Playing Card Generator
Create one or more decks, optionally including jokers, then shuffle and deal cards to players using a seed.
Also known as: card shuffler · random cards · deck of cards
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About this tool, tips & examples
What it does
The Random Card Generator shuffles a deck and draws or deals cards for you. Use a standard 52-card deck (optionally with jokers), a 78-card tarot deck, or define a fully custom deck; combine up to 8 decks; and deal to up to 20 players. Because the shuffle is seeded, the exact same deal can be reproduced later — every card, every hand.
Common use cases
- Draw a random card — one card off the top for games, forfeits, or quick decisions.
- Deal practice hands — poker, bridge, blackjack, or any game that needs realistic multi-player deals without physical cards.
- Probability lessons — sampling without replacement, made visible: deal hands and count suits, pairs, or face cards.
- Game prototyping — reproducible deals are perfect fixtures for testing card-game logic and balancing custom decks.
Settings
- Deck type — standard 52-card, tarot (78 cards), or a custom deck where you list the cards yourself.
- Number of decks — shoe-style play with up to 8 combined decks.
- Include jokers — adds two jokers per standard deck.
- Players / Cards per player — deal hands to up to 20 players; the tool won’t let a deal exceed the cards available.
- Seed — the same seed and settings always reproduce the identical shuffle and deal.
Privacy note
Shuffles and deals run entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded or logged. A seeded deal is reproducible by design, which makes it unsuitable for gambling or any contest that requires unpredictable randomness.
FAQ
Is this a real shuffle? It’s a deterministic pseudorandom shuffle of the full deck, driven by your seed — statistically fair (every ordering equally likely) but reproducible on purpose. Change or clear the seed for a different deal.
Can I deal a specific game, like Texas hold’em? Deal 2 cards to each player from a single deck for hold’em hole cards, or 5 per player for draw poker. For ready-made poker and blackjack scenarios, see the Poker Hand and Blackjack Hand tools.
What happens to the rest of the deck? Undealt cards remain in shuffled order and the remaining-card count is shown, so you can treat the leftover pile as a draw stack.
Can I use my own cards? Yes — the custom deck type takes any list of card names, so it works for flashcards, prompts, or house-ruled decks as well as standard playing cards.