My brain rebuffs understanding playing cards. I love roguelites and love puzzles and love numbers and cannot get into Balatro. I just have no intuition for suits or hands, never have. Carries over to other deck building games too. If you put things in a pile I shutdown.
@kyle - this is my reaction to Chess. I know how all the pieces move around, but a strategy? Uhhhh... meanwhile I'm a decent Bridge (a card game with suits and hands) player.
@kyle ... and now I'm installing Balatro and wondering whether I'm going to hate you later...
@jkl Have you tried it? My partner was able to pass a whole 6 hour flight with it.
@kyle - haven't tried as of yet - making myself wait until after I get some boring work done!