Random picker

How it works

Picking a name out of a list decides giveaways, raffles, who goes first and who does the washing up. If anything of value depends on it, the draw should be one nobody can predict or reproduce — including whoever runs it.

A fair draw

Picks come from the browser's cryptographic random source, and the range mapping discards values that would make some entries very slightly more likely than others. Every item has an equal chance, and a previous draw tells you nothing about the next.

One at a time or several

Pick a single winner, or several at once. With repeats off, each entry can be drawn only once — which is what a raffle with distinct prizes needs. With repeats on, the same entry can come up again.

Preparing the list

One entry per line. Blank lines are ignored and surrounding spaces are trimmed, so a list pasted out of a spreadsheet works without cleaning it up first. Duplicate entries count twice, which is how weighted entries are usually done.

Nothing is recorded

The list and the result exist only in your browser. Nobody else can see the entrants or the outcome, and the draw cannot be reproduced afterwards — so take a screenshot if you need to show it was done.