by JohnnyMac » Oct 19th, '17, 18:23
I'll sometimes say that the cards can be mixed in different ways.
"Here, in Britain, we like to most do the overhand shuffle."
"In the wild west casinos, they would often shuffle like this (doing a riffle shuffle, or Faro)."
"In the east, they would do the Hindu shuffle..."
I then sometimes make reference to the huge number permutations by saying something like:
"Did you know, there are more different ways the cards can be ordered than there are atoms in the earth?" (this bit at least, is actually true, there are far, far more. i.e. Factorial 52 for the maths people).
Nothing to do with the above, but it still fascinates me that there are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the Universe.
John