{"id":278467,"date":"2017-02-23T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f64c771ec972170c095d152912414737"},"modified":"2017-02-23T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T13:00:02","slug":"heres-the-best-way-to-shuffle-a-pack-of-cards-with-a-little-help-from-some-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=278467","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the best way to shuffle a pack of cards &ndash; with a little help from some maths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shuffling a pack of cards isn&#8217;t as easy as you think, not if you want to truly randomise the cards. Most people will give a pack a few shuffles with the overhand or riffle methods (where the pack is split and the two halves are interweaved). But research has shown this isn&#8217;t enough to produce a sufficiently random order to make sure the card game being played is completely fair and to prevent people cheating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shuffling a pack of cards isn&#8217;t as easy as you think, not if you want to truly randomise the cards. Most people will give a pack a few shuffles with the overhand or riffle methods (where the pack is split and the two halves are interweaved). But resear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278468,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278467\/revisions\/278468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}