About the Playing Card Picker
Need a card without a deck in your hand? This picker draws playing cards at random from a freshly shuffled deck. Choose how many cards to draw, up to the whole deck, and whether to include the two jokers. No card appears twice in one draw, just as when you deal from a real deck. Press Generate for a new shuffle. Type how many cards and whether to add jokers and the playing cards appears at once, with a few related figures underneath, and you can copy the result with one tap. The sums run in your browser, so nothing you enter is uploaded.
Updated October 2026
How to use the Playing Card Picker
- 1Enter how many cards and whether to add jokers.
- 2Pick the units or options from the menus if the playing cards tool offers them.
- 3Read the playing cards in the large result box.
- 4Look at the extra rows for related figures.
- 5Press Copy result to keep the answer.
When you need the playing cards
Players use it for card games when a deck is missing, for magic tricks and demonstrations, and for teaching probability. Teachers use it to pick students or tasks, and game designers use it to test hands.
There are about 8 × 10⁶⁷ different orders of a deck, so every shuffle is almost certainly one that has never occurred before. The picker makes a new draw each time.
How the playing cards is worked out
The deck has 13 ranks (A, 2 to 10, J, Q, K) in four suits (♠ ♥ ♦ ♣), 52 cards. The draw picks cards without replacement using secure random numbers. A hand of five cards might read K♠ 7♦ A♥ 10♣ 3♠. Drawing all 52 gives a full shuffled deck. Each card has the same chance, so the probability of a given card in a five-card hand is 5 in 52.
Every answer on this page comes from that one rule, so you can check any result by hand with a calculator. The figures shown underneath, such as other units, are conversions of the same answer.
- Optional jokers
- Up to a full deck
- No repeats in a draw
Mistakes to avoid with playing cards
The tool deals from one deck at a time, and each press makes a fresh shuffle, so cards from earlier presses may come up again. For several players at the same table, press once and share the cards from a single draw.
On phone and computer
On a phone, type into the boxes one after another and read the playing cards underneath; Copy result puts it on the clipboard for a message or a note. On a computer the inputs sit on the left and the answer on the right, so you can change one figure and watch the playing cards move. The playing card picker works the same on both. A random card is just one kind of chance. Roll with the Dice Roller, toss with the Coin Flip Simulator, and use the Spin the Wheel tool when you want to pick between options.
Features
- Fresh shuffle each press
- Share one draw at a table
- Secure random numbers
- Clear messages when the playing cards inputs make no sense
- Copy the result with one tap
- Private: nothing is uploaded
Frequently asked questions
How do I calculate playing cards?
The deck has 13 ranks (A, 2 to 10, J, Q, K) in four suits (♠ ♥ ♦ ♣), 52 cards. The draw picks cards without replacement using secure random numbers. A hand of five cards might read K♠ 7♦ A♥ 10♣ 3♠. Drawing all 52 gives a full shuffled deck. Each card has the same chance, so the probability of a given card in a five-card hand is 5 in 52.
What is the formula for playing cards?
The deck has 13 ranks (A, 2 to 10, J, Q, K) in four suits (♠ ♥ ♦ ♣), 52 cards. The draw picks cards without replacement using secure random numbers. The playing card picker applies it exactly and rounds only the displayed answer to six significant figures.
How many cards are in a standard deck?
52, plus two jokers in many decks.
Is the shuffle fair?
Yes. The draw uses your browser's secure random number generator.
What is the chance of a pair in five cards?
About 42 percent for exactly one pair.
Is this playing card picker free and private?
Yes. It is free, needs no account and runs in your browser, so the numbers you type are not uploaded or stored.