Pick to start
Enter player names and instantly choose who goes first.
Runs locally in your browser. Player names stay on this device.
Add players and press "Pick First Player."
Type each player's name on its own line and press "Pick First Player." The list is shuffled with a fair, unbiased random source and the top card flips to reveal the winner. Want to go again? "Pick Again" redraws instantly, and "Remove selected player after picking" takes the winner out of the running so you can work through a rotation over multiple games.
Sometimes you only need to know who starts — that's the default. Turn on "Show full turn order" and the same shuffle reveals everyone's position, so you get the entire play order in one go instead of picking a starter and figuring out the rest yourselves.
Yes. Every name has exactly the same chance of landing in any position, first included — there's no bias toward names typed first or last in your list.
Your list of players is shuffled using your browser's cryptographically secure random number generator, so every player has exactly equal odds of going first.
Yes. The same fair shuffle also determines the full turn order, so there's no bias toward any position, whether you only need the first player or the whole lineup.
"First player" reveals just who starts. Turning on "Show full turn order" reveals everyone's position, in the same fair shuffle, so you know who goes second, third, and so on.
No. Everything runs locally in your browser. Your list is only saved on your own device and is never sent to a server.
Yes, completely free, with no sign-up and no limit on how many times you can pick.