Balatro is a deck-building roguelite in which players construct poker hands to earn chips and overcome enemy blinds. The game features mechanics for enhancing a deck of playing cards, purchasing Jokers that modify hand effects, and discovering synergies to progress through increasingly challenging encounters.
Japanese study overview
Balatro is a Japanese video game of 12,729 characters, with 970 unique words and 408 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 970 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 枚counter for thin, flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper, plates, coins)×93
- 倍率magnification×25
- 場合case×20
- 時time×19
- 作るto make×19
- 使用use×18
- 与えるto give (esp. to someone of lower status)×18
- 加えるto add×18
- 選択choice×17
- 惑星planet×17
- 手札handwritten letter×15
- 難易度degree of difficulty×15
- 道化師clown×5
- 裏向きactual and hidden×4
- 無効にするto disable×3
- 体験版demo version (of software)×3
- 報奨金cash bonus×3
- 大枚large sum (of money)×3
- 持つto hold (in one's hand)×14
- 勝利victory×14