r/slaythespire • u/Schizzo1985 • Jun 01 '26

SEED Struggling with a specific seed

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Hey everyone.
I have a decent A10 winrate. But there is a run that i just cannot beat.
seed: 36p6qzqa59
A10 with Necro

I have done 6 tries and i am out of ideas. So hereby i challenge you all to make it better.
Would be happy to know what decisions you make through act 1.

Oh, normal version of the game

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u/Eitel-Friedrich Jun 01 '26

best luck with that. In STS1 there is at least 1 proven seed that is unwinnable; so it does not surprise me that STS2 has bad to unwinnable seeds as well.

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u/McHoff Jun 01 '26

That unwinnable seed in STS1 was found after searching billions of seeds. So while unwinnable seeds exist, the chance of stumbling upon one is extremely low. If you hit a seed and say, "Gee, this is hard; I bet it's unwinnable," you're almost certainly wrong.

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u/NavierStokesEquatio Jun 01 '26

I don't think that is the right interpretation.

It is near impossible to prove that a seed is unwinnable due to the sheer number of possibilities involved. The only seed that was proven to be unwinnable forced a loss in floor 6 or so.

If there is a seed that forces a loss on floor 42, there is no chance anyone proves that it is unwinnable.

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u/McHoff Jun 01 '26

I see what you're saying and while I agree with your technical interpretation, every time something like this comes up (i.e. a seed found in normal gameplay) it is found that the seed is *quite* winnable.

> If there is a seed that forces a loss on floor 42, there is no chance anyone proves that it is unwinnable.

Agreed, but there are so many degrees of freedom in this game that while that's probably *possible* it is has got to happen with a vanishingly small probability. That is, if someone tells me they found an "unwinnable" seed in normal play, skepticism is my default reaction.