I am never one for gaming accessories but this card shuffle is life changing. 100+ decks of cards shuffled in less than 5 seconds without any wrist strain.
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I’ve thought about getting one for some of my games with larger decks, but I’m always nervous it will decide to “eat” some cards one day and ruin my game.
Let’s imagine you have two fresh decks. Both sorted so that, say, from bottom to top you have CA-K, DA-K, HA-K, SA-K. You put one on each side. After one pass, interleaved, you will have an pile that is broadly C,D,H,S, possibly with one or two card overlaps in suit breaks, CA at bottom, SK at top.
If you then separate them by reverses (red & blue), each deck will be in order/sorted again.
If you shuffle the cards then separating the decks should give a random order.
Maybe the machine requires multiple passes but I’m still not sure about randomness. Or does it pull cards from mid deck?
It takes one card from the bottom of the left stack then the right stack and alternates all the way down. You have to be creative with the cuts to make sure you don't just undo what you did.
Yeah, so after one shuffle you have CA CA C2 C2 etc. That’s what I mean by interleaving. I guess if you do several rounds you might start to approximate a good shuffle (I seem to remember seeing 7-8 but that was for manual shuffles) but this makes me wary. Thanks for confirming!
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BTW this is my favorite card. I just love the flavor, effect, and art.
If you shuffle the cards then separating the decks should give a random order.
Maybe the machine requires multiple passes but I’m still not sure about randomness. Or does it pull cards from mid deck?