How many cards are in a standard deck, not counting jokers?
Answer52
Printed packs often add two jokers, but the standard deck itself has 52 cards.
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7 fact-checked facts about decks of playing cards, each with the reason behind it. 5 more are in today's round and join this page after it closes.
The basics
Which two suits are red in a standard deck?
AnswerHearts and diamonds
Hearts and diamonds are printed in red, while clubs and spades are printed in black.
Going deeper
How many cards of each rank, such as sevens, are in a standard deck?
Answer4
Every rank appears once in each suit.
If you draw one card from a shuffled 52-card deck, what is the chance it is a heart?
Answer1 in 4
Hearts make up 13 of the 52 cards, which is exactly one quarter.
The heart, diamond, club and spade symbols were first developed in which country?
AnswerFrance
Card makers there introduced these simple shapes in the late 1400s, and they were cheap to print with stencils.
Expert level
Roughly how many different orders can a 52-card deck be arranged in?
AnswerAbout 8 × 10^67 (52 factorial)
With 52 factorial possible orders, a thoroughly shuffled deck is almost certainly in an order never seen before.
A well-known 1992 math analysis found about how many riffle shuffles are needed to mix a 52-card deck well?
Answer7
The study showed that around seven riffle shuffles bring a 52-card deck close to a random order.
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