ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Riffle

Okay kiddo, you know how when you play with cards you usually shuffle them? Well, a riffle is a special kind of shuffle that helps mix up the cards really well.

It’s kind of like when you mix colors together with paint. If you want to make purple, you mix red and blue together. If you want to shuffle a deck of cards, you use a riffle to mix up the cards and make them all mixed up, just like the way red and blue mix to make purple.

When you riffle, you take half the deck and hold it in one hand, and the other half in the other hand. Then, you let the cards go one by one, like a little waterfall that drops into your other hand.

The cool thing is, when you do it right, the cards will mix together perfectly so that there aren’t any clusters of one suit or number. This is important because it makes the game more fair for everyone playing.

So basically, a riffle is just a fancy way of shuffling cards to keep things fair and mix things up!