Sentences with phrase «shuffled deck of cards»

An iPhone app plays every configuration of a shuffled deck of cards as a new sequence of notes on a marimba, displaying each card onscreen.

In front of a stunned audience at the next year's U.S.A. Memory Championship, held in New York City, Foer memorized the order of a shuffled deck of cards in 1 minute 40 seconds, then a U.S. record, and went on to win the event.

I asked Nelson for a technique that would help anyone (even me) memorize something that seems impossible — memorize the order of a shuffled deck of cards.

When one shuffles a deck of cards, one is really randomizing it — the whole point of shuffling.

«In the last decade or so,» Liu said, «many researchers have shown that all of those different ways of being totally disordered do have something important in common, like how likely you are to draw a certain hand even given all of the ways you can shuffle a deck of cards.

Shuffle the deck of cards and you're ready to play.

The phrase «blind cut» describes a trick by a stage magician who appears to but does not actually shuffle a deck of cards.

Writing software is like shuffling a deck of cards.

Of course, the way we humans currently write software, literature and music is unlike shuffling a deck of cards to the extent that it is artful.

And, yes, I can shuffle a deck of cards here, too.

Not exact matches

But when we shuffle a deck, we are not escaping in any way from God's absolute control over events: God knows and wills in exact detail from all eternity that I will shuffle the deck, precisely how I will shuffle the deck, and what the order of the cards will be after I shuffle the deck.

In the 14 years since the World Memory Championships was founded, no one has memorized the order of a shuffled deck of playing cards in less than 30 seconds.

The landscapes around Las Vegas present an exceptionally stark account of plate tectonics in action, as nearly 2 billion years of pushing and shoving have scrambled the layers of the earth's crust — aptly enough, not unlike a deck of shuffled cards.

If you have two identical decks and shuffle each blindly, you would expect to see two independent patterns of cards.

«These genes are like decks of cards constantly being shuffled,» explains William Hamilton, a first author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

The five tasks included listing the hypothetical results of a series of 12 coin flips so that they would «look random to somebody else,» guessing which card would appear when selected from a randomly shuffled deck, and listing the hypothetical results of 10 rolls of a die — «the kind of sequence you'd get if you really rolled a die.»

«These genes are like decks of cards constantly being shuffled,» explains Will Hamilton, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Others might shuffle until they get a feeling to stop and pick the card on top of the deck at that moment.

MAGNOLIA Director Paul Thomas Ander son («Boogie Nights») shuffles the stories of nine major characters like a deck of cards over three solid hours until it all comes together to show just how comic, terrifying and unpredictable life can be.

Bouncing between Molly's rise in L.A.'s Viper Room to her fight against legal investigation and total bankruptcy, Sorkin's drama shuffles language like a deck of cards, the staccato sentences of his poker - playing spitfires punctuated by the witty English equivalent of flops, turns, and rivers.

When not collecting cards and shuffling decks in Culdcept Revolt, Ricky Berg's been spending the remainder of his time tending to the pastures and townsfolk of Stardew Valley.

Characters come and go seemingly at random, the scenes are shuffled together like a disordered deck of playing cards, and even Day - Lewis doesn't get enough screen time to reveal much past a surface of anecdote - spouting folky wisdom and a slightly deeper surface of crafty political power - player.

It's a daffy send - up of the Hollywood studio system circa 1950, when chiefs ran the show and stars were just playthings to be shuffled and traded like cards in a deck.

Leap of Fate has you work through card - based stages in order to uncover the pasts of four fateful heroes so if you're up for it; let's shuffle the deck.

Alone in her room, she retreats behind a wall of silence, writing in her journal and shuffling through a deck of lotería cards.

Once that's done you then take the discarded summoning cards, shuffle them and put them back on top of the summoning deck, which obviously means that all the prior locations which were hit by cultists are now targets again.

There's four of these horrible things, and at the start of the game you split the player deck into four roughly even piles and add one Evil Stirs card to each before shuffling them and then stacking them together to create a sort of even distribution that stops you from running into more than two in quick succession.

Successfully achieve the objectives laid before you, which usually involve fully exploring the final area and killing some baddies, and good cards will be added to what is referred to as the «campaign pool», which essentially mean a collection of cards that get shuffled into the various decks for every missions.

They also create an event deck by picking three sets of cards to shuffle together.

You also need to create the initiative deck by taking one demon card for each enemy type on the board (this step gets repeated at the beginning of every new round) and one marine card for each marine player and then shuffle them together.

The next leg of the journey is revealed, and everyone shuffles their deck and draws six new cards.

I made a deck of cards, each with one character on them, and we shuffle them up and use them as a more interesting way of playing with a variety of characters than simply hitting random.

The program draws its name from Rauschenberg's Synapsis Shuffle (1999), a painting comprised of fifty - two parts, as in a deck of cards.

Get some dice, write down what you're going to roll, then roll the dice, or a deck of cards shuffle well, write what the top card is, then turn it over.

Shuffle it however you will, it's still a deck of cards.