John N. Hansen Six-Deck Automatic Playing Card Shuffler for Easy and Quick Card Mixing

Gerald Conlon: First the card shuffler came in it's original box (light material not corrugated) The box was partially open and bent. I was not happy when I received it. I did try it and it appears to be working fine. The arm where the cards get shuffled into is stiff. I am hoping in time it glides a little easier. If not I will have to remove the card after about 4 decks being shuffled. I am giving it 4 stars because of the way it was shipped and because I won't know for sure how it runs until I am using it for a real game. We play Somba 9 decks so the shuffler gets used continually between hands. This shuffler is rated for 6 decks. We use two shufflers to shuffle those 9 decks.

United States on Jul 24, 2023

Mark Zwicker: For the money this is a good product. It is not a high quality product but for under $25 you can't expect more. They have made some improvements in the past year but the weakest points still exist. We are on our third machine in a year and a half but play more than one game of Canasta per day. Will buy again.

United States on Oct 25, 2021

VAPenny: When my friends and I decided to plan a Canasta game that requires one deck of cards more than the number of players (there are four of us), shuffling five decks with each hand (four hands for each game), we found we needed more than we could do over the course of an evening of play.
What a wonderful shuffler this has been.
So far there has been no drawbacks...this works for us perfectly.
All I need to do is keep several batteries handy, in case we work it too hard.

United States on Jul 10, 2021

marvaleo: There are two vendors on Amazon for this product with slightly different pricing. A group of us have purchased half a dozen from the other vendor over a period of about 2 years - 2 failed and had to be replaced within the 30-day period, one failed a month later. Some work better than others - 2 still work very well. The picture on this one looked different and the reviews read better, so I ordered one thinking it was made by a different manufacturer. Wrong - it's the same manufacturer. So far, so good, but it's not been quite 30 days yet.

We need to shuffle between 5 and 6 decks - the hints in the reviews have helped: Shuffle maybe 3 decks at a time rather than all 6 decks; tap the cards together so the edges are even; be sure the clear plastic plate is held firmly against the outside... Most of the hints are to help guide the cards so the leading edges are even and parallel.

We'd still like to find a shuffler of better quality...but it sure beats shuffling 6 decks by hand!

United States on Aug 21, 2012

Doxycycline: I purchased this card shuffler because my daughter and I love to play Uno but don't much like all the shuffling that's required after each game. The shuffling is required because a game of Uno results in a deck that's well-sorted by color (a bunch of red cards followed by a bunch of yellow cards, etc) and to break up this order for the next game, we have to shuffle by hand quite a bit. I thought that this device would be the answer to our troubles but it doesn't seem to have worked out that way.

Unfortunately, the machine will only do a single shuffle at a time so if you need the deck shuffled many times (as we do), then you will have to load the machine, shuffle the cards, collect the cards, reload the machine, reshuffle the cards, etc, etc. several times. After practicing some, I found that each round required about 30 seconds so shuffling the deck seven times requires about 3 1/2 minutes of work (and, of course, it takes seven perfect shuffles to randomize a 52 card deck; larger decks such as for Uno will require more shuffles). Splitting the deck exactly in half before loading the card shuffler is also a must - if the cards are not exactly divided then you'll find that...

United States on Sep 08, 2011