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Message: [QUOTE="Kai-Uwe Bux, post: 2520873"] Do you really want to reseed by time the RNG every time you deal a card? Usually, this will result in way less random looking behaviour. do you have defined operator<< for the type Hand? a) this for() loop does not make random_int any more random. b) this way of generating random integers in [lowest, highest] does not quite exactly produce a uniform distribution (unless range happens to divide RAND_MAX. c) Are you certain that RAND_MAX+1 will not cause an arithmetic overflow? This approach is expensive. You might consider the following: Before dealing the hands, shuffle the deck: std::random_shuffle( cards_in_deck.begin(), cards_in_deck.end() ); Then, within the card dealing function, just deal the card cards_in_deck.back(); and then get rid of it by cards_in_deck.pop_back(); Best Kai-Uwe Bux [/QUOTE]