Ken Schrufer
United States
Kingston
New York
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Many board games come with those small decks of cards. I always find it a real pain to shuffle them up good. You can't shuffle them using both hands, riffling them all together like you would a standard size deck.
So what are your best methods to shuffle these and not bend them all up?
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Steve E.
United States
Berkeley
California
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For the cards in Manoeuvre I plop them in the box top and then shake. Seems to work pretty well.
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Zack Boatman
United States
Tesuque
New Mexico
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carefully
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Alex Treacher
United Kingdom
Moorlinch
Somerset
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zboat wrote: carefully
Agreed. All facetiousness aside, I deal with it by simply shuffling like normal, but with greater care...
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Mike Miller
United States
Roseville
Minnesota
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I stack-shuffle them. Grab the stack of cards and deal them out into a random number of stacks, then keep changing what order you deal into the stacks and keep decreasing the number of stacks that get a card until you get to one, then increase until you are dealing a card to every stack. It's easier than it sounds.
That box lid shuffling sounds much easier, but then you may end up with some cards that need to be flipped back over.
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Michael Barlow
Canada
Stratford
Ontario
No one takes the time to read anymore.
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Yup. Stack shuffling works well. Or if the deck is small enough, I leave it all spread out like the kid's game, Memory.
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Steve Duff
Canada
Ottawa
Ontario
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I stack shuffle everything, regardless of card size.
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Ralph T
United States
Signal Hill
California
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Hand shuffle.
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Matt Winckler
United States
Kennewick
Washington
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I usually use stack shuffling, but sometimes I use the Hindu shuffle. (I'm not very good at that yet, though, so odds are high that either the cards won't get randomized much at all or else they'll get very well randomized via the floor.)
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Bartow Riggs
United States
Antelope
California
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Box lid shuffle or swirl shuffle if you have plenty of table space.
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Tony Wai-kit FUNG
Hong Kong
Mongkok
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All my game cards are put in sleeves, even small cards. I can easily weave-shuffle them. Several weaves already make a deck totally random.
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