be able to choose which one like that

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 3:01 AM

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Third most and third scored can be rearranged

lime nacelle Jul 25, 2025, 3:01 AM

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By third most, I assumed you meant third highest-ranked

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 3:01 AM

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Playing 10, J, 9, Q, 8 still counts as a straight, even if played out of sequence

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No, I mean the card in third position

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In my example, the 9 gets eliminated

lime nacelle Jul 25, 2025, 3:03 AM

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That's not the third most card

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I think it should be third highest-ranked for Uncommon or third scored card for Rare

young ginkgo Jul 25, 2025, 3:04 AM

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Third scored would be sensible

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Actually, @lime nacelle make your idea a separate thread; your idea deserves better publicity

lime nacelle Jul 25, 2025, 3:05 AM

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Ok, I'll do that

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I might try and make a sprite first

misty saddle Jul 25, 2025, 3:25 AM

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young ginkgo ``Straights are considered to contain a Two Pair`` Art resembles a laser beam h...

What makes this practical..?

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I don't see much of a use

main merlin Jul 25, 2025, 3:32 AM

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Yea me neither

bold sierra Jul 25, 2025, 3:41 AM

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young ginkgo no, if your straights are level 4 and your two pairs are level 7, if you play a ...

so is it whatever is higher level or does it not matter

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oh nvm

weak depot Jul 25, 2025, 5:58 AM

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this is a joker that would be decent with pants, runner and order

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all 3 of these jokers are good, but even still this would be as impractical as baron is in ante 8 games

mellow haven Jul 28, 2025, 10:59 PM

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The only thing this is good for is Duo, Commons looking for pair or two pairs, and Pants?

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Seems really limited.

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6/150 jokers would be affected. And as far as I can tell there are no other upsides to this card other than these synergies. A decent Rare, 4 early game commons, and a decently solid flat mult scaler that's a little awkward to use.

bold sierra Jul 28, 2025, 11:39 PM

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even if i get this and pants, why would i play a straight to scale it and not just 2p

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