Balatro, the poker roguelike, on the TI-84 Evo. Play poker hands to reach each blind's target score, buy jokers that change how your hands score, and see how far into the eight antes you can get.
Nothing listed in the connect popup: the calculator has to be plugged in and switched on to appear. Wake it up, check the USB cable (charge-only cables won't work), or move to a different port. Close any other tab that's using the calculator.
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Controls
- Arrows move the cursor. Left and right move along a row, up and down switch between your jokers, your cards and the buttons.
- Enter on a card picks it for your hand, up to five. Press it on a picked card to put it back.
- Enter on PLAY scores the picked cards as a poker hand. On DISCARD it swaps them for new cards. Both need at least one card picked.
- Enter on the cash-out screen after a blind collects your winnings and opens the shop.
- Enter on a shop joker shows what it does, and a second press buys it. NEXT starts the next blind and REROLL refreshes the shop.
- Enter on one of your jokers picks it up, then Enter on another one swaps the two. Del sells the joker you picked.
- Clear goes back to the title screen and ends the run. Press it again there to quit.
- On the title screen, Enter starts a new run and the up or down arrow opens How to Play. After a run ends, Enter starts another and Clear goes to the title screen.
How it plays
Every ante has three blinds: small, big and boss. You get 4 hands and 4 discards to beat each one. Pick up to five cards and play them as a poker hand. The hand type sets your starting chips and mult, each card that scores adds its chips, and the hand is worth chips times mult.
Beat a blind and you cash out: a few dollars for the blind, $1 for each hand you didn't need, and $1 of interest for every $5 you're holding, up to $5. Then you're in the shop. Boss blinds don't have special abilities in this version.
28 jokers
The shop sells jokers from the real game at the real prices, and you can hold five. Some add mult for a suit, some retrigger cards, Bull turns your money into chips, and Blueprint copies whatever sits to its right, so the order you put them in matters.