Choose for me

What it's for

Where shall we eat, which film shall we watch, who starts, which of the two jobs do I do first: some decisions have no right answer, and the time spent on them is wasted twice over, because meanwhile neither of the two things is getting done. Here you write the options, one per line, and chance makes the choice. There's no ready-made list: you put in the alternatives, so it works for any decision.

The choice really is random

Every line has the same chance of coming up, and every draw is independent of the last: if an entry has come up twice in a row it isn't «less likely» on the third go. That's how chance works, not the tool, and it's the same reason a coin that has come up heads three times still has exactly one chance in two of doing it a fourth.

If you want one option to weigh more than the others, the way is simple: write it twice. With «pizza, pizza, sushi» the pizza comes up two times out of three.

The real trick: watch how you feel when it comes up

This is why leaving it to chance works even when the decision matters. The moment the result appears, the reaction is immediate and honest: if you're disappointed, you already had the answer and it wasn't that one; if you're relieved, it was. Chance doesn't decide for you, it makes you find out what you wanted, and that's a more interesting use than the literal one.

Nearby tools

To draw numbers rather than words there is Random number generator; for a decision between just two possibilities Heads or tails, and for a die Roll the dice. If the options are teams or players to split into groups, the page is Group stage generator.