(almost) Solving JIMBO

[dycoke]

I'm very new to the game of DST (< 2 weeks) and one of the first things I came across while playing was the Balatro minigame JIMBO. As an unexperienced player, the rewards that JIMBO gives were quite useful to me, so I wanted to maximize them.

I didn't manage to find many resources that provided a clear strategy for winning, so I spent some time making a tool that would (hopefully) increase the rewards you got. The result is a website that calculates the discard choices that mathematically maximizes your expected score at the end of the game.

It runs fully locally and on your browser using webassembly. A link to it can be found here: https://crycoke.github.io/dst-jimbo-solver/

One caveat is that it doesn't fully support all the jokers. Maxwell, Wendy, Webber, and Wes all have joker effects that make it much slower to find an exact answer for, so they were not included. If anyone would like to try a hand at finding quick solutions for those, the code and math are open source at this link: https://github.com/crycoke/dst-jimbo-solver/blob/main/details.md

 

Here is an image of what the site looks like: