That is where you take the number of cards and multiply up. We have 52 different cards in a deck, so that would be 1x2x3x4x5x6x7x9.....and you keep going until you hit 52. According to McGill ...

Obviously, and this should go without saying, you will need a deck of cards in addition to your golf clubs. Number of players required: Two or three is fine but the game is at its best with four.

Math — and some clever simulations — have revealed how many shuffles are required to randomize a deck of 52 cards, but there’s a bit more to it than that. There are different shuffling ...