Just beat Jokerless challenge

Using Flushes (got them up to level 25ish) and, funnily enough lots of 'lucky' cards and turning a lot of the deck to spades.

I'm okay at the game, but can't say I've ever managed hugely significant deck manipulation prior to this. By not having any Jokers to distract this did really sharpen the attention to boosting in hand scoring.

This challenge really is heavily luck based (and merciless to errors). Getting good economy early, getting a firm run of planet cards early ish, having a steady stream of in-hand shifts towards a single suit (and upgrading those). Shepherding glass cards (not wasting them on early rounds).

I was beginning to get pretty fed up tbh, as I'd made some decent starts, but found the mid game really tough (around ante 4/5). I found on this run, once I'd got that core sorted the latter rounds were quite relaxing - got beggared by the blind in the end (and couldn't pivot quite fast enough to glass).

So yep, mainly came here to say, hang in there, the balance on this is well judged, and is doable without resorting to spamming starts (I got there in a week or two of casual play... With mistakes on the way)