How the Prize Draw Picker Works
Paste your entry list, set how many winners you need, and the picker draws them in order from first place down. Line breaks and commas both work as separators and blank lines are dropped, so a list copied out of a spreadsheet or a comment thread works as is. Add a prize list and each winner is labelled with the matching prize, ready to read straight off the screen.
You decide what happens to duplicate names. The default keeps them, so someone who entered twice really does get two chances, while the merge option collapses them to one entry per person and reports how many duplicates were removed. Nothing is merged silently, so your entry count never drops without an explanation. Up to 500 entries are used.
How the draw works
The entry list is shuffled once with the Fisher-Yates algorithm and the first slice becomes the winners, so the same entry can never be drawn twice and the draw order becomes the placing. The chance shown per entry is the number of winners divided by the number of entries, rounded to one decimal place. Weighted draws that give some entries better odds are not supported.
Where it fits
- Announcing giveaway winners on a blog or newsletter
- Raffles at company events and workshops
- Club or classroom prize handouts
Frequently Asked Questions
By default they are kept as separate entries. Choose the merge option to collapse them to one entry per person, and the number of merged duplicates is shown with the result.
No. Winners are taken from the front of a shuffled list, so the same entry is never drawn twice. If you kept duplicates, the same name can still appear on two separate lines.
Prizes are assigned from first place down, and the remaining winners are marked as having no prize assigned, with the count shown in the summary.