Draw a winner in seconds, and prove it was fair
Type your entries, spin the wheel, get a name. Then use our guides to run the whole giveaway properly — the rules to publish, the records to keep, and how to answer the person who insists it was rigged.
Name picker wheel
One entry per line. Add*3 after a name to give it three slices.
Winners this session
Nothing drawn yet.
How a draw here works
1. Paste your entries
Names, usernames, prize slots, chores — anything, one per line. Up to 500 lines. Paste straight from a spreadsheet column and it just works.
2. The result is drawn first
The winner comes out of the browser's cryptographic random generator before the animation starts. The spin is how you see the result, not how it is decided.
3. Nothing leaves your device
Entries stay in your browser. There is no account, no upload and no server-side list, so there is nothing for us to lose or leak.
Random pickers and generators
8 toolsEvery tool runs entirely in your browser and uses the same cryptographic random source as the wheel above.
Name picker wheel
The full-page version of the wheel, with weighted entries and winner removal for multi-prize draws.
🔀List randomizer
Shuffle a whole list into a random order at once — useful when you need a ranked waitlist, not a single winner.
👥Team generator
Split a roster into random teams by team count or team size, with leftovers distributed evenly.
🔢Random number generator
Draw numbers from any range, with or without repeats. Handy when entries are numbered tickets.
🪙Coin flip
A single fair call with a running tally, so you can watch heads and tails even out over many flips.
🎲Dice roller
Roll any number of dice with any number of sides, and see the total plus each individual result.
🎁Secret Santa generator
Pair a group for a gift exchange so nobody draws their own name, with optional exclusions for couples.
🏆Bracket shuffler
Seed a single-elimination bracket at random and get a clean, printable list of first-round matchups.
Guides
12 articlesA picker gives you a name in two seconds. The rest — the rules, the receipts, the awkward questions afterwards — is what these are for.
Getting started
How to run a fair giveaway
The eight steps that separate a giveaway people trust from one that turns into an argument in your comments.
📜Giveaway rules template
A plain-English rules block you can adapt, covering eligibility, dates, prize, winner selection and notification.
Creators and social
Picking an Instagram winner
How to collect comment entries, handle duplicates and bots, and draw a winner you can defend publicly.
▶️YouTube comment giveaways
Entry mechanics that survive YouTube's moderation quirks, plus what to say on camera when you draw.
📺Twitch viewer raffles
Running a live raffle on stream: capturing entries from chat, showing the draw on screen, avoiding chaos.
🎁Prize ideas and budgets
What different prize tiers realistically cost and which ones actually drive entries. Figures are estimates.
Classroom and work
Name pickers in the classroom
Twelve ways teachers use a random picker for cold calls, groups and jobs — and when not to use one.
👥Randomizing standup order
Why the same person always speaks first, and how a thirty-second shuffle changes who talks in a meeting.
Fairness and rules
Raffle vs sweepstakes vs contest
Three words people use interchangeably that mean different things. General information, not legal advice.
🎲How random is random?
What a random number generator actually does, why the same name can come up twice, and what modulo bias is.
⚖️Weighted draws explained
When giving some entries extra slices is reasonable, when it is not, and how to disclose it up front.
🔍Proving your draw was fair
The records to keep before you spin, so a challenge months later is boring instead of stressful.
Why we care so much about the random part
Most picker tools treat randomness as a decoration. The wheel spins, a name appears, and you are expected to take it on faith. That works fine until a prize is worth real money and someone in your audience decides the draw was staged — at which point “the website picked it” is not much of an answer.
So we made two decisions and wrote them down publicly. First, every result on this site comes from crypto.getRandomValues(), the random number generator built into your browser, which draws on genuine system entropy rather than a predictable formula. Second, when we convert that raw randomness into a position on a list, we throw away values that would skew the result instead of taking a shortcut that quietly favours the first few entries. That second point sounds pedantic and is the one almost everybody gets wrong; we explain the trap in how random is random.
What we deliberately do not do is claim more than we can back up. A browser tool cannot prove to a stranger that it did not cheat — only that it had no reason to, and that its method is written down and checkable. Real credibility comes from what you do around the draw: publishing rules before entries open, freezing the entry list, and recording the moment you pick. That is the point of proving your draw was fair, and it matters more than any wheel.
Who this site is for
Creators running comment giveaways, teachers who need to call on students without falling into a pattern, managers rotating who speaks first, event organisers drawing raffle tickets, tabletop groups without dice, and families arguing about who does the dishes. The tools are identical for all of them — a fair draw does not care what is at stake. The guides are where the difference shows up, because a classroom cold call and a giveaway with a prize have very different things to get right.
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