Random list picker — draw lots online
Paste a list and draw random winners. Pick one, pick several, or shuffle the whole list. Cryptographically random, no account.
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Paste a list and press Draw. Every pick uses the browser’s cryptographic random number generator, and nothing is uploaded.
How to use the random list picker
The plain-text version of the spinning wheel: paste a list, choose how many to draw, and get the result without the animation. Good for raffles with a hundred entries, picking today’s reviewer, or drawing lots to settle who goes first.
Paste your list
One entry per line. Blank lines are ignored; duplicates are kept, so an entry listed twice has twice the chance.
Draw
Choose how many to draw. Winners are drawn without replacement, so nobody is picked twice in a single draw.
Keep going or copy
Remove the winners and draw again for the next prize, or copy the result — including a shuffle of the whole list when you need an order rather than a winner.
About this tool
Drawing lots is one of the oldest ways to make a decision nobody can argue with — the point was never randomness for its own sake, it was removing the person who chose. A digital draw keeps that property as long as the list is agreed before the draw, not after.
For groups rather than winners, use the team generator. For a draw the whole room should watch happen, use the name picker wheel.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the draw actually random?
- Yes. Every pick comes from crypto.getRandomValues, the browser’s cryptographic random number generator, with the modulo bias removed. It is not Math.random with a shuffle on top.
- Can someone verify the draw?
- Not cryptographically, and no browser tool can offer that. For a prize draw that has to be provable, publish the entry list first and draw in front of witnesses — or use a service that commits to a seed in advance.
- What is the difference from the wheel?
- Only the presentation. The wheel is for a room watching a screen; this page is for a long list and a fast answer, and it can draw several winners at once.
- Do you keep my list?
- No. It stays in the page. Closing the tab discards it.