Shuffling Cards

To learn how to shuffle a deck of cards, follow these instructions.

Place the deck of cards that are going to be shuffled on a table.

Look through the cards and make sure they are all facing the same direction (face down or up).

Place the cards in a neat pile on the table.

With one hand lift up roughly half of the cards off the pile in one set, and set it next to the other pile.

With one thumb per stack, lift up the edge of the each stack that faces the other stack.

Apply a small amount of force with your hands to the middles of each lifted stack, creating a bend.

Slide each pile towards each other until the lifted edges will overlap if the stacks were to be dropped, with the lifted edges of each stack still facing each other.

Begin slowly sliding both of your thumbs from the bottom card of each stack to the top card, while still applying force to the middle area of each stack being held.

Maintain pressure on the middle part of the stacks until all of the cards have been dropped from your thumbs.

Once all of the cards have been released from your thumbs, slide the two stacks together into one single stack.