Hate Shuffling Cards? Try This Instead

In this video, Dr. Justin Baeder shares a quick practical tip for an easier way to shuffle cards — a fun off-topic moment.

Key Takeaways

  • A practical life hack - A simple alternative to traditional card shuffling
  • Fun off-topic content - Not everything has to be about education policy

Transcript

If you've got kids who are too young to shuffle or if you have hilariously huge cards like this, here's a trick you might find useful.

So after you deal a card, just skip a couple.

Three is a good number for a lot of games like Go Fish.

Then deal your next card and then skip three more.

deal your next card, and so on.

So depending on the game, it might take a little bit of experimentation to figure out how many cards to skip.

But for a lot of games, three is going to work.

So if you're playing cards in the car, you don't have a flat surface to shuffle on, or if you just hate shuffling, a lot of times this trick will let you skip shuffling completely.

Let me know what you find out.

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