All Unlockable Jokers in Balatro (With Unlock Tips)

Joker Name	Effect	Unlock Condition	Tips
Golden Ticket	Played Gold Cards earn $4 when scored	1. Play a Hand with 5 Gold Cards for the general unlock 2. Have at least 1 Gold Card in your deck during that run	Click here to jump to the relevant section
Mr. Bones	Prevents Death if chips scored are at least 25% of required chips self destructs	Lose 5 Runs
Acrobat	x3 Mult on final hand of round	Play 200 Hands	You will unlock it through regular gameplay. To unlock it faster, you can focus on One Pair and Stone Card Decks.
Sock and Buskin	Retrigger all played face cards	Play a total of 300 Face Cards	You will unlock it through regular gameplay. To unlock it faster, you can follow the same tips as for Golden Ticket (see above).
Swashbuckler	Adds the sell value of all other owned Jokers to Mult	Sell a total of 20 Jokers	You will unlock it through regular gameplay. To unlock it faster, you can play with the Yellow Deck, buy Jokers, then intentionally lose.
Troubadour	+2 hand size, -1 hand each round	Win 5 consecutive rounds by playing only 1 hand	Focus on Straights, Full Houses or Flushes (a little harder). Playing the Plasma Deck on the easiest difficulty will allow you to unlock this without any jokers the first 4 rounds if you focus on cards with a value of 9+.
Certificate	When round begins, add a random playing card with a random seal to your hand	Have a Gold playing card with a Gold Seal	Getting the Gold Seal is significantly harder than getting a Gold card. Play with the Ghost Deck to increase your odds of Talisman, which adds a Gold Seal.
Smeared Joker	Hearts and Diamonds count as the suit, Spades and Clubs count as the same suit	Have at least 3 Wild Cards in your deck	Fairly easy through the use of Arcana Packs. You may have to sacrifice a run victory to focus on the relevant enhancement instead of your preferred one.
Throwback	x0.25 Mult for each Blind skipped this run	Continue a saved run from the main menu	Press Esc during a run. Select Main Menu. Click Play. Choose Continue. Resume your run.
Hanging Chad	Retrigger first played card used in scoring 2 additional times	Beat a Boss Blind with a High Card	Click here to jump to the relevant section
Rough Gem	Played cards with Diamond suit earn $1 when scored	Have at least 30 cards with Diamond suit in your deck	Can be done on any deck, but Zodiac Deck with its extra Tarot Cards increases your odds. Using Ghost Deck and hitting an early lucky Sigil to change a full hand to Diamonds can give you a riskier early boost.
Bloodstone	1 in 2 chance for played cards with Heart suit to give x1,5 Mult when scored	Have at least 30 cards with Heart suit in your deck	The checkered deck, once you unlock it, starts with 26 Heart suit cards. It requires you to win a run with the Black Deck, which itself requires you to unlock 100 items in your Collection.
Arrowhead	Played cards with Spade suit give +50 Chips when scored	Have at least 30 cards with Spade suit in your deck	The checkered deck, once you unlock it, starts with 26 Spade suit cards. It requires you to win a run with the Black Deck, which itself requires you to unlock 100 items in your Collection.
Onyx Agate	Played cards with Club suit give +7 Mult when scored	Have at least 30 cards with Club suit in your deck	Can be done on any deck, but Zodiac Deck with its extra Tarot Cards increases your odds. Using Ghost Deck and hitting an early lucky Sigil to change a full hand to Clubs can give you a riskier early boost.
Glass Joker	This Joker gains x0,75 Mult for every Glass Card that is destroyed	1. Have at least 5 Glass Cards in your deck for the general unlock 2. Have at least 1 Glass Card in your deck during your specific run	Fairly easy through the use of Arcana Packs. You may have to sacrifice a run victory to focus on the relevant enhancement instead of your preferred one.

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Joker Name	Effect	Unlock Condition	Tips
Showman	Joker, Tarot, Planet, and Spectral cards may appear multiple times	Reach Ante Level 4
Flower Pot	x3 Mult if poker hand contains a Diamond card, Club card, Heart card, and Spade card	Reach Ante Level 8	This is the last Ante Level you need to beat to win a run. You will regularly get here through regular gameplay as you unlock more jokers and get better at the game.
Blueprint	Copies ability of Joker to the right	Win a run
Wee Joker	This Joker gains +8 Chips when each played 2 is scored	Win a run in 18 or less rounds.	A full run has 24 rounds (Small Blind, Big Blind, Boss x8 Antes). That means you need to skip at least 6 rounds. That’s not very restrictive. Just make sure to pick the most interesting Tags (bonuses for skipping rounds).
Merry Andy	+3 discards each round, -1 hand size	Win a run in 12 or less rounds	Much more restrictive. You can only play 4 rounds apart from the bosses. Best attempted when you get the Throwback Joker early in a run (x0.25 Mult per skipped round). Play on the easiest difficulty.
Oops! All 6s	Doubles all listed probabilities (ex: 1 in 3 -> 2 in 3)	In one hand, earn at least 10,000 chips	This will be easy enough once you get used to the game. Focus on Flushes, Straights or Full Houses and +Mult Jokers.
The Idol	Each played Ace of Spades gives x2 Mult when scored  Card changes every round	In one hand, earn at least 1,000,000 chips.	You will reach this level when you regularly win runs. On top of previous tips, also focus on Scaling xMult Jokers.
Seeing Double	x2 Mult if played hand has a scoring Club card and a scoring card of any other suit	Play a hand that contains four 7 of Clubs	Click here to jump to the relevant section
Matador	Earn $8 if played hand triggers the Boss Blind ability	Defeat a Boss Blind in 1 hand without using any discards	Click here to jump to the relevant section
Hit the Road	This Joker gains x0,5 Mult for every Jack discarded this round	Discard 5 Jacks at the same time	Click here to jump to the relevant section
The Duo	x2 Mult if played hand contains a Pair	Win a run without playing a Pair
The Trio	x3 Mult if played hand contains a Three of a Kind	Win a run without playing a Three of a Kind
The Family	x4 Mult if played hand contains a Four of a Kind	Win a run without playing a Four of a Kind
The Order	x3 Mult if played hand contains a Straight	Win a run without playing a Straight
The Tribe	x2 Mult if played hand contains a Flush	Win a run without playing a Flush

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Joker Name	Effect	Unlock Condition	Tips
Stuntman	+250 Chips, -2 hand size	In one hand, earn at least 100,000,000 chips	Click here to jump to the relevant section
Invisible Joker	After 2 rounds, sell this card to Duplicate a random Joker	Jokers	Win a run on the first 3 difficulty levels to unlock the Painted Deck. This deck gives +2 hand size and -1 Joker slot. Beat it on the lowest difficulty without adding any Negative Jokers to your deck.
Brainstorm	Copies the ability of leftmost Joker	Discard a Royal Flush	Get 100 items in your Collection to unlock the Black Deck. Win a run with this deck to unlock the Checkered Deck, which has 26 Hearts and 26 Spades. If you don’t get the unlock on the Ante 1, Small Blind, start over. May take some tries.
Satellite	Earn $1 at end of round per unique Planet card used this round	Have $400 or more	Win a run on the first 4 difficulties to unlock the Anaglyph Deck. Don’t skip any rounds. Skip the Economy Tag on Ante 8 or higher. Sacrifice your run by selling your Jokers if you’re just a few dollars short.
Shoot the Moon	Each Queen held in hand gives +13 Mult	Play every Heart in your deck in a single round	You will basically want to eliminate almost all Heart cards in your deck. You can do so through Hanged Man and turning them into other suits. Easiest in Abandoned Deck (requires a win on Green Deck which requires 75 unlocks) as it only has 10 Hearts.
Driver’s License	x3 Mult if you have at least 16 Enhanced cards in your full deck	Enhance 16 cards in your deck	You will get this one pretty quickly through regular play. Focus on Arcana Packs instead of playing cards. They affect more cards plus Seals (little stamps) and Editions (Foil, Holographic Polychrome) don’t count towards the total.
Cartomancer	Create a Tarot card when Blind is selected (Must have room)	Discover every Tarot card	You will get there with regular play, though you may need to pick some enhancements you consider useless.
Astronomer	All Planet cards and Celestial Packs in the shop are free	Discover every Planet card	Click here to visit the dedicated page for this Joker (opens in a new tab)
Burnt Joker	Upgrade the level of the first discarded poker hand each round	Sell a total of 50 cards	You will get here through regular gameplay, but it may take you a while.
Bootstraps	+2 Mult for every $5 you have	Have at least 2 Polychrome Jokers	Requires some luck, but you’ll get here through regular gameplay.
Canio	This Joker gains x1 Mult when a face card is destroyed	Legendary Joker
Triboulet	Played Kings and Queens each give x2 Mult when scored	Legendary Joker
Yorick	This Joker gains x1 Mult every 23 cards discarded	Legendary Joker
Chicot	Disables effect of every Boss Blind	Legendary Joker
Perkeo	Creates a Negative copy of 1 random consumable card in your possession at the end of the shop	Legendary Joker

Tips for Unlocking Specific Jokers

Unlocking the Golden Ticket Joker

Playing a Hand with 5 Golden Cards is easiest with the Plasma Deck or Nebula Deck. These Decks concentrate on base chips, without relying too much on Arcana enhancements.

The Plasma Deck is the third to last deck in your Collection. It requires you to win a Run on the Blue Stake, the 5th difficulty. The Nebula Deck is significantly easier to unlock. It only requires you to win a Run with the Blue Deck on any difficulty. The Blue Deck only requires you to unlock 20 items in your Collection, which will only take a few runs through regular gameplay.

Focus on a deck with Face Cards (e.g., Full House or Two Pair with Face Cards). If you can keep this up by increasing chips and multi through Planet Cards and Jokers until Midas Joker appears, it’s pretty much an automatic win.

Do keep in mind that Midas Mask only turns cards Gold after you play them. Unlocking the Golden Ticket Joker will only happen when the cards are already Gold when you play them. That means you may need to play a few hands with Midas Mask before you’re ready for the unlock.

Unlocking the Hanging Chad Joker

Beating a Boss with High Card is easiest in Ante 1 on the easiest difficulty. There it is still easy to manually calculate your extra score. Even if don’t succeed, you will also not lose a lot of time per attempt.

I recommend playing with the Yellow Deck, the third deck in your Collection. It’s unlocked by having 50 items in your Collection, which you will get through regular gameplay. Don’t skip any rounds so you get 2 shops before the boss. Don’t worry about building up interest. Just use the deck’s extra funds to buy any chip and Mult-enhancing Jokers. You can also buy Pluto Cards if you happen to see them.

For my example while writing this section, I bought a Red Card Joker. I then skipped all packs to get +12 Mult. Not the best strategy for long-term success, but easy enough to unlock Hanging Chad. Other Jokers with a similar mediocre power level will work just as well.

On your first hand, get as close to 600 without going over it. Calculate your score manually for this:

• Select your hand to see your base score
• Mentally add the value of your cards (and chip-boosting jokers) to the blue part of the equation.
• Add the value of any Mult boosting jokers to the red part of the equation.

After this, only play High Cards to finish the job. Play only Aces and Face cards. In my case, my King scored (10 + 5) x (1 + 12) = 195 points thanks to my Red Card. 

Make sure to follow the conditions of the Boss so your hand counts! In my example, I had to play K-T-9-6-4 to have a High Card and to meet the requirement of playing 5 cards.

Unlocking the Seeing Double Joker

To play a hand with four 7 of clubs reliably, you will preferably build a collection of quite a few more of these cards. There are a few ways about this, but my preferred strategy uses the Abandoned Deck.

The Abandoned Deck only has only 40 cards, but still has two 7 of clubs. This enables us to more reliably draw the cards we need. To unlock the Abandoned Deck, you first need to unlock the Green Deck by having 75 items in your collection through normal play. Then you need to win a Run with the Green Deck on any difficulty.

I do not recommend focusing on Four of a Kind right away. You’ll have an easier time focusing on Clubs/Flushes or on Full Houses with Sevens while you build up your Deck further. You can play the Abandoned Deck on the lowest (White) difficulty.

Here are some of the more reliable ways to build up more sevens of clubs:

• The Death Arcana can copy the Seven of Clubs. Make sure to sacrifice a non-club, non-seven to copy into a Seven of Clubs
• The Cryptid Spectral Card can create two copies of a Seven of Clubs without sacrificing anything
• The Moon Arcana can turn three non-club cards into club cards. Preferably you will change 7s, but 6s and 5s are a good option as well, because..
• …The Strength Arcana can turn a six of clubs into a seven of clubs. If you don’t pull any sixes, you can also upgrade fives for later upgrading. If you don’t pull any fives or sixes of clubs, you can also convert other suits to attempt to conver them later
• The Lovers Arcana can make one non-club seven count as a seven of clubs
• Playing Card Packs are also a semi-reliable option. They may not often have a seven of clubs but they may have a 7 of another suit or a 6 of clubs you can further alter with Tarot Cards

Unlocking the Matador Joker

Unlocking this Joker uses a similar strategy to the Hanging Chad Joker, but requires no maths. We need to beat the Boss in one hand, without discarding. We’ll try to do it in Ante 1. It’s both the easiest time to do it and the fastest.

First, you will need to unlock the Yellow Deck if you haven’t already. The extra starting funds of this deck will be of great help for the next steps. You unlock the Yellow Deck by having 50 items in your Collection. Just play regularly and you’ll get there sooner rather than later.

Start a run with the Yellow Deck on the easiest (White) difficulty. Don’t skip any rounds so you get 2 shops before the boss.

• For the first shop, focus only on score-boosting Jokers and loose Tarot Cards (that you can use for the hand you’ll play instead of hoping it will show up). You can even consider starting over if there aren’t any.
• For the second shop, you can also consider Arcana Packs if there are no interesting Jokers (for +Mult and +Chips preferably, though other options such as Stone, Steel, Glass and Lucky Cards can work as well). Spectral Cards can help as well. Reroll if you have funds remaining to buy rerolled items. Try to avoid buying Planet Cards. As you can’t use any discards, it will be difficult to know in advance which hand you’ll play.

I recommend starting over if you don’t manage to do the unlock in the first Ante. It may take you a few tries, but shouldn’t take too many. In my example, my Photograph Joker was useless as I had no face cards but my +50 chips for a pair and Raised Fist still pulled through.

Unlocking the Hit the Road Jack Joker

To reliably be able to discard a hand of 5 Jacks reliably, you will need to collect quite a few more Jacks. Remember that you can’t use your last Discard to draw more Jacks. I recommend gathering as many Jacks as possible and only trying to go for the unlock when you are not certain you can win the round.

 My deck of choice for this unlock is the Blue Deck for its +1 extra Hand. I prefer it over the base Red Deck with its +1 Discard because in most situations because:

• An extra hand means an extra dollar per round
• In most situations, you can also use a hand as a discard that scores you points

You unlock the Blue Deck when you add 20 items to your Collection. This should happen after just a few regular playthroughs. You will then need to add Jacks through any means possible, the most reliable of which are:

• The Death Tarot card, to change a different card into a Jacks 
• The Cryptid Spectral Card, to create two create two copies of an existing Jack
• The Strength Tarot Card, to transform Tens into Jacks
• Playing Card Packs that may give you Jacks directly or Tens which you can later on turn into Jacks

I prefer focusing on Full House for this unlock, although Two Pair can work as well.

Unlocking the Stuntman Joker

Scoring 100,000,000 chips in one hand will be one of the toughest unlocks for most players. It will require some luck, as well as a focus on the core elements for getting insanely high scores:

• +Mult Jokers are attractive early on, but scaling xMult Jokers trump them quite soon. Remember that xMult Jokers also Multiply each other. Only scaling +Mult Jokers have a place in a deck that can manage this unlock. The 2 main ones that come to mind are Fortune Teller (+1 Mult per Tarot) and an early Spare Trousers (+2 Mult per Two Pair).
• A significantly leveled up hand. Many players have a tendency to ignore Planet Cards, but a leveled hand gives you a base Mult rivaling those of the best Jokers. The extra chips it gives can also multiply your score multiple times.
• Proper ordering of both your cards and jokers. Have the +Mult go first and the xMult go last – that way your +Mult gets multiplied as well. To determine which hand you are forming, it only looks at which 5 cards you select, not their order. If you order your hand as 7-T-8-9-J this will still count as a straight!
• Flushes may be easier to hit, but a leveled-up Straight or Full House is a LOT more valuable. Four of Kind and higher hands tend not to be worth the marginal extra value they bring.
• Although not absolutely necessary, Jokers repeating cards in combination with xMult Jokers can do wonders for your score.
• To finish off the unlock, Glass Cards can give you quite the edge, especially if repeated and/or having a Red Seal. Steel Cards and Polychrome Cards with a Red Seal are very powerful as well.
• If you unlock the Anaglyph Deck before you finish the unlock, it can give you the boost you need. Don’t skip any rounds until you get a Negative tag, then hope for some powerful extra Jokers.