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the illusion of randomness performed by hands that mostly cheat themselves

means To mix things into a new order, or to move with short, dragging stepsdepending on whether you're holding cards or just tired.

from A word of Germanic stock, related to 'shove' and 'scuff' — that family of words built on the soft, scraping sound of feet or hands pushing things along a surface. It surfaces in English in the 1500s meaning to move clumsily or shift about, and only later settles into the brisk card-table sense of remixing a deck.

seven shufflesRiffle a deck seven times for true randomness
playlist lieTrue random felt unfair, so Spotify faked it
card countsPossible deck orders exceed atoms on Earth
old wordFrom a Low German term meaning to scrape
dance moveThe Melbourne shuffle stomped into viral fame
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