[humodz]

1. Grab at least 4 cards of each suit

2. Sort them to follow a repeating pattern of 4 distinct suits, e.g. ♥♦♣♠♥♦♣♠♥♦♣♠...

2. Cut the deck, putting the top part under the bottom part

3. (The deck will still have that pattern, but shifted by an unknown amount)

4. Counting out from the top, remove the following cards:

- 1st, 5th, 9th, 13th

- 2nd, 6th

- 3rd, 7th

Or: take 3, skip 1, take 3, skip 1, take 1, skip 3, take 1

Each of these groups will be of the same suit, so the deck should have the figgy distribution.

[xboxnolifes]

This sounds like the most annoying possible way to play a game that is expected to be done a dozen times per hour.

[AngryData]

That is a much cleverer solution than I thought up using two different people to randomize the set of 4 suits against each other to prevent peeks.

I guess either works though. For speed you would likely want the players to help either sort by suit or sort by a 4 suit pattern.

[tangjurine]

or sort them into piles and have people shuffle the piles?

[humodz]

I should've clarified that, but I wanted to find out how to do it as a single person.