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I've not played Balatro. I can see how three wildcards could turn this into a straight or a flush, but not a straight flush. How?
The ace isn't scored here, but even if it was, if you had 4/5th of a straight and 4/5th of a flush, it's still a "straight flush".
In other words, if the 7 of Clubs was actually a 2 of Clubs, it still counts.
Pretty sure the ace is actually scored as part of a five card straight here, skipping the K, 10, 8.
Yeah I was tired when I wrote that original comment.
There’s the
7-9-J-Qfour card straight flushThere’s also the
A-Q-J-9straight, but I think it doesn’t count as a straight flush.I dunno, I am always pleasantly surprised when things are actually straight flushes with those two jokers
Sorry, I misspoke. It's still scored because if either set is 4 or 5 cards, it's scored.
You can have a straight on one end and a flush on the other end, and as long as at least 4 cards are in either set, it's still a straight flush. And all cards that work with either set counts in scoring.
I don't know jokers by sight yet, but there's one that lets you do straights with gaps... So 2, 4, 5, 7, 9
Another that counts hearts and diamond as same as club and spade as same.
3rd allows straights and flushes to be played with 4 cards.so 7, 9, J , Q.
8 is a skip, 10 is a skip. Ok'd by jokers. Ace isn't counted in scoring or hand.
Ace will get counted as part of the straight.
But would the straight flush take priority since it's a higher scoring hand or how is it chosen? I assume a straight flush doesn't check for a straight and a flush.
All 5 cards will be counted in the straight flush. It's a straight (with one card gaps) and a flush (with 4 of the "same" suit).
It's because the hand joker card there allows straights and flushes to be made with 4 cards, so the 4 black suited cards make a flush, and the gapped sequence makes a straight, since both hands are made together it counts as straight flush. You can ignore the ace. It can get weirder because you can make a 4 card straight and toss another card unrelated but with the same suit as 3 of the straight cards and it still counts as straight flush.