Random order generator

How to use

1. 1.Paste the list, one item per line.
2. 2.Press the button. Every line comes back, in a new order.
3. 3.Press again for a different order of the same list.

Shuffling, not picking

A picker takes some items and leaves the rest. A shuffle keeps all of them and changes only the sequence. That is what you want for a running order, a presentation schedule, a turn order or a playlist, where the question is not who is in but who is first.

A proper shuffle

The rearrangement is a Fisher-Yates pass: walk the list from the end and swap each item with one chosen uniformly from the part not yet fixed. Every possible ordering comes out equally likely, which sounds obvious but is exactly what the naive approach of sorting by a random number per item gets subtly wrong. The random choices come from the browser's cryptographic generator with the modulo bias removed.

Using it for turn order

A shuffled order settles who goes first without anyone choosing, and because every item is kept nobody can be skipped by accident. If the order should change each round, shuffle again rather than reversing it: reversing puts the same person last, and last is usually the position being argued over.