Packing box for shuffled playing cards

A method of housing shuffled playing cards in a card housing portion of a shooter used in playing games, shuffled playing cards being housed in a packing box and in sealed state, wherein the shuffled playing cards comprise a predetermined number of decks of playing cards are housed in a packing box and encased therein in a shuffled state, the packing box has a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with six faces that are front and rear faces, right and left side faces, and top and bottom faces, and includes zippers or cutoff units in two locations at a predetermined interval, the zippers or the cutoff units including cut lines in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped, a central band in a portion defined by the zippers or the cutoff units provided in the two locations, wherein the right and left side faces of the packing box can be removed by removing the zippers or the cutoff units along the cut lines such that side faces of the playing cards are exposed, the method including:

• a first side face exposure step of removing one of the zippers or the cutoff units of the packing box wherein the shuffled playing cards are housed and thereby exposing one side face of the shuffled playing cards within the packing box by detaching right or left side of the packing box;
• a second side face exposure step of removing the other of the zippers or the cutoff units of the packing box and exposing the both side faces of the shuffled playing cards within the packing box by detaching the other side of the packing box thereby achieving a state in which the shuffled playing cards are wrapped only with the central band;
• a lifting step of holding the central band to lift together the shuffled playing cards and the central band;
• a housing step of housing the shuffled playing cards and the central band in the card housing portion of the card shooter;
• a housing completion step of tearing a part of the central band to remove the central band from the card housing portion thereby leaving only the shuffled playing cards in the card housing portion.