How do you pick a giveaway winner fairly?
Paste the entrants and draw the winner as a Race your audience can watch. Everyone opening the same seeded link sees the same result. This proves replay consistency, not that the organizer made only one draw.
Every giveaway has the same credibility problem. You draw a winner privately, post a name, and a chunk of your audience quietly assumes it went to a friend. A screenshot of a name in a box proves nothing, because a screenshot can be taken on the fourth attempt.
A shareable draw fixes it. The result is fixed into the link when the link is created, so posting the link is posting the draw itself. Anyone can open it and watch the same entrants compete to the same result.
Running a draw people believe
- Post the link, not the name. Let people watch it themselves. It takes fifteen seconds and it ends the accusations.
- Use it live. The draw is genuinely watchable, which makes it good content on a stream or a story rather than dead air.
- Weight it if the rules say so. If extra entries were earned, give those entrants more lottery balls — agree on the counts with entrants before the draw.
- Draw runners-up in the same run. The full ranked order comes out of one draw, so second and third place are already decided if your winner does not claim.
Entrant lists
Up to 18 entrants per draw. Paste them from a comment export, a spreadsheet column, or a signup sheet — extra columns get ignored and duplicate names are dropped automatically.
For a giveaway larger than 18, shortlist first: draw a batch, or filter to qualified entries, then run the final draw here where people can see it.
How it works
Paste the entrants
From a comment export or a spreadsheet column.
Run the draw
A race or a battle royale, whichever suits your channel.
Post the link
Everyone can replay the same result.
Put it on your own site
Teachers put it on a class page, leagues on their league site, streamers on a giveaway page. Paste this code where you want the picker; your visitors use it free, with no sign-up.
Questions
How do I prove the giveaway was not rigged?
Share the link instead of the result. Everyone can replay the same result. The link alone cannot establish whether someone ran earlier draws or chose which result to share.
Can I give some entrants more entries?
Yes. Weighted odds lets you give any entrant more lottery balls, and agree on those counts before the draw.
How many entrants can I draw from?
Up to 18 in one draw.
Does it pick runners-up too?
Yes. Every draw produces a full ranked order, so second and third place come out of the same run.