A wheel of names gives every entry an equal slice, so with 4 names each has a 1 in 4, or 25%, chance of being picked. Paste one name per line, choose how many to draw, and the picker returns the winner plus any further names in draw order, each removed before the next draw.
Teachers choosing who answers next, streamers running a giveaway and teams picking who hosts the stand-up all need a draw nobody can argue with. Paste the names one per line or open a text file, set how many names to draw, and the picker returns the winner, the odds each name had and the full draw order in a table. Repeated names can be stripped so nobody gets a double slice, or kept on purpose when someone earned extra entries. The draw is a uniform random choice made in your browser; there is no animated spinning wheel, and the result is not suited to regulated lotteries that need an audited draw.
Type or paste one name per line, or open a .txt or .csv file. Blank lines are skipped.
Use the − and + buttons to draw between 1 and 50 names; each drawn name leaves the pool.
Keep the checkbox ticked to merge repeated names, or untick it so a name listed twice gets two slices.
The winner shows at the top and the table lists every pick with the odds it had at that moment.
Result Winner: Carlos
Names on the wheel: 4
Chance per name: 25%
Names not drawn: 3
Each of the four names holds a quarter of the wheel, so each has a 25% chance.
Result Winner: Eve
Names on the wheel: 6
Chance per name: 16.67%
Names not drawn: 3
Each drawn name leaves the wheel, so the odds rise from 1 in 6 to 1 in 4 by the third draw.
P(name) = 1 ÷ n on the first draw; 1 ÷ (n − k) on draw k + 1
nkEvery entry is equally likely, as on a wheel with equal slices. The picker draws an index uniformly from the browser's random source, records the name, removes it and draws again from the smaller list. That is sampling without replacement, so the same person cannot win twice in one run. A name listed twice with repeats kept simply occupies two entries and doubles its chance.
Yes. Each entry is one equal share of the pool, so with 20 names each has a 5% chance on the first draw. Only a name entered more than once with repeat removal off has a larger share.
Not within one run. After a name is drawn it is removed, and the next draw is made from the names that remain, the way you would pull slips from a hat.
The pool shrinks by one after each pick. With 6 names the first draw is 1 in 6 (16.67%), the second 1 in 5 (20%) and the third 1 in 4 (25%).
Names are compared after trimming spaces and ignoring capital letters, so "Sam" and "sam " count as the same entry. A note says how many repeats were removed.
Up to 1,000 entries, each up to 80 characters. That covers a class register, a staff list or the comments on a typical giveaway post.
The pick uses the browser's random number source and a uniform choice of position, so no entry is favoured by its place in the list. Each new set of inputs produces a new draw.
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