diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..21c5138
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Simon and I built this to test the claim from the book "How Many Socks Make a Pair?" that shuffling a deck of cards "perfectly eight times winds up putting them in the original order."