KPAW Automatic Card Shuffler and Dealer - 1-2 Decks Support 12 Players

This KPAW combo shuffler/dealer works! I decided on KPAW because of having good experience with their shuffler. Their shuffler is good, but for card games I also wanted an auto dealer. It is not much bigger than their shuffler and is portable. My advice is purchase extra remotes if you have more than four players as only four remotes are included. I suggest paying attention to how it directionally deals will improve your game setup. Sit your players first so they are equal distance from each other in a circle, then with the KPAW in the center of that circle, deal one card to each. Note where each go and move/turn the device so it aligns with the players. Remotes don’t control where cards go, but correspond to player position number in clockwise manner. Some remotes were harder to twist to their desired number, but you only need to pair each to a different number once. Hand out the remotes clockwise in numerical order. Many games are already pre-programmed which help with setup of your favorites. So it’s fun to use and good for gameplay. But, is it worth the money? For card-game players who appreciate an automatic card shuffler, the answer is Yes!

We've been really happy with this card shuffler and dealer. It shuffles fast, deals cards accurately, and saves a lot of time compared to doing everything by hand. The different player settings are easy to use, making it great for a variety of card games. I also love that it's rechargeable instead of requiring disposable batteries. One full charge lasts a long time. If you play cards regularly with family or friends, this is definitely worth getting. It works exactly as expected and makes every game much easier.

We added this to our ever-growing toy collection after one of our game-day participants showed off theirs. A varying group of half a dozen senior neighbors and friends meet at least once a week to play games, with the goal of improving or at least maintaining memory and cognitive help. Lots of card games mixed with lots of conversation is doing the job. The shuffler-dealer is a neat piece of kit. The shuffle function is interesting but probably isn't sufficient on its own for any serious competitive cardplay. Your card deck is manually split into two stacks, each stack is placed on an opposing tray. Push the button, and the two stacks are blended with alternating cards from each stack. If I do a bit of randomizing (read: spread the cards out on the table and scoop them back into a pile) before loading the shuffler, there's a much better chance of getting a true shuffle result from the machine. The real value is in the Dealer function. It took me a few reads of the instructions and tries with the buttons to figure out some of the "programming"; There are several ">" buttons on the machine in various trims, which added to the initial challenge. Once we figured out which of those to press to get the functions we needed to adjust, it went a lot more smoothly. The little button remotes for players are perhaps the most fun part. There are four in the package, 1 for each player. Th instructions described 'pairing' each remote, but we discovered that our were already paired so one less step in setup. For many card games, you might depend on a Dealer to pass you a certain number of cards after the initial deal; with this machine, you just tap the button once for each card you want. The machine turns toward you and spits out the cards you requested. The battery in the machine is rechargeable, and easily lasts through a couple hours of cardplay. At least at the pace we play. There's a battery icon on the display that shows the charge status, and it hasn't dropped below what appears to be about 75% charge. Charging is simple with any USB-C charger. The package includes a USB to USB-C charging cable, but does not include a charger cube. The one you use to charge your phone, and the USB-C cable for that, will do the duty nicely without hogging another wall outlet space. In operation, the machine does some low-level whirring as it shuffles and deals, noticeable but hardly loud enough to interrupt conversation. Definitely less distraction than having to manually grab the deck and deal, especially if I otherwise have to ask players "how many cards?" at each turn. The whirring is much quieter than a human dealer with some HOH senior players, and doesn't interrupt conversation flow at the table. All Good. Our friends have had theirs for several months, with four-plus ours of use every week. No signs of problems, and no signs of wear. We are looking forward to the same for ours. Theirs won't suffer the joy of getting packed and transported for our rotating-hosts schedule, so should last even longer. Conclusion: Happy with the purchase.

This is an excellent card shuffler and dealer. It shuffles and deals very fast. Battery holds a charge a for many weeks of game play. We have a game group, many of us are older with stiff hands that make it hard to shuffle. The shuffler is really nice for us. The dealer is way faster and more accurate than we are. We play a variety of card games and this is easy to set up the variables for each game. The only down side for us is that we do like to shuffle at least three times between deals and you have to pull the cards out to shuffle multiple times. This is a minor inconvenience compared to the benefits for us.

This gizmo is awesome with a couple of caveats. First off it works really well with no jams, misdeals, etc. This is saying something as we loaded it with a double deck of cards that we had used for years. It handled them with ease. The capabilities seem "endless". Built-in deal setups cover the usual and the custom can handle any other game you have in mind. Two quirky things: you should really plan to shuffle a little by hand. It seems the system works so well that it literally takes one card from each side in sequence. For a good shuffle you either need to feed the card through a few times (splitting the deck in between) or give a quick hand shuffled or two. The "random dealing" helps on the initial shuffle/deal but if you play a game where the cards get recycled (like UNO or SkipBo) you need to plan on a little manual shuffling. Second caveat regard the "pucks" used to request cards. We still haven't figured out the logic BUT when you shuffle cards the order of the pucks rotates. If player #1 (puck #1) is able to get cards correctly but then a shuffle is done in the middle of the game pressing puck #1 might deal to player #3. Hope that makes sense. Otherwise this thing is a gem! We've had it a while now and it still is entertaining and useful.

Initially just wanted to find an electronic card shuffler, and came across this unit. The card shuffling works as expected, although with dark-backed cards (like Dos cards) it sometimes stops a little early, requiring you to hit the shuffle button again. But you can get battery powered or hand crank shufflers for $20, so thats not really the killer feature. The killer feature is the dispensing, and the buttons to dispense. Getting games added, even those with custom rules, isn't terribly complex, after you've done it once or twice, you can do it from memory. Preloaded games include common playing card games and Uno, which is good for our use cases, as we're using Uno to teach our kids numbers and colors. For example, playing Dos requires the game to dispense 7 cards per player, and then two discards. Getting this set up is trivial, and works every time. The remotes are neat, although it would have been nice to have them paired to the device at the factory. I purchased some additional remotes to enable more players, and once they're paired they stay paired fairly well. Having the device spin towards you and spit out a card is pretty cool the first and hundredth time it happens. Battery life is impressive, with the unit hitting half power charge remaining after many hours of gaming. It charges using USB-C, so you probably already have chargers on hand, and can hit a full charge in a couple of hours.

Works exactly as advertised. I am unable to shuffle cards and deal due to thumb damage, this item puts me back in the game. Lots of card games pre-programmed. Not that hard to change to add or delete players. Moves the fun along faster and accurately.

It’s really cool and it’s great, but I thought when you can custom program that you could like really customize the location of where it’s dealing and really tell it this many cards here and then when you’re done dealing then deal each player five other stacks and do all that and it just is lacking in program ability but other than that it’s like simple for basic dealing. It’s pretty cool saves you some time. Shuffling is almost one to one card. It’s like one card over the other so it’s it doesn’t feel very random for shuffling just feels Mechanical, but it works. It also only holds two decks. That was the biggest thing that I didn’t know I needed something that holds a minimum of 4 to 6 decks and this is nowhere near that.

Super Investition, wenn auch etwas teuer. Vorallem gut zum Kartenmischen. Will bei uns keiner machen. Die Ausgabefunktion lässt noch was zu wünschen über, da die Karten nicht immer da landen wo sie sollen.

Works like a charm, they should provide atleast 8 remotes.

Games night haven’t been the same since. When my partner said he was purchasing this all I could ask was “why?” However it’s great! Took a while to figure the settings (I left him to it) but over all great machine, love the 4 mini buttons each player can have to retrieve cards. It’s compact and upon figuring the settings easy to use. My partner thinks it’s good value for money, I thought slightly over priced but hey

Nous sommes des fans absolue de jeux de cartes, rami, uno, black-jack, ect, super produit un peu compliqué vu que c’est en anglais mais après quelques minutes on comprend assez vite le fonctionnement c’est un coût à l’achat mais super pour la suite.

On fait beaucoup de jeux de cartes dans ma famille et j'hésitais depuis longtemps. J'ai vu les supers avis de celle-ci et quelqu'un me l'avait conseillé. Reçue ce jour. La notice (en anglais) paraît compliquée mais je me suis lancée sur la machine et elle est facile à prendre en main. Finalement, la description laissait penser que le jeu 5 rois était pré-programmé mais non. Pas grave, ça va très vite de régler une carte de plus à chaque tour. Il faut que les cartes ne soient pas abimées sinon, elle prend plusieurs cartes d'un coup mais ça me paraît logique. Il y a plein de réglages qui permettent de faire plein de jeux (distribuer les cartes 2 par 2 par exemple). Et les télécommandes sont top pour les pénalités du Uno ou lacpioche du Rami... Je mets une vidéo de mes 1ers tests.