Execute a Superb Shuffle™

Question

For the purposes of this question, a deck of cards is formatted in this way:

[
  "AS", "2S", "3S", "4S", "5S", "6S", "7S", "8S", "9S", "10S", "JS", "QS", "KS", 
  "AD", "2D", "3D", "4D", "5D", "6D", "7D", "8D", "9D", "10D", "JD", "QD", "KD", 
  "AH", "2H", "3H", "4H", "5H", "6H", "7H", "8H", "9H", "10H", "JH", "QH", "KH", 
  "AC", "2C", "3C", "4C", "5C", "6C", "7C", "8C", "9C", "10C", "JC", "QC", "KC", 
  "J", "J"
]

Cards are always formatted as value, followed by suits. E.g. AS is the Ace of Spades. The two single J's are Jokers. We want to shuffle this deck of cards, but the shuffle must be Superb™.

A Superb Shuffle™ is one in which:

• No two cards (except Jokers) of the same suit are adjacent.
• No card (except Jokers) is adjacent to one of the same value.
• No card (except Jokers) is adjacent to one of an adjacent value (one higher or one lower in this order, A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A. Notice that Ace can not be adjacent to either a 2 or a King).
• The Jokers can be in any position.
• The definition of a Superb Shuffle™ does not require the cards to be in a different order each time they are shuffled. Which isn't very superb, but it is Superb™.

Because that's Superb™.

An example might be:

[
  "AS", "5D", "9H", "KC", "2D", "6H", "10C", "QS", "3H", "7C", "9S", 
  "KD", "4C", "6S", "10D", "AC", "3S", "7D", "JH", "J", "4D", "8H", 
  "QC", "AD", "5H", "9C", "JS", "2H", "6C", "8S", "QD", "3C", "5S", 
  "9D", "KH", "2S", "6D", "10H", "J", "3D", "7H", "JC", "KS", "4H", 
  "8C", "10S", "AH", "5C", "7S", "JD", "2C", "4S", "8D", "QH"
]

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The challenge:

• Write some code to execute a superb shuffle
• Use any language.
• The input can be either:
  • a deck of cards as described above in the same order, as an array or other list structure.
  • No input (the code generates a deck of cards in that order)
• The output must be a full deck of cards in a Superb Shuffle™ as described above.
• Attempt to perform your Superb Shuffle™ in the smallest number of bytes.
• A link to an online interpreter such as Try It Online is preferred, but optional.

Happy shuffling!

Answer 1

Ruby, 31 bytes

->x{(0..53).map{|r|x[r*17%54]}}

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Explanation:

I'm picking one card, then skipping over the next 16 and start from the first card when I reach the last card of the deck. 17 and 54 are mutually prime, so I'm sure to pick all cards.

The 17th position is guaranteed to be a different suit and the difference in value is at least 2: the 13th (or 15th) card has the same value and a different suit, so by skipping other 4 (or 2), the value is right.

Answer 2

Python 3, 21 bytes

lambda x:(x*17)[::17]

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Explanation:

The same idea as my Ruby answer, but even shorter in Python: I use 17 decks, and pick every 17th card.

Answer 3

Japt, 6 5 4 bytes

Splits the input array into sub-arrays of every 16th element and flattens.

óG c

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Answer 4

Java 10, 72 65 bytes

d->{var r=d.clone();for(int i=54;i-->0;r[i*7%54]=d[i]);return r;}

Similar as @GB's Ruby answer, but by using i*7%54 on the result-array, instead of i*17%54 on the input-array to save a byte.

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Explanation:

d->{              // Method with String-array as both parameter and return-type
  var r=d.clone();//  Result-String, starting as a copy of the input
  for(int i=54;i-->0;
                  //   Loop `i` in the range (54, 0]
    r[            //    Set an item in the result-array at index:
      i*7%54      //     Index `i` multiplied by 7, and then take modulo-54
     ]=d[i]);     //    To the `i`'th item in the input-Deck
  return r;}      //  Return the result-Array

Answer 5

JavaScript, 35 bytes

x=>x.map((a,i)=>i%2?a:x[(i+20)%54])

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Taking an array of deck as input, and replacing each odd value with another card that is "20 cards" away on the deck.

Answer 6

JavaScript, 27

Another one based off of the ruby answer

d=>d.map((_,i)=>d[i*17%54])

Edited in an obvious shortening

Answer 7

Perl 6, 21 20 18 bytes

Thanks to Brad Gilbert b2gills for -2 bytes

{.[$++*17%$_]xx$_}

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Yet another port of G B's answer. Note that, while the global variable $! is not reset between functions, the value doesn't matter, since any order of the output is valid. However, $ is reset.

Explanation:

{                } #Anonymous code block
             xx$_  #Repeat size of inputted array (54) times
 .[         ]      #Get from the inputted array, the value at index
    $++*17%$_         #The incremented variable, multiplied by 17, modded by size of the array

Answer 8

05AB1E, 9 7 5 bytes

ā17*è

Port of @GB's Ruby answer, so make sure to upvote him!

-2 bytes by printing each card with a new-line delimiter instead of wrapping it to a result-list
-2 bytes thanks to @Mr.Xcoder

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Explanation:

ā        # 1-indexed length range [1 ... length_of_input_list (54)]
 17*     #  `k`: Multiply each index by 17
    è    #  And then replace each item with the 0-indexed `k`'th card of the input-list
         #  (with automatic wrap-around)

Answer 9

T-SQL, 31 bytes

SELECT c FROM t ORDER BY i*7%54

If you don't care about an extra column in the output I can get it down to 29 bytes:

SELECT*FROM t ORDER BY i*7%54

So you can verify my output is "Superb", here is the deck it produces:

 J, 5H,  8S, KH, 3D,  8C, JD, AS, 6H,  9S, AC, 4D, 9C, QD, 
2S, 7H, 10S, 2C, 5D, 10C, KD, 3S, 8H,  JS, 3C, 6D, JC, 
AH, 4S,  9H, QS, 4C,  7D, QC, 2H, 5S, 10H, KS, 5C, 8D, 
KC, 3H,  6S, JH, AD,  6C, 9D,  J, 4H,  7S, QH, 2D, 7C, 10D

(Generated using the new SQL 2017 addition, STRING_AGG):

SELECT STRING_AGG(c,', ')WITHIN GROUP(ORDER BY i*7%54)FROM t 

The hard part for me was not the select code, it was populating the input table (which is allowed for SQL per our IO rules).

Because SQL is inherently unordered (it only guarantees a certain order if you include an explicit ORDER BY clause), I had to include that original order as a field i in the input table t. This also means I can use it to sort, using the same "relatively prime" factor/mod process everyone else is using. I found that i*7%54 worked just as well as i*17%54.

Here are the commands to set up and populate the input table t, based on my solution to this related question:

CREATE TABLE t (i INT IDENTITY(1,1), c VARCHAR(5))

--Insert 52 suited cards
INSERT t(c)
SELECT v.value+s.a as c
FROM STRING_SPLIT('A-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-J-Q-K','-')v,
     (VALUES('S',1),('D',2),('H',3),('C',4))s(a,b)
ORDER BY s.b

--Insert Jokers
INSERT t(c) SELECT 'J'
INSERT t(c) SELECT 'J'

Answer 10

Jelly,  5  4 bytes

s⁴ZẎ

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Turns out the way everyone else everyone else except The random guy is doing it saves a byte :(
Credit to G B for their method.

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The way I went...

ṙÐe20

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How?

Fix every other card and intersperse it with a rotation of the deck left by 20 places (18 and 22 places also work; furthermore so does either direction of rotation as well as fixing either odd or even cards)

ṙÐe20 - Link: list of the card strings (lists of characters)
   20 - place a literal twenty on the right
 Ðe   - apply to even indices:
ṙ     -   rotate left (by 20)

That is (using T for 10 and rj & bj for the Js):

input: AS 2S 3S 4S 5S 6S 7S 8S 9S TS JS QS KS AD 2D 3D 4D 5D 6D 7D 8D 9D TD JD QD KD AH 2H 3H 4H 5H 6H 7H 8H 9H TH JH QH KH AC 2C 3C 4C 5C 6C 7C 8C 9C TC JC QC KC rj bj
  ṙ20: 8D 9D TD JD QD KD AH 2H 3H 4H 5H 6H 7H 8H 9H TH JH QH KH AC 2C 3C 4C 5C 6C 7C 8C 9C TC JC QC KC rj bj AS 2S 3S 4S 5S 6S 7S 8S 9S TS JS QS KS AD 2D 3D 4D 5D 6D 7D
ṙÐe20: AS 9D 3S JD 5S KD 7S 2H 9S 4H JS 6H KS 8H 2D TH 4D QH 6D AC 8D 3C TD 5C QD 7C AH 9C 3H JC 5H KC 7H bj 9H 2S JH 4S KH 6S 2C 8S 4C TS 6C QS 8C AD TC 3D QC 5D rj 7D

Answer 11

PowerShell 3.0, 30 26 Bytes

$args[(0..53|%{$_*17%54})]

^{-4 thanks to Mazzy}
Old code at 30 bytes

param($d)0..53|%{$d[$_*17%54]}

Another port of G B's method.

Answer 12

Charcoal, 8 bytes

Ｅθ§θ×¹⁷κ

Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code. Another port of @GB's Ruby answer. Explanation:

 θ          Input array
Ｅ           Map over elements
       κ    Current index
     ¹⁷     Literal 17
    ×       Multiply
   θ        Input array
  §         Cyclically index
            Implicitly print each result on its own line

Answer 13

Red, 44 bytes

func[a][append/dup a a 16 prin extract a 17]

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Another interpetation of G B's code. I append 16 copies of the deck to itself and then extract each 17th card.