Welcome to our video tutorial on how to shuffle cards! This is a companion video to our book Best of Classic Card Games: A Rule and Play Reference for Your Favorite Games, which is available now on Amazon and elsewhere.
Shuffling is an essential card-playing skill. Nearly every card game is built around the central idea of randomness—that is, the cards should be in an unknown order with no way for any player to predict which card will come next if you pull one off the top of the deck. Shuffling is the process of randomizing the cards at the start of a game or a hand, and there are many ways to do it. In this video, we’ll show you the three most important methods to know, give you the pros and cons of each one, and cover some general conventions and etiquette.