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Random Choice Picker

Type in your own list of choices and let this tool pick one or more winners for you. Everything runs in your browser, and your list is never sent to Brekzy.

Random Choice Picker Tool

Pick a Random Choice

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What Is a Random Choice Picker?

A random choice picker takes a list you provide and selects one or more entries from it at random, instead of you having to flip a coin, draw straws, or just pick whatever comes to mind first. It's useful anywhere you have a set of specific options and want the outcome to be genuinely unbiased, rather than influenced by who spoke last or which option happened to sound better in the moment.

How to Use the Random Choice Picker

  1. Type or paste your choices into the text box, one choice per line.
  2. Set "Number of winners" to how many you want picked, from 1 to 20.
  3. Turn on "Allow duplicate selections" if the same choice should be allowed to win more than once.
  4. Leave "Ignore blank lines" checked to silently skip empty lines, or uncheck it if you'd rather be told about them.
  5. Leave "Remove duplicate input choices" checked to count repeated entries only once, or uncheck it to let repeated entries count as separate, independently pickable items.
  6. Click Pick Random.
  7. Click Copy Results if you need to paste the outcome elsewhere.

Common Uses

People reach for a random choice picker for all kinds of everyday decisions: choosing which restaurant to eat at when a group can't agree, settling a decision fairly instead of letting the loudest voice win, picking turn order or teams for a game, drawing a winner for a giveaway or contest, or selecting a student, group, or item at random during a classroom activity.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does the random choice picker work?

Type or paste your list, one choice per line, then click Pick Random. The tool selects one or more entries from that list using your browser's cryptographically secure random number generator, so every eligible choice has an equal chance of being picked.

Can I enter multiple choices?

Yes. Add as many choices as you want, one per line, in the text box. There is no fixed limit, and the tool handles a long list, even a few thousand lines, without slowing down.

Can I pick multiple winners?

Yes. Set "Number of winners" to anywhere from 1 to 20. With duplicates off, every winner in that batch will be a different choice from your list. With duplicates on, you can request more winners than you have choices.

Can choices repeat?

Only if you turn on "Allow duplicate selections." With that option on, each winner is chosen independently, so the same choice can be picked more than once. With it off, winners are always distinct entries from your list, up to the number of choices available.

What happens if my list has blank lines?

A blank line is never treated as a choice of its own. With "Ignore blank lines" checked (the default), blank lines are simply skipped. If you uncheck it, the tool will point out that your list has blank lines and ask you to remove them or turn the option back on, rather than guessing what you meant.

Is the picker random?

Yes. It uses your browser's cryptographically secure random number generator (the Web Crypto API's crypto.getRandomValues()), not the ordinary Math.random() function many simple scripts rely on.

Are my choices stored?

No. Everything you type and every result the tool picks stays in your browser. Nothing is ever sent to Brekzy, logged, or saved once you leave or refresh the page.

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