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Talked through after their own game night.

Loaded, tapped, stacked, and passed around the table on camera.

YouTube · September 22, 2026

Coverage

What they wrote.

Article

Boing Boing

“The Lotus is a card-shuffling robot. It bridges the gap between super-cheap card shufflers that don't really work and casino-grade ones that cost thousands of dollars. This one is under $100, and it looks great.”

Mark Frauenfelder · Boing Boing, and its Substack edition · September 23, 2026

Review

Casual Game Revolution

“The Lotus V2 is an elegant and extremely useful accessory for anyone who plays card games often. It is bound to impress your friends and turn the tedious task of shuffling stacks of standard-sized cards into a breeze.”

Chris James, Editor-in-Chief · quoted with permission · September 23, 2026

Video

The Boardgame Mechanics

Loaded, tapped, stacked, and passed around the table on camera.

YouTube · September 22, 2026

Bench test

The Tabletop Family

“It's the most beautiful shuffler on this list and it's not close.” Best overall, 24 of 25, across the 8 distinct models they bench-tested from 13 shufflers. Lotus supplied the review units; the field, the method and the scores were theirs.

Best card shufflers · 2026

Forum

Poker Chip Forum

Home game hosts comparing machines they bought themselves. One host's friend with the use of one arm now shuffles for himself.

Thread · 2026

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From the founder

We built it because nobody else would.

At the bottom of the market: $20 plastic shufflers that jam, break, and sound terrible. At the top: casino machines that cost $5,000 or more. In between? Nothing — so we built the Lotus.

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The bench

Thirteen shufflers on one table.

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The Tabletop Family · Best overall

Best overall, 24 of 25.

“It's the most beautiful shuffler on this list and it's not close.” The one point lost was speed. Their words: the soft wheels are gentler on cards. Lotus supplied the V1 and early V2 review units; the field, the method and the scores were theirs.

Lotus sent the bench a V1 and an early V2 to test, and their write-up says so. The rest of the field, the method and the scores were theirs.