A random name picker draws names from your list so each one has the same chance. Paste the names one per line, choose how many to pick, and the tool draws them without repeats. With eight names and one pick, every name has a 12.5% chance; picking three from twelve gives each 25%.
Teachers choosing who answers next, streamers running a giveaway and managers assigning a rota all need a draw that nobody can accuse of favouritism. Paste or type the names, one per line, or open a text file of them, and set how many to draw. The picker shuffles the whole list and takes names from the top, so nobody is drawn twice, and it lists the draw order in a table along with the chance each name had. Repeated names can be stripped first so a name typed twice does not get double odds. One limit: the draw happens in your browser, so for a prize draw with legal rules you still need a witness or an audited process.
Type or paste one name per line, or use Open a text file to load a .txt or .csv list.
Use the − and + buttons to draw one winner or a whole order of speakers.
Keep Remove repeated names ticked so a name entered twice counts once; untick it to give extra entries extra chances.
The picked names appear at the top and the table lists them in the order they were drawn.
Result Picked: Carlos
Names in the draw: 8
Names picked: 1
Chance per name: 12.5%
With eight names in the hat each person has a one-in-eight, or 12.5%, chance of being drawn.
Result Picked: A6, A7, A1
Names in the draw: 12
Names picked: 3
Chance per name: 25%
Drawing three of twelve without repeats gives each student a 25% chance, and the table shows the speaking order.
chance per name = names picked ÷ names in the draw
names pickednames in the drawBlank lines are ignored and each line is trimmed. The list is shuffled with a Fisher–Yates shuffle driven by the browser's random source, and the first names of the shuffled list are the result. Because names are taken without replacement, the probability that any single name is drawn equals the number picked divided by the list size.
No. The list is shuffled once and names are taken from the top, so each line can be drawn at most once per draw. Ask for more names than the list holds and every name is returned in a random order.
With Remove repeated names ticked, lines that match ignoring capital letters and surrounding spaces are counted once, and a note says how many were dropped. Untick it to treat each line as its own ticket.
No. Every name has the same chance, equal to the number picked divided by the list size. A list of 500 with one pick gives each name 0.2%.
Yes. Save the column as a .txt or .csv file with one name per row and open it with the file button; the file is read in your browser and not uploaded.
Untick Remove repeated names and put their name on as many lines as tickets they hold. A name on three of ten lines then has three times the chance of a name on one line.
Yes. Each change to the inputs runs a fresh shuffle from the browser's random source, so the same list gives a new order on each draw.
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