How to play
- Enter the players and the results — prizes, chores, teams or anything else — then press "Build the ladder".
- Tap a name at the top. Its path is drawn down the ladder, crossing over at every rung, and the result it lands on is revealed.
- Press "Reveal all results" to see everyone's outcome at once.
Why everyone gets exactly one result
A rung simply swaps the two players on either side of it, so two paths can never end in the same place. That is why every player is matched with exactly one result. The rungs are placed with a cryptographic random generator each time you build a new ladder, so nobody can predict the outcome in advance.
A ladder is not perfectly uniform, though: with a limited number of rungs, a player is a little more likely to land near their starting column than far away. If every outcome must have exactly the same odds — a prize draw, for example — use the Random Name Picker instead.
Ways to use it
- Who buys the coffee, who picks the restaurant
- Splitting a class or office into teams or assigning chores
- A fun reveal at parties, livestreams and team meetings