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About this tool
Pick a random playing card with a 3D flip animation.
The Random Card Picker draws one card from a standard 52-card deck — 13 ranks across hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades, no jokers — and reveals it with a flip animation. Each press picks a suit and a rank independently at random, so it is a draw with replacement: the same card can come up twice in a row, exactly like reshuffling the full deck before every pull. Useful when you need an impartial card and there is no deck on the table.
Open Random Card Picker on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Click Pick Card. The card panel opens on a Ready to Pick placeholder, and the button is disabled and reads Picking... while the 3D flip animation plays.
Read the draw in the panel beside the card, which shows No card picked yet until your first pick: a miniature card carrying the rank and the suit pip — red for hearts and diamonds, black for clubs and spades — with the result written out in full beside it, Queen of Spades for instance.
Click Pick Card again for another draw. Cards are never removed, so all 52 stay in play and the same card can come up twice in a row.
All 4 suits and all 13 ranks including Ace, Jack, Queen and King are in play on every draw, with no cards quietly excluded.
Cards are not removed after a pick, so each pull is an even 1-in-52 chance rather than the shifting odds of a depleting deck.
The card shows corner rank and suit plus a large centre pip in the correct red or black, and the result is also written out as text like "Queen of Spades".
52 — four suits (hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades) times 13 ranks (Ace through 10, Jack, Queen, King). Jokers are not included.
Yes. Every press draws from the complete deck again rather than from what is left, so repeats are possible and each card has a 1-in-52 chance on every pull.
Any one suit comes up 1 time in 4 (13 of 52 cards), and a face card — Jack, Queen or King — comes up 3 times in 13, about 23%. Because draws are independent, those odds are the same on the first pull and the fiftieth.
It uses the browser's built-in random number generator to choose a suit and a rank, which is fine for games, teaching and tiebreakers. It is not a cryptographic source, so do not use it where an adversary has something to gain from predicting the card.