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Pick For Me — Decision Maker

Free decision maker: list your options, weight the ones you prefer with :3-style suffixes, and let a seeded random draw pick for you. Runs in your browser.

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List your options, then press Pick for me.

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How pick for me — decision maker works

Type your options one per line. A line can carry an optional weight suffix — write Pizza :3 and Pizza becomes three times as likely as an unweighted option, which is the polite way to encode 'I secretly want pizza'. The suffix reads the number after a colon or equals sign, whole numbers 1-999; duplicate lines also stack weight, so listing an option twice doubles its chance.

The pick is a cumulative-weight roulette over the site's seeded pseudorandom number generator: each option owns a slice of the total weight proportional to its number, one random roll lands somewhere in that range, and the option whose slice contains the roll wins. For multiple picks the winner's entries leave the pool and the remaining weights renormalize, so picking 2 from A :1 / B :1 gives each a 50% chance at every slot — exactly the fair no-repeat behavior.

Choose how many picks you need (1-10) and whether the same option may be picked twice. The result shows each pick with its weight, in draw order. An optional seed reproduces the same picks later — useful when you need to show that the pick was fixed before anyone complained. For a plain equal-chance shuffle without weights, the randomizer does the job; here the point is the weighting.

Frequently asked questions

How do weights work?
An option with weight 3 is drawn three times as often as an option with weight 1. Weights are relative, not percentages: A :2 and B :1 means A gets a 2/3 chance and B gets 1/3. Any positive whole number up to 999 works, and the suffix goes after the name, separated by a colon or equals sign.
Why wasn't my heaviest option picked?
Weights change probabilities, not guarantees. An option with weight 9 against three weight-1 rivals wins about 69% of draws — and loses about 31% of the time. If that feels wrong, you did not want randomness: delete the options you would be disappointed to lose, then run the draw.
Can I pick several options without repeats?
Yes — set how many picks you want (1-10). By default a picked option is removed from the pool before the next roll, so no name is drawn twice. Tick allow-duplicates for draws where the same option legitimately can win again, such as assigning people to sessions with capacity for repeats.
What does the seed do?
The seed makes the draw reproducible: the same options, weights, count, and seed always produce the same picks. Leave it blank for a fresh decision every time, or set it when the pick needs to be provably fixed in advance — team drafts, giveaway orders, or deciding chores for the week.
How is this different from the Randomizer?
The Randomizer treats every item identically — flat shuffle or equal-chance pick. This tool adds weighting, multi-pick with renormalization, and a decision-first presentation, so 'pick for me' answers the actual question: which one should I choose, given I care about some options more.