Twelve ridiculous ways to pick a winner
Can't decide? Let the roo pick. Type your names once, then spin a wheel, race a field of pigs, drop a plinko ball or pop balloons until one is left â same list, completely different show. Free, no sign-up, and nothing ever leaves your browser.
Pick your poison
Every game reads the same list of names.
Spin the Wheel
The classic. Weighted slices, a satisfying tick, one lucky name.
ClassicThe Big Race
Horses, pigs, ducks, rockets or snails â with daft jockeys and live commentary.
RacePlinko Drop
Real peg physics. Watch it bounce, hold your breath.
PhysicsLadder Draw
Follow the scrambling path down. Assigns everyone at once, not just a winner.
MappingName Slots
Three reels, one payline, one very dramatic pause.
RevealHigh Card Draw
One card each off a shuffled deck. Highest takes it, ties go to war.
ClassicDice Derby
Everyone rolls, bars climb, first to the target takes it.
RaceGrabber
The claw hovers, drops, fumbles, and finally picks someone.
ArcadeBattle Royale
A knockout bracket that plays itself, round by round.
BracketTight Lines
Cast, wait for the bite, strike. The pause is the point.
ArcadeMystery Boxes
Shuffle the boxes, pick one, find out what you did.
RevealBalloon Pop
Elimination, one bang at a time. Last balloon floating wins.
KnockoutHow it works
About forty seconds, start to finish.
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Add your names
Type them, or paste a whole list at once. Give each one a character and a colour if you like â they carry through to every game as jockeys, balloons and reels.
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Pick a game
Wheel for speed, a race when you want ninety seconds of shouting, a bracket when there are a lot of names to get through.
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Play it again
Switch games without retyping anything â your list follows you. Remove the winner and go again to draw a whole running order.
What people use it for
Mostly: avoiding a decision.
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đĢ Classrooms
Cold-calling without the awkwardness, picking reading order, choosing team captains. Full view mode strips the page back for the projector.
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đŧ Standups and socials
Who demos first, who gets the last biscuit, who is organising the Christmas do. The bracket handles a whole department.
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đ Raffles and fundraisers
Paste your entrant list, run the duck derby on the big screen, and share the link so everyone can see their own duck before it starts.
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đ Family stand-offs
What's for dinner, whose turn on the console, who walks the dog. Balloon pop is the one that gets passed round the table.
Questions
Is it actually random?
Yes, and not by accident. Every draw uses crypto.getRandomValues â your
browser's cryptographic random number generator â rather than the ordinary
Math.random, which is allowed to be a low-quality generator that repeats.
Whole numbers are drawn with rejection sampling so there is no rounding bias either.
The full explanation is on the about page.
Do I need an account?
No. There is nothing to sign up for. Your list is stored in your own browser and is never sent anywhere.
Can I make one name more likely than another?
Yes â every name has a number next to it. Set it to 3 and that name gets three times the chance. Each game honours it in a way that suits the game: a bigger slice on the wheel, more bins in plinko, extra dice in the derby, and in balloon pop it works in reverse and makes you harder to pop.
Can I share my list with someone else?
Press đ Share in the names panel. The link contains the whole list, so whoever opens it gets your exact setup â handy for a raffle where everyone wants to see their own entry first.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes, all twelve. The wheel and the races are built for a phone screen first, and balloon pop is designed to be passed round a table.
Is this gambling?
No. There is nothing to stake, nothing to win and no money involved anywhere. It is a name picker with better animation.