DID YOU KNOW A perfect shuffle is called a ‘riffle.‘ There are two types: an ‘in shuffle‘ where a pack of cards is split exactly in half (a bottom and top) and then each half of the deck is interwoven so that every other card comes from the same half of the deck.
In the mid to late 90’s people began getting computers in their homes. Microsoft touted ‘Solitaire’ as the way to teach them how to use the computer mouse but in reality Wes Cherry (its creator and an intern at Microsoft at the time) said, “it was something just to have fun with.”
If you owned or worked on a computer in the late 1990’s chances are you played one of Microsoft’s pre-installed games: Freecell, Hearts, Minesweeper or Solitaire. Solitaire was developed by intern Wes Cherry in 1989 and renowned for its ‘solitaire effect’ of cascading cards that appeared at the end of the game.
Not only was it the first graphical adventure video game but Atari’s ‘Adventure‘ was also the first to feature an ‘Easter egg’ (a purposely hidden secret in a game) that could be discovered by players. The back story is that Atari wouldn’t give game designers public credit for their work.
DID YOU KNOW A wash aka the Corgi shuffle or a scramble is often made at the beginning of a card game when the deck is still in the order it was packaged in. Washing is done so everyone (players and dealer alike) are satisfied that they’re about to play in a fair game.
