RandomPick

Paste the list once

Spin the wheel, pick instantly, or split into teams — all from the same list, saved in the link rather than behind a login.

Saved in the address bar — bookmark or share this page and the list comes with it.

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How the picking works. Every choice comes from crypto.getRandomValues, the browser's cryptographic random source, mapped to your list length using rejection sampling so no entry is even slightly favoured by the arithmetic. It is cryptographic-quality pseudorandomness — not "true" randomness harvested from physical noise, which is a different and stronger claim we are not making. Nothing about your list is sent anywhere, and nothing is weighted unless you say so.

One list, four tools

The irritation with most random pickers is not the randomness, it is the retyping. You paste thirty names to spin a wheel, then want to split the same thirty into groups, and the team splitter is a different page with an empty box. So this site keeps one list: paste it here and it is already there on the team splitter and the instant picker.

The list lives in the page address rather than in an account. That means bookmarking this page saves your class or your standup group, and pasting the link into a chat shares it with everyone — no sign-in, no saved-wheels library to manage, nothing on a server that could leak.

The wheel is a presentation, not a lottery

Worth being clear about the mechanism, because it comes up: the winner is drawn first from the browser's cryptographic random source, and then the wheel spins to land on it. It is not a simulation of a physical wheel whose result emerges from the animation. This is how essentially every wheel on the web works, and it is the honest way round — a physics simulation would be the thing that could be subtly biased.

When not to use the wheel

Above about forty entries the labels are too narrow to read and the spin is pageantry over a list you cannot see. Use the instant pick instead. And for anything that matters legally — a prize draw with real value, anything auditable — use a service that provides a certificate and an audit trail. This is a classroom and standup tool, and it does not pretend to be a notary.

The rest

Team splitterSame list, into groups of N or N groupsRandom numbersA range, a count, with or without repeatsDice roller2d6, 1d20, 3d8+2 — proper notationCoin flipOne tap, with a running tally

Questions

Is the wheel actually random, or is it rigged?
It is random, and this question deserves a real answer because children ask it constantly. The winner is chosen first, using the browser's cryptographic random number generator, and then the wheel is rotated so that the chosen wedge lands under the pointer. The animation is a presentation of a decision already made fairly — it is not a physics simulation whose outcome could be nudged. Nothing weights any entry unless you turn on an option that says it does.
Do I need an account to save my list?
No, and that is the main practical difference from the popular alternatives. Your list is encoded into the page address, so bookmarking this page saves the list, and sending the link to a colleague sends the list with it. There is nothing to sign into and nothing stored on a server.
Can it remove the winner automatically?
Yes — tick 'remove winner after each spin'. That is the setting you want for drawing an order rather than picking one name: spin repeatedly and you get a full random sequence with no repeats.
Does the same list work on the other tools?
Yes, and that is the point of the design. Paste it once and it is there on the team splitter and the instant picker too, because they read the same stored list. Most sites make you retype it for each tool.
How many names can it take?
The wheel stays readable to around forty entries, after which the labels get too narrow to read and the instant-pick button is the better tool. There is no hard limit on the list itself.