Balatro: Every Boss Blind, Explained

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Blinds In Balatro
Boss Blinds
Ante 8 Boss Blinds In Balatro

Getting through Balatro is easier said than done. A solid understanding of Poker will only get you so far, and if we are being honest, it won’t get you all that far. The trick is to overcome each blind by scoring enough chips. The amount of chips required increases for each Ante, and every Ante has three Blinds.

The star of every Ante is the Boss Blind. These require a huge amount of chips (usually) whilst also contending with a difficult modifier designed to mess with your ability to score. Not only that but Ante 8 has a special Boss Blind that is particularly nasty. In this guide, we will go over all of them so you know what to expect.

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Blinds In Balatro

Before we go into Boss Blinds, we should probably touch on Blinds in general. A Blind is simply a score you need to hit to progress to the next Blind in the Ante. There are 8 Antes, and three Blinds per Ante. They are split into Small, Big, and Boss.

Blind	Effect
Small Blind	x1 base chips
Big Blind	x1.5 base chips

What sets your standard Blinds apart in Balatro is their ability to be skipped to gain special Tags. We have a whole guide covering Tags which we highly recommend you check out. Boss Blinds cannot be skipped for Tags and they come with unique modifiers.

Boss Blinds

Boss Blinds are the gatekeepers to higher Ante’s and are likely where most of your runs will end. This will either be down to the Score being insurmountable for your deck, or the Boss Blind having an effect that punishes you too harshly.

There are a total of 23 Boss Blinds in Balatro. Each Blind will only start to appear after a certain Ante, with all Blinds being available after Ante 6.

Blind	Effect	Min. Ante
Club	All Clubs are debuffed	1
Hook	Discards 2 cards from your hand at random after each hand played	1
Goad	All Spades are debuffed	1
Head	All Hearts are duffed	1
Pillar	Previously played cards during the Ante are debuffed	1
Psychic	All hands must be played with 5 cards to score	1
Manacle	-1 Hand Size	1
Window	All Diamonds are debuffed	1
Arm	Decrease the level of the Poker Hand played	2
Fish	Cards drawn after a hand are drawn face down	2
Flint	Base chips and melt for playing a hand are halved	2
House	First hand is drawn face down	2
Mark	All Face Cards are down face down	2
Mouth	Only 1 type of Poker Hand can be played this Round	2
Needle	Play only a single hand	2
Wall	Extra large Blind (4x Base)	2
Water	No discards	2
Wheel	1 in 7 cards are drawn face down	2
Eye	Every hand played must be a different Poker Hand	3
Tooth	-$1 for every card played	3
Plant	All Face Cards are debuffed	4
Serpent	After playing or discarding, draw 3 cards	5
Ox	Playing your most played hand resets your money to $0	6

Ante 8 Boss Blinds In Balatro

We lied when we said there were 23 Boss Blinds in Balatro. There are another 5 Blinds in the game. These only appear as the finale to Ante 8. These are even more disruptive than standard Boss Blinds, so we made a separate entry for them here.

Blind	Effect
Amber Acorn	Flips all Jokers face down and shuffles them
Verdant Leaf	All cards are debuffed until you sell 1 Joker
Violet Vessel	Extremely large Blind (x6 base)
Crimson Heart	A random Joker is disabled every hand
Cerulean Bell	1 random card is selected at all times