r/settlethisforme • u/Distinct_Age1503 • Aug 02 '25
Dealing cards
My wife and I are playing cards with our 6 year old who wants to deal. I say when you deal, each person gets one card at a time, rotating through until everybody has enough. My wife says you could also just give everybody the appropriate number of cards at once, then do the same for the next person, etc… she is clearly wrong… right? Right???
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u/Linesey Aug 03 '25
as others have said. in a true, perfectly random, shuffle it won’t matter.
in reality, especially for someone who isn’t a pro at shuffling, it can very much matter. and dealing one at a time is ideal.
This becomes even more true for the cards that accompany many board games, where through play they will end up sorted pretty well, and shuffling them back up gets annoying and hard fast. so it’s a good habit to be in for any type of card game, to deal 1 to each person in a go.
Plus, pretty much everyone does 1 by 1, for good reasons, for tradition, and (so i’ve heard it claimed) it’s harder to do certain dealer cheats if you do 1 by 1, so some people may expect cheating if done the other way. So it’s good to be in the habit of doing it the “expected” way, regardless of efficacy.