Turns out that Balatro, like Tetris before it, can only be ‘finished’ by scoring so high it crashes the game

Ever wonder how far you can go in Balatro once you get past those first eight antes and enter endless mode? Sure you have. What about once you hit ante 16 and enter the wild reaches of untracked endless mode? Less likely, but you might have made it out there once or twice. Even fewer would be those who have hit an integer so high their game just bugs out and explodes in a big ol’ glitched-white-card-spewing crash.

Well, as proven and viewed widely by streamer Nandre, you can in fact hit Ante 39 and just straight up explode the videogame to win because 1.8e308, the highest number it will track on your machine in the game’s code, isn’t high enough to win the score requirement of that ante. Which is… also higher than the highest number your machine will track, so it just displays as “nan”—programmer speak for “not a number.”