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Jev Plays Balatro

Let Jev plan and play Balatro from structured game state.

What Jev decides

Hand focus, spending posture, and the next legal gameplay action.

A Balatro mod and controller give Jev a run-planning loop and a tactical loop for cards, discards, purchases, and consumables.

CHOICE
Jev role
Plan a run and choose tactical game actions.
Input
Structured Balatro state and currently available actions.
Output
A selected plan or tactical action for the game controller.
Decision frequency
At planning updates and each tactical game decision.
Fallback
The controller selects from legal actions; the published experiment does not claim a win.
Author reported · Source reviewed

How it works

Input
Structured Balatro state and currently available actions.
Jev
CHOICE
Output
A selected plan or tactical action for the game controller.

Overview

The mod supplies structured state and legal actions rather than screenshots. Jev sets a run focus and chooses gameplay moves while Balatro executes them. The experiment is complete, but the repository reports no winning run: its best attempt reached the ante 8 Big Blind without clearing it.

Language
Python
Author
IgorWarzocha
Sources checked Sep 24, 2026

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