Random Picks
Random picks — roulette, dice, coin flip, ladder, lotto numbers and more.
Random Picks Guide
When a group needs to decide something quickly with only a couple of options, coin flip or rock-paper-scissors settles it fast; with several options that should carry different weights, entering them into the spinner wheel works better.
To split participants into teams or draw a few random winners, the random picker & team maker assigns everyone automatically by headcount, while the ladder game shows the whole process visually when assigning outcomes, which tends to leave fewer complaints about the result.
The dice roller can roll anywhere from one to six dice at once and totals them, and the lottery number generator draws numbers following the actual Lotto 6/45 rules — though it obviously can't guarantee a win.
To weight outcomes unevenly across participants, repeating an entry proportionally on the spinner wheel gets closer to the odds you want than a binary tool like a coin flip. The ladder game looks like the outcome is fixed by the lines already drawn, but it's actually unknown until a participant picks a starting spot — which is exactly why it works well for assigning order with fewer complaints. Numbers from the lottery generator are fully random each time, so picking numbers that came up often in past draws doesn't raise your odds for the next one.