Balatro Score Calculator: Chips, Mult and Best Play

How to use the Balatro score calculator

1. The calculator opens with an example hand. Press Clear to remove it, then add up to 8 cards of your own. Long-press or right-click a card, or select exactly one card and press Edit card, to set its enhancement, edition, seal or debuff.
2. Add your jokers in the same left-to-right order they sit in your run. Jokers that grow over a run, such as Ride the Bus, ask for their current value.
3. Tap up to 5 cards to play. The score bar shows Chips × Mult and whether the hand clears the blind.
4. Open Run settings to set the ante, blind, stake, money and hand levels from Planet cards.
5. Check Best plays to compare suggested card combinations, then select one and open How it scored to see where every point came from.

Balatro poker hand base Chips and Mult

Every hand starts from a base Chips and Mult value. Each Planet card you use levels its hand up by a fixed amount, so a level 3 Flush starts at 65 Chips and 8 Mult.

Scoring cards then add their rank in Chips: number cards add their face value, Jacks, Queens and Kings add 10, and Aces add 11. A level 1 Pair of plain Kings with no jokers scores (10 + 10 + 10) x 2 = 60. A Royal Flush uses the Straight Flush values.

Five of a Kind, Flush House and Flush Five are secret hands. They only appear once you play them, usually with duplicated or suit-changed cards.

Balatro scoring order, step by step

1. Base: the hand type sets the starting Chips and Mult at its current level. Boss blinds such as The Flint can change this.
2. Played cards: each scoring card resolves from left to right. It adds its rank Chips, then its enhancement, seal and edition, then any joker effects it triggers. Retriggers repeat that card before the next one.
3. Held cards: cards left in your hand resolve next, from left to right. Steel cards give x1.5 Mult and jokers such as Baron trigger here.
4. Jokers: each joker applies its main effect from left to right. Foil and Holographic jokers add their bonus before the main effect, Polychrome after it.
5. Final score: Chips × Mult, rounded down. Plasma Deck balances Chips and Mult just before this step.

Normally a Pair scores only the two paired cards. Extra played Stone cards also score, and Splash makes every played card score. Debuffed cards add nothing.

+Mult vs xMult: why joker order matters

+Mult adds a flat amount. xMult multiplies the current Mult. When two effects act independently in the same scoring phase, applying +Mult before xMult gives more Mult.

• 10 Mult, then +20, then x3 = 90 Mult.
• 10 Mult, then x3, then +20 = 50 Mult.

For independent effects, put +Mult jokers to the left of xMult jokers. Copying jokers such as Blueprint and Brainstorm depend on position, so check them separately. A Glass card applies its x2 during played-card scoring, before the joker phase.

Enhancements, editions and seals

These are the standard effects before debuffs and probability boosts such as Oops! All 6s. Editions on cards held in hand do nothing during scoring.

Keep improving your runs

• See the score each ante and stake asks for in the ante score table.
• Plan around the hardest blinds with the boss blind list.
• Find jokers worth building around in the joker tier list.
• New to the game? Start with the beginner's guide.