Placing multiple pages in a grid

I have an Indesign document with 50 pages, each containing one playing-card sized frame. I want to make another document that has these laid out in a 3x3 grid, so that the cards can be printed out on 6 sheets of normal paper.
Does anyone know the best way to do this?
If I had 50 images, I know how to do it by loading them in the placement cursor and then using CTRL+SHIFT and dragging, but this technique doesn't seem to work when I am placing another Indesign document - the cursor doesn't change to a grid like it does for images.
Thanks in advance!

Thanks for your replies
I did the thumbnail approach and the results were bad, so I tried exporting the PDF instead.
When I import the PDF using "show import options" and choose to load all the pages, it does load all the items into the place gun, but the multiplace cursor doesn't come up when I press CTRL+SHIFT. Instead of the cursor turning into a grid like I would expect, it just becomes a plain black cursor.
I can click to place them individually this way, but there are too many of them for this to be feasible. Any idea what would be happening?

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