Endless-mode HUD: a 2.2 million Small Blind and eight edition Jokers

About this game

Developer: LocalThunk · Publisher: Playstack · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

The same rail, sixteen rounds later, tells the escalation story without a single new element: the layout is identical to the first ante, but the Small Blind, normally the tutorial target, now demands 2,200,000 points and offers No Reward, the round score is already 369,427, and the hand panel reads Straight Flush lvl.2, 140 × 12, because Planet cards have been quietly raising the base values all run. The build's power is worn across the top: eight Joker slots (8/8) fanned and overlapping, several shimmering with foil and holographic editions, against three empty consumable slots (0/3). Ante 10/8 gives the game away, this run has outlived the standard eight antes and the interface simply keeps counting, Round 16, deck down to 18 of an expanded 57. Balatro scales by changing the numbers and the cards, never the furniture. Frame at about 0:28 in the Accolades Gameplay Video (Steam), manually extracted at 27.6s: the scene-change pass emitted no frame for this entire segment.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

side-panel card-hand card-row

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Data table Slots

Screen inventory

• Small Blind header with its blue blind chip medallion
• Score at least 2,200,000, No Reward, the Red Stake rule visible in the target box
• Round score already at 369,427
• Straight Flush lvl.2 hand panel: 140 Chips × 12 Mult
• Hands 2 and Discards 2, $32 money readout
• Ante 10/8 and Round 16, endless mode past the normal eight-ante run
• eight Joker slots filled (8/8), fanned and overlapping, several with foil/holographic edition shimmer
• empty consumable slots marked 0/3
• the played Straight Flush in hearts: King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9 with illustrated face cards
• one card in hand (1/6), deck at 18/57 showing the red-and-blue deck back
• flat green swirl table, a calmer background than the boss blind's red

Top 3 colors

#41785a 34%#4c8365 18%#26494a 17%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© LocalThunk / Playstack, Balatro screenshot: Accolades Gameplay Video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Playstack.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-20. verified 2026-10-20: frame manually extracted at 27.6s from the pipeline-downloaded Accolades Gameplay Video (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; genuine Small Blind HUD confirmed settled (no scoring popups; two neighbouring manual probes at 28.6s and 30.6s show popup and mid-count states, confirming this is the quiet frame); no trailer text overlays the frame

Playstack Video Policy (https://www.playbalatro.com/video-policy, checked 2026-10-20): use of officially released promotional material permitted with the creator's own creative input and commentary, no implied affiliation or endorsement

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