History VideoGame / Balatro

** Some Jokers award a bonus if your hand contains a particular type, including if it's part of another, higher-priority hand. For example, Jolly Joker awards +8 Mult not only on a Pair proper, but also Two Pair, Three- and Four-of-a-Kind, Full House, Five-of-a-Kind, Flush House and Flush Five, since those implicate a hand with at least two of the same rank.

* CreditCardPlot: The Credit Card costs $1 to purchase from the shop and allows the player to go up to $20 in debt. True to its namesake, it's useful for making necessary purchases when money is low, but often ends up being harmful in the long run because a player obviously isn't generating any interest while their money is negative, and selling it prevents the player from buying anything until they WorkOffTheDebt.

* CursedWithAwesome: Eternal jokers cannot be removed the moment you get them, permanently taking up a joker slot. However, that means that you can freely use deals that sacrifice jokers. In particular, an eternal joker that adds multiplier synergizes with the multiplying Madness, which destroys normal jokers at the start of every round.

** Jumping off of this, a Full House is defined as "a Straight Flush with all cards of rank no lesser than 10." This means Four Fingers can allow you to play Full Houses with only four cards and is required to play Full Houses with Shortcut's unique mechanic as skipping a rank with Shortcut alone would contradict the given definition. Since the game registers a Full House as identical to a Straight Flush for scoring, the only real difference this makes is they create alternate methods for unlocking the Baron and Brainstorm Jokers.

** {{Invoked|Trope}} in the Luxury Tax Challenge, where you start with a hand size of 10, but it's reduced by 1 for every $5 you ''currently'' have, meaning that if a Lucky Card gives you $20, which has a 1-in-15 chance of triggering, your hand shrinks down to ''six'' cards.