Can the same name be drawn twice?

Only with no-repeats switched off. On, the pool is partially shuffled and the picks are taken from the front, so each entry appears at most once and asking for more winners than you have entries quietly gives you all of them. Off, each pick is drawn from the whole list again, which is what you want for dice-style sampling and not what you want for a raffle.

What happens with a very long list?

Past 60 slices the wheel drops its labels, the draw is still exact, so read the result in Draw a list.

How long does a spin take?

About 4.2 seconds, or 0.4 if your system asks for reduced motion.

Random Picker

No upload · runs in your browser

No pick yet

Entries

Unique

Odds each

1 in 8

Picks made

Names are picked on your device with Web Crypto, the list is never uploaded.

How it works

Random Name Picker: Draw Winners or Spin a Wheel

Paste a list of names, then draw winners or spin the wheel. The winner is chosen with your browser’s cryptographic random generator first, and the wheel is animated to land on it.

What this does

Reads up to 5,000 lines and draws as many as 500 winners in one press
No-repeats mode shuffles the pool, so an entry can win at most once per draw
Turn no-repeats off and every draw is independent, a name can come up twice
The wheel can strike the winner off the list after each spin
Recent picks stay listed twelve deep until you clear them

FAQ

The order of operations is what makes it honest. The winner is drawn first from crypto.getRandomValues, with the modulo bias rejected so every entry has the same odds, and only then is a rotation solved that parks that slice under the pointer, nudged off dead centre, but never far enough to leave its own slice. A wheel built the other way round, reporting whatever the animation happens to land on, is far easier to bias and cannot prove which slice was really under the pointer.

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