Free random pickers: wheel, numbers, dice and coins

How to, step by step

• Is a spin the wheel picker really random? How a fair one works

  How an online wheel picks a name, why the spin cannot be rigged by timing, and what makes a draw fair. Spin a fair wheel in your browser, nothing sent.

• How to prove a random draw or giveaway was fair

  Show a fingerprint of a draw before it is made, let anyone add words, and publish a record they can check. How Prove it works, and what it cannot prove.

• Wheel of names: how to pick a random name fairly

  Paste a list of names, spin a wheel and get a fair pick, for classrooms, streams and meetings. How to use a wheel of names in your browser, nothing sent.

• Yes or no wheel: spin for an answer, and when to trust it

  A yes or no wheel gives an even answer when two choices are close. How to use one, how to add maybe, and what a study of coin tosses found about it.

• Decision wheel: let a wheel decide when you can't

  Put your choices on a wheel, weight the ones you like more, and spin. How a decision wheel helps end going back and forth, made in your browser.

• Random name picker with no repeats: an order everyone sees

  Pick names from a list so nobody comes up twice, for turns, presentations and cold calling. How take turns works, with the order kept as you go.

• Random team generator: fair teams, balanced by skill

  Split a group into random teams of even size, or balance them by skill with a snake draft. How the team generator works, in your browser, nothing sent.

• Secret Santa generator with no sign-up: draw names online

  Draw Secret Santa so nobody gets themselves and couples are kept apart, then show each match privately, with no emails or accounts. Free, in your browser.

• How do random number generators work? True vs computer random

  What a computer's random numbers are, why a browser's cryptographic generator is fair for draws and games, and how a range is drawn without bias.

• Dice notation explained: 2d6, 4d6 drop lowest, d20 advantage

  What 2d6+3, 4d6dl1, 2d20kh1 and 3d6! mean, how likely each total is, and how to roll any of them in your browser with the odds drawn.

• Is a coin flip 50/50? What 350,000 real flips found

  Real coins land the way they started slightly more often than half the time. What the research found, and how a fair online coin flip works.

• Random letter generator: games and ideas for a random letter

  Use a random letter for word games, categories rounds, spelling practice and starting letters. How to draw letters fairly, with vowels or no repeats.

• Pick a card: draw random playing cards from a shuffled deck

  Draw cards from a fairly shuffled deck of 52, with jokers if you like, until it runs out. Why a computer shuffle is fairer than a few riffles.

• Do lottery number generators improve your odds? The real chance

  No generator changes the chance of winning a lottery. What the real odds are for common draws, and what picking at random does and does not do.