Random Playing Card Generator & Deck Shuffler

Need a random playing card for a game, a magic trick, a classroom probability lesson or a card-a-day challenge? This page draws cards from a standard 52-card deck — with two jokers if you like, and up to eight decks shuffled together — shuffles the whole deck, or deals hands to several players. Cards are never repeated within a draw, and every shuffle is made with your browser’s secure random number generator.

How to use this tool

1. Choose to draw cards, shuffle the whole deck or deal hands.
2. Set how many cards to draw, or the number of players and cards each.
3. Choose the number of decks and whether to include jokers.
4. Press the button and read the cards; sort them by suit or rank to make hands easier to read.

Formula

P(a given card) = copies in the deck ÷ cards in the deck; number of possible orders of one deck = 52! ≈ 8.07 × 10⁶⁷

The deck is shuffled with a Fisher–Yates draw that uses unbiased secure random integers, so every order of the cards is equally likely — something a few riffle shuffles by hand do not achieve (about seven are needed). Dealing hands out one card to each player in turn, as at a real table; it gives the same chances as dealing in blocks.

Example

Drawing one card from a single deck gives each card a 1 in 52 chance (1.92%), and an ace a 4 in 52 chance (7.69%). Dealing 4 players 13 cards each uses the whole deck, as in bridge; the chance that a given hand holds all four aces is about 0.26%.