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by tridentboy 2138 days ago
Well, it seems that his point still stands. Overhand shuffle is terrible for actually shuffling a deck of cards.
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Assuming 4 shuffles per second, 3000 shuffles would take about 12.5 minutes, while 10000 shuffles would take more than 40 minutes. One of those sounds feasible during a break on a casual game night.

Of course, those numbers apply only if the shuffle is done literally—I personally try to mix individual cards by letting one hand’s batch cut in-between the other’s (and I think I’m not the only one)—but I’m still curious where did those 10000 come from.