This picker chooses who is it for tag or hide and seek. Enter the player list and how many should be it, and the page splits the group into the it players and the runners. Type who was it last round and keep the skip setting on, and those players are left out of the draw, which keeps the same person from being it over and over. The last result line gives you the value to paste in next round.
The pool of players, minus anyone skipped from last round, is shuffled with a reverse Fisher-Yates pass and taken from the front, so the chance for one player in the pool is the it count divided by the pool size. There is no published standard for how many players should be it or how many rounds someone should sit out, and none was confirmed in an authoritative source. Current as of October 2026.
This page does not handle winner and blank lot draws, splitting the group into teams, or keeping score. A name in the last round box that is not on the player list is ignored and counted on its own line. Browser randomness is not a cryptographically secure source, so do not use it for legally binding draws or for any draw where money is at stake. One player coming up often is not proof of a skewed draw.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Type last round it players into the box, comma separated, and keep the skip setting on so they drop out of the pool.
Yes, set the count to 2 or more. If the count reaches the number of players, nobody is left to run and the page shows a message instead.
The last result line gives the names to paste into the last round box, already comma separated.