function love.load() deck = {} for suitIndex, suit in ipairs({'club', 'diamond', 'heart', 'spade'}) do for rank = 1, 13 do table.insert(deck, {suit = suit, rank = rank}) end end playerHand = {} table.insert(playerHand, table.remove(deck, love.math.random(#deck))) table.insert(playerHand, table.remove(deck, love.math.random(#deck))) end function love.draw() local output = {} table.insert(output, 'Player hand:') for cardIndex, card in ipairs(playerHand) do table.insert(output, 'suit: '..card.suit..', rank: '..card.rank) end love.graphics.print(table.concat(output, '\n'), 15, 15) end