Card Sharks with USB Sticks: Cheating at Cards in the Modern Age

Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker · Nov 20, 2025 · 49m · transcript

(0:00) Open

(2:44) Not Cheating at Cards

(17:50) Really Cheating at Cards

(23:51) High Tech Cheating

(24:57) How Many Orders of a 52-Card Deck Exist?

(29:25) Magic Decks & A Cutable Deck Where You Always Win

(31:40) Introducing the DeckMate

(34:08) A Big Surprise at Hustler

(36:25) Hacking the Unhackable Shuffling Machine

(46:01) cj’s recommendation: Oceans Eleven

(47:15) Jeff’s Recommendation: The Sting

Jeff and cj take a wild ride through the world of card-game “edges” on this pre-Thanksgiving break extra length episode!

Starting with the respectable stuff: game theory, probability, and…