A card shuffler with a drivable shuffling storage means (2) which
is provided with compartments (69) for receiving cards (13) and which
is associated with an input apparatus for inserting cards into the compartments
(69) one by one and an output storage means which is spaced from the same
for the shuffled cards, with the drive of the shuffling storage means (2),
the input apparatus and the output storage means being controlled by an electronic
control system. In order to provide a card shuffler of the kind mentioned above
which is capable of continually displaying the number of playing cards situated
in the card shuffler and thus of providing the operator with the opportunity to
have at all times certainty about the complete number of playing cards it is provided
that the input apparatus (106) is provided with a draw-in zone (105)
whose height corresponds substantially to the thickness of a card (13) and
a first detection means (24) and a second detection means is provided which
detects the cards (13) inserted into and removed from the shuffling storage means.
