How do you make a random decision?
Paste the options — two for a Coin Flip, three to thirty for a Race — and let the match choose. The outcome is seeded into a share link before anything plays, so the decision arrives with no author and nobody in the group has to be the one who made it.
Most decisions that get handed to a randomizer are not hard. They are small, and everyone is slightly tired of them, and whoever decides gets blamed for it. A coin removes the blame more than it removes the difficulty.
The catch with a private coin is that the person who flipped it is the only witness. Here the outcome is fixed into a share link before the toss plays, so the group chat can watch the same flip and nobody has to take anyone's word for it.
Pick the shape of the decision
- Two options. A Coin Flip, with the two sides labelled with the real choices rather than heads and tails.
- Three or more. A Race. The winner is the decision, and the order behind it is your fallback list for when the winning restaurant is closed.
- Something nobody wants. A Rumble. First one eliminated takes the job.
Deciding as a group
Send the link before anyone has seen the result. Everyone opens it, everyone watches the same match resolve, and the decision arrives with no author. That is most of what people want from a decision maker — not randomness, but someone else to blame.
Tilting it on purpose
A truly uniform draw is not always what you want. If one option deserves a better shot, Weighted odds hands it more lottery balls and shows the counts in the standings, so the group can see the thumb on the scale and agree to it.
Using it as a gut check
Run it and watch your own reaction. If the result makes you want to run it again, you already had a preference — and finding that out is worth more than the draw itself.
When something else is the better tool
- A decision that actually matters. Use it to break a tie between options you would genuinely accept, not to outsource a judgement call.
- A decision only you are making. A coin in your pocket is faster; the share link exists for groups.
How it works
Paste the options
Restaurants, films, names, jobs, anything.
Pick a game
Coin Flip for two, Race for more, Rumble to lose.
Share the link
Everyone lands on the same answer.
Questions
What is a random decision maker?
A tool that makes a choice for you at random so nobody in the group has to own it. This one plays the choice out as a match and hands you a link that replays it identically.
Can I use it for more than two choices?
Yes, up to 12. Coin Flip is the two-choice version; a Race handles the rest and ranks the losers too.
Can someone re-roll until they get the answer they want?
Not invisibly. The result is seeded from the link, so it is fixed the moment the link exists, and a second attempt is a visibly different link.
Is it free?
Yes, with no sign-up.