A Short ShuffleMaster Project Update

The ShuffleMaster project has moved quickly over the past few weeks.

What started as an attempt to understand the One2Six mechanism has developed into a working simulation project with a blackjack engine, several card-source models, physical-card identity tracking, discard timing, baseline experiments, and an expanding set of diagnostics.

The site has grown alongside the work, and the series is now becoming harder to follow than it needs to be. I am therefore spending some time tidying the articles, improving the navigation, and making the current state of the project clearer.

I am not rewriting the history of the work or removing early assumptions simply because they later changed. Those assumptions are part of how the project developed. The aim is only to make it easier to see what was known at each stage, what was being modelled, and where the investigation currently stands.

This remains a personal project. I am doing it because the question caught hold of me and I wanted to see how far I could take it.

The recent progress has made the answer increasingly interesting.