Im bored so im gonna ride the bus (counting)

[hard stone]

Don't mind me counting my mult
-# you can treat this as counting channel with balatro mechanics

How this work : Each user "plays" a blind when they sent a message here, boss blinds, antes requirements and stuff doesn't exist, just scaling

• You may buy or sell jokers AFTER you scale the current jokers (the next person will have to do the effect)
• No there's no hand or stuff shenanigans just jokers activating regardless
• yes it's just 1 hand

Permanent joker:
Ride the bus - Main Mult scaling, Eternal [+1 mult]

-# separate the mult and chips to make it less annoying
-# you may get jokers after you play but try not to add confusing/complex/non compatible ones

+1 mult

+2

+3

[quick geode]

"William II of England" on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_II_of_England?wprov=sfti1#

-# >>> was a king of england

[hard stone]

Oh well

+1 mult

[quick geode]

?

[hard stone]

+2 mult

[odd wharf]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King

[dense sierra]

i should've waited oops

[toxic sedge]

+1 mult

[hard stone]

+2 mult

Im bored so im gonna ride the bus (counting)

[hard stone]

+3

[quick geode]

+4

[hard stone]

+5

[halcyon lance]

+6

[dense sierra]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_O.C._characters#Jack_Hess

[hard stone]

+1

[noble sentinel]

+2

[hard stone]

+3

[toxic sedge]

Synonyms for the word "King", provided from https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/

• ruler
• monarch
• sovereign
• crowned head
• leader
• lord
• prince
• Crown
• emperor
• majesty
• head of state
• consort
• His Majesty
• overlord

[viscid oxide]

1

[noble sentinel]

🃏 here, i added jimbo for more scoring

[dense sierra]

+5

[vivid belfry]

+6

[echo zealot]

+7

[thin rose]

+8

[vivid belfry]

+9

[uneven mirage]

+11

[hard stone]

+13
-# (blueprint is still alive, it's now +2)

[deep badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper

[hard stone]

Bro

+1

[deep badger]

+2

[hard stone]

+3

[karmic cosmos]

+4

[toxic sedge]

+5

[dense sierra]

what happened to jimbo and blueprint

ok i'm restarting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(chess)

+6

[hard stone]

+8

-# current jokers active : (base, eternal), 🃏 +4 base mult, each score scales by +2 now
-# 3/5

[dense sierra]

+10

this is genuinely the most elaborate counting thread i've ever been in

[hard stone]

+12 mult
Should i buy

[vivid belfry]

[saves you from þe first face reset every count]

[hard stone]

+14 mult

-# Counting but unhinged be like

[vivid belfry]

+16 mult

[hard stone]

+18 mult

[dense sierra]

+20

[vivid belfry]

+22 mult

[dense sierra]

we can beat this right

[vivid belfry]

For sure

[hard stone]

+24 mult

[hard stone]

+26 mult

[quick geode]

another has been found

(+29 mult)

[hard stone]

+32

[quick geode]

+35

also, we have to fight the next yeah?

and after that , repeat this for 7 more Ante’s

and then

[hard stone]

we don't talk about f*ce cards here

+38 mult

[near kernel]

oh yeah

true

+40 mult

my bad

[hard stone]

+42 mult
-# i ate a blueprint

[vivid belfry]

+44 mult

[hard stone]

+46 mult

[quick geode]

(2 more now, +50 mult)

[grand hound]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow

Whoops sorry the bus turned left at the crossroads

[tranquil pagoda]

+0 mult

no wait jimbo's here

+4 mult

[quick geode]

• 8 mult

[grand hound]

I use Hex, adding Polychrome to Ride The Bus and destroying all other Jokers

+1.5 mult

[grand hound]

Aw dangit!

+1.5 mult

[marsh fox]

floats are illegal, anyways, i use an ankh to copy this joker

and then i use invis joker for a third ride the bus

+3 Mult

[cedar ridge]

+0 mult

[vivid belfry]

+1.5 mult

[hard stone]

Im gonna upfate the joker layout

+4.5 mult
I ate the copy of rtb
Don't want to make it complicated
It already have polychrome

[toxic sedge]

+7.5 mult

[hard stone]

+10.5 mult

[viscid oxide]

i sold ride the bus

picked up a green joker

[hard stone]

+12.25 mult

-# The eternal main bus can't be sold but the copy can so you did

Yknow what this getting wild with the polychrome

Ima reset this

[dense sierra]

delta rune

[hard stone]

+2 mult x 1.5

[dense sierra]

so we have an eternal polychrome bus

[hard stone]

ig just split the x mult to make it not hella annoying to count

[hard stone]

P much

Yall flipping hexed the eternal bus

It's always eternal from the start

[hard stone]

now don't add a scaling chip joker

[dense sierra]

time to add a scaling chip joker

[hard stone]

Ur going to make it more annoying to count bru

Well

It's
Chips x mult x Xmult

[deep badger]

(That is Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk)

[hard stone]

+2 mult x1.5

[hard stone]

Should i just start a new game of riding the bus

[tranquil pagoda]

yeah maybe

[hard stone]

Yeah ill restart

+1 mult

[tranquil pagoda]

+2 mult

[forest quail]

• 3 mult

[hard stone]

+4 mult

[forest quail]

• 5 mult

[rain finch]

Omg 4oak jacks 🥰 🥰 🥰

[rain nexus]

• 6 mult

[hard stone]

Go!

+7 mult

[quick geode]

acquired Castle
+8 mult, +12 chips

[hard stone]

+9 mult +24 chips

accuired chicot for safety

[quick geode]

sold chicot and bought the +1 hand voucher

(+10 mult, 33 chips)

[hard stone]

+11 mult, 42 chips

accuired seed money

[tranquil pagoda]

pick up grimbo here

+12 mult +1 mult 42 chips

[hard stone]

+15 mult, 45 chips

[rain finch]

+17 mult, +57 chips

Got gold joker so +4$

[hard stone]

+19 mult + 60 chips

[viscid oxide]

+20 mult, +67 chips

[quick geode]

acquired overstock

rerolled thrice, found 3

this rng is crazy
-# /j

+24 mult, + 86 chips

[marsh fox]

first u need showman

[timber horizon]

picking up an obelisk, hand stats are 60 pairs, 3 flushes, and no other hands so far

[quiet saddle]

Hi guys!

[bleak drift]

No! A face! This run was going so good too!

[dense sierra]

CURRENT STATUS:
🏰 🟢

overstock, seed money, grabber
also we're playing black deck apparently

[vivid belfry]

+28 mult, +98 chips
Bought blank voucher

[quick geode]

+32 mult, + 110 chips

started

[dense sierra]

CURRENT STATUS:
🏰 🟢

overstock, seed money, grabber, black

BLACK DECK, WHITE STAKE

[hard stone]

-# Remember castle is increments of 3 but who tf care about that on discord lmao

[hard stone]

Updated

Anyways
+116 chips, +34 mult * 1.4x mult

[dense sierra]

cobelisk

i guess i'll be the status updater

[hard stone]

I sell the for rebate

This already turns from just a simple +1 mult every time to chaotic madness

[dense sierra]

CURRENT STATUS:
🏰 🟢 📨

overstock, seed money, grabber, blank

BLACK DECK, WHITE STAKE

[karmic sedge]

+1

[hard stone]

+2 mult

[timber horizon]

who played a pair

[dense sierra]

CURRENT STATUS:
♾️

nothing else

no stakes or decks either

[timber horizon]

so basically challenge deck

[hard stone]

Lmao yes

+3 mult

[dense sierra]

+4

[hard stone]

Go my square joker

+5 mult, +4 chips

-# why square?, it's fixed value . . . That's it ig

[tranquil pagoda]

picked up showman

[hard stone]

+6 mult +8 chips

[karmic sedge]

+7mult +12 chips

[rain finch]

Pick up a negative eternal egg

+9 mult +16 chips

[hard stone]

Yeah no you forgot +8 mult

Was this a reset
💀

[rain finch]

No I just played 2 hands

[hard stone]

+1 mult, 4 chips

[rain finch]

I can do that

[hard stone]

Yeah it doesn't work like that here
Also the chip didn't scale

[rain finch]

Oh ok

+2 mult +8 chips

Picked up death and fool

[hard stone]

+3 mult +12 chips

[tranquil pagoda]

got two rental buses

+6 mult, +16 chips, -$6

[hard stone]

+8 mult, +16 chips, -6$
Sold one rental bus and somehow got a plain ride the bus after playing

[tranquil pagoda]

I guess you got it from judgement after the blind

+11 mult, +24 chips, -$12

[hard stone]

+14 mult, +28 chips, -15$

[viscid oxide]

i really feel like this is made confusing by adding different jokers or polychroming the bus (3 of a kind kings)

[timber horizon]

+0 mult, +32 chips, -18$

found a temperance, holding it for now

also i found a technically mathematically balanced joker

1 in 84 chance for +8400 chips, 1 in 20 chance for -8400 chips per hand played

[hard stone]

Ye probably

Should i just sell the other busses and stuff

Sold it

+2 mult +36 chips -22$

[dense sierra]

we need to get our econ back

[quick geode]

don’t we have gold joker still?

[dense sierra]

new run

[quick geode]

i ankh credit card

[dense sierra]

we don't have credit card

[hard stone]

Good we don't have

[quick geode]

how doth we have debt

Without credit card

[hard stone]

It's just the joker stats . . .

[coral cave]

swashbuckler synergy

[open kernel]

lets try riding the bus on abandoned deck

[karmic sedge]

I immediately use skip tag for 25$ later

ivestment tag

+1mult

[hard stone]

You bet

+2 mult

[open kernel]

+3 mult OOOH STANDARD PACK

[hard stone]

+4 mult
Grabbed

[hard stone]

Updated it a bit

[grand hound]

+5 mult

[dense sierra]

status keeper job is gone

i'm unemployed now

[hard stone]

+6 mult

[open kernel]

+7 mult

whats our egg at

[hard stone]

+8 mult, 14$ egg

[tranquil pagoda]

+9 mult, $17

picked up swashbuckler

[hard stone]

+30 mult

[quick geode]

+34 mult, buy gift card

[vivid belfry]

+41 mult

[tranquil pagoda]

+48 mult, picked up invisible

[quick geode]

+55 mult, bought Hieroglyph

[tranquil pagoda]

I think it's +60

cause of invisible base $4 +giftcard

[vivid belfry]

+100 mult, sold invis for egg

[hard stone]

holy moly

• 112 mult

so
bus +1 mult
egg +3$ (+3 mult)
egg +3$ (+ 3 mult)
gift card +5$ (+4 mult)
swash turns sell price to mult

[karmic sedge]

+123 mult

[tranquil pagoda]

gift card is actually +4 cause swash doesn't include it's own price

[tranquil pagoda]

no space!

[karmic sedge]

mb

+123 mult continue

[quick geode]

+134 mult, take negative tag

[tranquil pagoda]

+145 mult, got splash

[quick geode]

+156 mult, buy showman

[tranquil pagoda]

no space!

[quick geode]

?

[tranquil pagoda]

5/5 jokers

6/6 actually with splash

[quick geode]

Ahh

Egg, Egg, Splash, Ride the Bus, swashbuckler, gift card

but
we are doing black deck

[tranquil pagoda]

nope

[quick geode]

so
i buy showman

[tranquil pagoda]

abandoned deck

[quick geode]

…I think earlier that black deck was chosen

[tranquil pagoda]

#1492708574000840835 message

[quick geode]

o so nothing

yeah, but this says no deck
so
ig i will just wait

[tranquil pagoda]

well you can also just sell everything

[quick geode]

I will wait for scaling and then enact my plan
-# i can spell trust me

[hard stone]

this thread went from a simple +1 mult every time to wild chaotic shenanigans lol

[hard stone]

why do we need negative splash . . .
or neg showman
oh well this thread went wild

[karmic sedge]

keep going

So ride the bus, egg, egg, swashbuckler, giftcard, negetive splash

[karmic sedge]

167 mult

+167mult

no showman

[hard stone]

+178 mult
Got Blank Voucher

[karmic sedge]

opened arcana pack, theres a soul card,

are we abandoning any jokers or letting it go

[hard stone]

kill gift card

[tranquil pagoda]

what's gift card worth

[karmic sedge]

uhh assume its like 10 or smth

+5 mult per round from giftcard

but do we rng the soul for it?

[tranquil pagoda]

yeah, for our boy ricky

[karmic sedge]

Ok

WE SELL THE GIFT CARD

[hard stone]

14 blinds after gift card bought

[tranquil pagoda]

so it's 17

[karmic sedge]

We sell giftcard for -17 mult

use soul card

dammit we got chicot

so ride the bus, egg, egg, swashbuckler, chicot neg splash

+168 mult

[tranquil pagoda]

+177 mult, sold chicot for loyalty card

[karmic sedge]

5 rounds left

+184 mult

4 rounds left

[tranquil pagoda]

+191 mult

3 rounds left

[timber horizon]

found a technically mathematically balanced joker in the shop, should we take it?

1 in 84 chance for +8400 chips, 1 in 20 chance for -8400 chips per hand played

[quick geode]

+202 mult, sell loyalty card, buy eternal Pareidolia

[karmic sedge]

white stake no eternals

+202 mult 2 rounds left

[quick geode]

o, I still buy Pareidolia and sell loyalty card though

[karmic sedge]

I sell paradolia

4/5 jokers

[quick geode]

yay
thankfully loyalty card is gone tho

+213 mult

[karmic sedge]

starting to rerolll....

found throwback

Wait how did you get from 191 to 202

mult

198 right?

[quick geode]

by failing to math

[karmic sedge]

• 198 mult then +205 mult then +212 mult

+212 mult

[vivid belfry]

+219 mult
Whats our loadout like?

[hard stone]

honestly for regular counting channel failure to math means a reset

but multiple happened and balatro players just leave counting to the computer anyway so

[quick geode]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII?wprov=sfti1

was king of the united kingdom

new run

please

it has gone too far with so much confusion

[tranquil pagoda]

+1 mult

[hearty wyvern]

oops i held r

[timber horizon]

im swapping to abandoned deck
no more face cards

[hard stone]

+2 mult

[hearty wyvern]

+3

[hard stone]

+4

[hearty wyvern]

what if i buy a booster pack

[tranquil pagoda]

+5 mult, picked up lusty joker

[karmic sedge]

sold lusty joker to get money for invisible joker

+6 mukt

[vivid belfry]

+7 mult

[karmic sedge]

+8mult

invis joker active

[hard stone]

+10 mult

we got 2 busses now (+2 mult each time)
let's not make it complex
yknow what
i grabbed grabber
-# since every player counts as one blind and one shop you can use that extra hand
-# (infinite blinds and antes with no boss)

[tranquil pagoda]

+12 mult

+14 mult

grabbed sixth sense

[timber horizon]

+16 mult
sixth sense gave me familiar for some reason

[tranquil pagoda]

+18 mult, sold familiar and sixth sense for delayed gratification

[dense sierra]

i will play the BLINDSIDE

score required: 1800

[viscid oxide]

i keep wanting to send face gifs but theyre blocked

6 queens

[dense sierra]

i don't think we're beating the blind anymore

[timber horizon]

its okay i bought a judgement eariler what'll it contain

...it was jimbo

[vivid belfry]

+4 mult

[dense sierra]

mmm not good

we have one extra hand

[hard stone]

+6 mult

Special Blind failed
Went back to normal

[vivid belfry]

+8 mult

[hard stone]

+10 mult

+12 mult (i use the extra hand)

[torpid temple]

so if i read the thread correctly that means you are now at +0 mult
...on both busses? yeah

im not sure how to track this

[quick geode]

Acquired and used Ankh

+3 mult

[hard stone]

+6 mult

[vivid belfry]

+9 mult, bought egg

[timber horizon]

dont forget jimbo, so +16 mult

[viscid oxide]

ank destroyed jimbo

it was from judgement so not eternal

[timber horizon]

ah

so still +12

[hard stone]

+15 mult

[karmic sedge]

+18 mult

grabbed popcorn

[hard stone]

+41 mult

(+3 bus) (20 popcorn)

[karmic sedge]

+40 mult

(16 popcorn)

[hard stone]

+39 mult
(12 popcorn)

[karmic sedge]

+38mult

btw I think this is the first time mult decreasing

[hard stone]

-# lmao we're like descending

[karmic sedge]

w popcorn

[hard stone]

Go go wheel

Holo on popcorn
+47 mult

[karmic sedge]

+46 mult

popcorn eaten

[hard stone]

Popcorn dies

[karmic sedge]

find a blueprint

(3 ride the bus + blueprint)

[hard stone]

+40 mult

[vivid belfry]

+44 mult

[hard stone]

+48 mult

[dense sierra]

ok let's try a 1200 size

[hard stone]

+52 mult
we did it

+100$

[dense sierra]

what

[karmic sedge]

?

+56 mult

[hard stone]

+60 mult

[karmic sedge]

wdym

rn +64 mult right

[hard stone]

yep

+68 mult

[quick geode]

acquired
+73 mult

[hard stone]

well we already have it

3 bus (eternal)
1 blueprint
empty

[zinc ember]

an image of mithrix, the KING of nothing

[torpid temple]

+4 Mult

We have Jimbo right

[hard stone]

He died of ankh

We got 5 frigging busses tho

1 is blueprint
1 is brainstorm
3 is eternal busses from ankh and invis

[torpid temple]

[quick geode]

acquired nat negative (whatever the joker is that gives +2 hand size, -1 hand)

[torpid temple]

troubador

[quick geode]

thank you

[zinc ember]

aquired showman

[karmic sedge]

Joker slots full

1 blueprint 1 brainstorn 3 eternal buses 1 negative troubadour

[quick geode]

Acquired ectoplasm

+9 mult?

[zinc ember]

its negative

[karmic sedge]

Negative showman?

ok

[zinc ember]

Yeah

[karmic sedge]

+14mult

[timber horizon]

found a hex, one bus is now polychrome but all the other jokers are gone

[zinc ember]

arent the buses eternal

[timber horizon]

yeah

all the nonbuses are gone i mean

[karmic sedge]

2 bus 1 polychrome bus

+17mult * 1.5

[timber horizon]

wait why is our +mult not divisible by 3 didnt we start with all 3 buses

theres only one solution to this

[karmic sedge]

No, we bought buses along the way

[timber horizon]

no we had 2 and then used ankh to get a third, which happened right after a reset

someone miscounted due to popcorn presumably

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_(given_name)

[karmic sedge]

^why do people put a wikipedia article when run ends

[hard stone]

does this work instead

[karmic sedge]

idk

[timber horizon]

no this means reset

its a face card

[placid shadow]

+20

[timber horizon]

we reset

+0 x1.5

[placid shadow]

+1 x1.5

[timber horizon]

+3*

[quick geode]

acquired eternal obelisk
+4.5 mult

[hard stone]

well
from +1 to whatever mult shenanigans we did lmao

[timber horizon]

no one can count i'm resetting

let's go back to the classic. one ride the bus. and four eternal eggs for good measure

red deck

white stake

[dense sierra]

well then

300

[hard stone]

Ok adding blinds makes it complex

Make a separate forum for blinds and so

[quick geode]

3 9’s and 2 10’s played
+1 mult, blind defeated

[open kernel]

what if someone finds an ectoplasm and swashbuckler