Wald on the Reshuffling Deck
A deck holds 60 cards labelled 1 to 60 plus 40 jokers, shuffled uniformly at random. Priyanshu draws one card per second off the top. Drawing a numbered card removes it from the deck and adds to a set . Drawing a joker triggers a check: if he returns every card, reshuffles all 100 (instantly, and is kept), and carries on; if the game ends.
Simulation puts the expected number of rounds, each ending the moment a joker turns up, at 188.195. On average, how many seconds does the game last?
Answer format: enter an integer.
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