Take a deck of n unique cards. Deal the entire deck out to k players in the usual way: the top card to player 1, the next to player 2, the kth to player k, the k+1st to player 1, and so on. Then pick up the cards – place player 1′s cards on top, then player 2, and so on, so that player k’s cards are on the bottom. Each player’s cards are in reverse order – the last card that they were dealt is on the top, and the first on the bottom.
How many times, including the first, must this process be repeated before the deck is back in its original order?