There’s something timeless about a deck of cards and the mystery it holds in the hands of a skilled magician. From casino tables to living rooms, card tricks captivate audiences because they blend ...

Here’s the rule: To assure cards get sufficiently mixed up, shuffle a deck about seven times. Mathematician, magician and card shark Persi Diaconis of Stanford University, along with David Bayer of ...

If you've been feeling stymied in your never-ending quest for total coolness (I know I have), WikiHow has a tutorial on how to cut and shuffle a deck of cards one-handed. As someone who spent the last ...

A decades-old proof showed that seven shuffles are enough to mix up a deck of cards. But it requires you to cut the deck with the precision of a professional magician. A new proof gets around that ...