What people use it for
- Games with rounds One letter per round from a deck that never hands out the same letter twice in the same evening.
- Classroom Call a letter, then call the next, and the ones already used stay out of the pool.
- Sets and initials Two or three letters for group names, table numbers or drill cards, with no pair landing on the same letter.
A letter that is not handed out twice
Most letter pickers give you a letter and forget it, so the next press can hand you the same one. This page keeps a deck for as long as the tab is open: every draw takes the letter out, the alphabet under the result shows what is left, and the deck only refills when it runs out, which it says on the line.
That is the whole difference. A classroom calling a letter for each round, a quiz night working through rounds, a game of Scattergories where the letter has to be new every time: the deck does the bookkeeping and nobody has to remember which letters are gone.
Where the letters come from
The draws come from the browser’s own cryptographic random source, so every letter still in the deck has the same chance. Nothing is weighted towards the easy letters and nothing is sent to a server, which is why the page keeps working with the wifi off once it has loaded.
The skip box takes letters out before the deck is built. Type Q X Z for a spelling round with children, the five vowels for a consonant-only drill, or the letters already used on the board from an earlier lesson.
One letter or a whole set
Pick how many you need and the page deals them in one press, in order, so the list can be read out or copied. The rounds line numbers each one, which is what a host needs when the letters have to match the running order.
| Setting | What comes back |
|---|---|
| One, no repeats | A single letter, and the deck one shorter |
| Five, no repeats | Five different letters, numbered by round |
| Ten, repeats allowed | Ten draws from the full pool, repeats possible |
| All 26, no repeats | The whole alphabet in a random order |
What it does not do
It does not remember the deck after the tab is closed or the page is reloaded, and it does not share a deck between two people on different phones. For a live draw in one room, the tab is the deck.