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You would think being random would be an easy thing to achieve wouldn't you?  However, as magicians who have ever tried to shuffle cards out of 'new deck' order you know just how difficult it can be to achieve that perfect 'random' look. Take a new deck of Bicycle cards. You perform a perfect riffle shuffle on the pack. All of the black cards are now at one end and all of the reds are at the other. You do it again. They are now perfectly alternating which looks staged. Chances are you have to thoroughly mix them up several times,...