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Balatro creator gets 'a taste of my own medicine' as he struggles in vain to score the game's hardest achievement How well do you know Balatro's jokers? Try to ace our latest quiz! Christopher Livingston 30 July 2025 Ante up! Let's see if you're a true card sharp or just a flop. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Playstack) More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We've got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. What happens when you take poker, add magic, and remove almost all the poker? Your game becomes a smash hit and an obsession even among those who normally don't play roguelikes or 4-suit card games. That's Balatro, where standard poker hands quickly become gloriously twisted by enchantments, combos, and multipliers. Within a few rounds you might not just have an ace up your sleeve, but a dozen of them. Here at PC Gamer we like Balatro so much it found a place in our list of the Top 100 PC games—sitting flush at number eight, in fact—and it became our Game of the Year in 2024. Over a year later it's still a regular topic of conversation among the staff, some of whom consider themselves Balatro experts. Related Articles How well do you know your videogame spells? Put your arcane knowledge to the test with our latest quiz Think you know gaming? Test your knowledge with PC Gamer's fiendish quizzes Quiz time! Can you guess which games these 10 ridiculous patch notes are from? How about you? How well do you know Balatro's jokers? Think you've got a handle on Blueprint's abilities and Four Fingers' talents? Can you tell the difference between the five Legendary jokers? Are you feeling Wily, or Zany, or maybe just a bit Mad? Then put you knowledge to the test with our latest quiz. 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