Random Choice Generator

How the random choice generator picks an option

Each non-empty line in the box is one option. Press the button and one line is drawn, each with the same chance: with four options, 1 in 4. In statistics this is a discrete uniform distribution.

If you tick Remove choice after picking, the chosen line is deleted from the box, so the next draw is among the options that are left. Reset list brings back the list as it was at the first draw.

To give an option a better chance, write it on more than one line: an option on two of four lines comes up half the time. Each pick is an unbiased draw from the browser's cryptographic random generator, as described in how our randomness works.

Which random picker to use for which choice

This page is the plain version: type, press, done. For a draw that a room or a stream can watch, spin the wheel. For a list of people that needs splitting, use the team generator.

For two options, a coin flip is quicker, and for a single question the yes or no generator answers it. If the choice is where to eat every week, the random restaurant generator keeps your list of places between visits.