article_snippet: a good mix are well adept at the card manoeuvre, this could take less than 30 seconds.
article_snippet: One minute of smooshing guarantees a random pack of cards.
article_snippet: It takes 200 or so 'pokes' to randomise a deck, making progress slow.
article_snippet: It needs to be done for around one minute for the cards to be truly random and difficult to guess .
article_snippet: In the simplest form of shuffling, where a person takes one card from the top of a deck and inserts one card at random, one card would take ‘200 or so pokes’ before a deck is random.
highlights_snippet: The 'smooshing' or wash method takes one minute to randomise cards .