Building a Lemon-Focused Run in CloverPit: Landing a 10^13571 Hit and Escaping

In front of the player is a desk with a slot machine. Next to it is an ATM that displays the next repayment quota, and behind the player is a shop area. You can keep whatever you like in the drawer under the desk. At the start, it was stuffed with what appeared to be pieces of a corpse, so the streamer laid them out on the desk.

There are seven types of slot symbols in total, each with a set value and appearance probability. Lemons are cheap, worth only 2 coins, but they line up easily, and the streamer described them as "a stable source of income."

The run started with 2 tickets, which the streamer used to buy a card that makes shopping cheaper. Thanks to its effect, they got a record that raises luck for free. The record raises luck once every 7 spins. In the first round, the treasure chest hit big on the final spin, increasing the coins from 10 to 53. Since they were still 60 short of the quota, they bought a Briefcase to make up the difference and cleared Deadline #1. Because they deposited early, they were issued 8 additional tickets as a reward.

When you meet a quota, the phone rings and you can choose one special ability. The streamer used tickets to reroll until a candidate they liked appeared, and chose an ability that makes lemons more likely to appear. This brought the lemon probability to about 32%.

In the shop, they first bought a cookie, which was free thanks to the card's effect. The cookie rerolls the shop, so they bought up everything on offer, then paid coins to reroll once more. They also bought a coupon that turns 1 ticket into 4 tickets, and a potion that reduces the chance of 7s appearing to 0%. The streamer reflected that the card had let them make some good purchases.

Lemons had become easier to line up, but their low per-symbol value hadn't changed. The streamer judged that the build at this stage couldn't earn much yet. Even so, thanks to the junk they'd bought up, their luck occasionally spiked and they earned a decent amount. They earned 93 coins this round, bringing their holdings to 99 including interest.

They used these coins to reroll and gathered the following items:

• A skull that upgrades the drawer
• A chili pepper that raises luck
• A certificate that adds one desk slot
• A pentagram that raises the symbol multiplier
• A coupon that increases tickets
• Urine that triggers yellow symbols repeatedly
• A button that increases the number of urine triggers

On the spin after these upgrades, the stone's effect gave a one-time big boost to luck, and the urine's effect increased the number of times the lined-up symbols triggered. In addition, every time symbols triggered 5 or more times in a single spin, the symbol multiplier rose, and the coin payout kept growing.

They needed 118 coins within the next two rounds, and the streamer reached it easily. They noted that since the quota would keep rising little by little from here on, they wanted to grow as well by raising the symbol multiplier. The lemon's value, originally 2 coins, had risen to 10 thanks to the higher multiplier. With one round still remaining, they deposited early and received the early deposit bonus tickets.

The upgraded drawer randomly produces charms. The streamer obtained a charm that adds modifiers to symbols, and also bought a lemon photo. The photo's effect raised the lemon probability even further. Thanks to the modifiers, symbols began to trigger repeatedly, grant tickets when triggered, and pay out 7% of the deposited amount.

The next quota was about 800 coins, but they had already earned it. At this point, the streamer judged that spinning right up to the deadline would now earn more tickets than getting bonus tickets from depositing early.

Having forgotten to answer the phone, they took the opportunity to choose the "bowl," which halves the probability of three symbol types. They also bought a golden lemon, a counter that increases repeat modifiers, and a cardboard house that expands their slots, then moved on to Deadline #4. In the shop, they bought a fruit basket to further increase how often fruit symbols trigger, and on the phone they chose increased lemon probability. At this point, the lemon probability reached 44%.

The next quota was 3,000 coins. Since the number of triggers had grown substantially, the streamer expected they wouldn't be short on coins for the time being. On the other hand, they pointed out that the quota increases would get much larger from here, so they needed to grow at a pace that wouldn't let the quota catch up.

At the time, their growth relied on a mechanism where the lemon's value increased by 2 each time the golden lemon triggered. The streamer analyzed that with this rate of increase, growth would gradually slow and the quota would eventually catch up. So they said they wanted to put the earnings available now toward preparing for the future.

In the end, they earned around 40,000 coins before depositing. They used a mysterious substance to temporarily double the phone's effect and chose an ability that increases charm slots. Next, they bought a charm that raises the chance of symbols lining up and a charm that further raises the lemon probability. With that, they had completed a build capable of hitting jackpot after jackpot, and they now had plenty of tickets to spare.

At Deadline #6, they again chose an ability that raises the lemon probability and obtained a flowerpot that increases their tickets with each deadline. At #7, they found a megaphone that strengthens the phone's effects and chose a probability-halving ability. This brought the lemon probability to about 73%.

At #8, they were shown that meeting the next quota would earn them a key to escape. The streamer hit a jackpot, deposited, and got the key. About the jackpot animation, the streamer said it's "the best no matter how many times you see it," and remarked, in effect, that adding roguelite build elements to slots, which are already intensely stimulating, naturally makes your brain melt.

At Deadline #9 they earned the right to escape, but the streamer said it would be a shame to leave now and decided to keep earning until they were satisfied.

By this stage, the shop's reroll cost becomes extremely high. The streamer explained that if you buy cigarettes, you can reroll using your spare tickets. Since tickets can be increased almost infinitely thanks to the flowerpot, once cigarettes appear in the shop, you can effectively reroll infinitely.

The next quota after Deadline #10 was roughly 5 times the previous one. The streamer's estimate was as follows: because there were interest modifiers based on the deposited amount, earnings would grow at a compound rate. Considering there are three deposit opportunities per deadline, they figured that simply continuing to spin should keep them on pace until quota increases reached around 1,000-fold.

However, by Deadline #15, the previous quota had been 10^17 while the next was 10^22. The increase had ballooned to 100,000-fold.

According to the streamer, there are several ways to keep going indefinitely from here. This time, they chose a relatively well-known strategy with easy-to-understand mechanics: using the Briefcase to obtain 30% of the quota.

The procedure is as follows. Since they didn't have enough money to reroll, they broke the Abyss they had saved and took the cigarettes out of it. With one pack of cigarettes, they could reroll infinitely, so they searched for a Briefcase and an Abyss for next time. Since they had countless tickets, they were guaranteed to find them. After buying the Briefcase and getting the coins, they bought the next Abyss, stored the cigarettes inside it, and put it away in the drawer so it wouldn't get in the way.

If the Briefcase lets you deposit 30% of the debt, all you need to do is use interest modifiers to raise that to 100%. In terms of the percentage of the deposited amount, that means earning an additional 233%. By the streamer's calculation, the current interest was 42%, so 6 modifier triggers would reach the quota. Since depositing a little lets you advance to the next deadline, this allows you to keep spinning indefinitely.

The streamer cited as an advantage of this method that it lets you continue without relying on the phone. They said it also seemed fun to survive this way while collecting other abilities and transitioning into a different build.

Later, by the time they reached Deadline #214, their money had reached 10^13457. Satisfied, the streamer decided to spin the slot one last time and then escape. By then, the lemon probability was almost 100%. Even so, the streamer said that even knowing it was guaranteed to hit, the jackpot animation still melted their brain. The final jackpot hit was 9.2842E+13571.

The streamer escaped from the cell and ended the run.

The streamer reflected that, with the possibility of death always flickering in the back of their mind, they experienced a wide range of emotions within a small world and had an experience they could only get from this game. As highlights, alongside the thrill of hitting jackpots, they mentioned the indescribable excitement of working out combinations of elements and calculating orders of magnitude.

They also noted that the game offers a wide variety of charms that unlock progressively, as well as many starting and clear conditions, and that there are many strategies and ways to play beyond what they showed this time.