If you've ever heard of probability, which you probably have, then this question should be fun.
If you have a deck of cards and you shuffle them, as much as you want, then what will be the probability that the first card on top will be the king and then the queen to be next and then the jack and then ten and so forth.
What is the probability for the deck to be in this order?
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For the probability to be 1 in 52!, you need to specify that the first 13 cards are all of one particular suit, then the next 13 cards of all of anothe particular suit, etc., so that there is only ONE array of cards that "meets the criteria". Otherwise, the probability is going to be a lot less than 1 in 52! . For instance, suits don't matter at all, even in any block of 13 cards, then the probability is 1 in 52! divided by 4!^13.