Raffle Picker

Draws without replacement

Paste one entry per line, pick how many winners you need, and it draws that many at random — each entry can only win once per draw, same as pulling names from a hat rather than a raffle where the same ticket could get picked twice.

Works for giveaways, prize draws, or picking volunteers from a list without doing it by hand in front of everyone.

Running a giveaway fairly

If you're running a public giveaway (a social media contest, a community raffle), it's worth deduplicating your entry list before drawing — the same person entering multiple times under slightly different names or handles is the most common way giveaway draws end up disputed. Screen-recording the draw or noting the timestamp is a simple way to keep the process visibly fair if winners will be publicly announced.

Weighting entries without rigging the draw

Some raffles legitimately give certain entries better odds — someone who bought three tickets should have three times the chance of someone who bought one. The honest way to do that here is to list that person's name multiple times, once per ticket, rather than trying to weight the draw itself; the underlying draw always treats every line as one equally-weighted entry; repeating a name is what turns "three tickets" into three real chances rather than one.

Multiple winners, no repeats

When drawing more than one winner, this tool draws without replacement — meaning once an entry has won, it's removed from the pool for every subsequent winner drawn in that same batch, so nobody can be selected as both first and second prize in a single draw. That matches how a physical raffle drum works (a drawn ticket doesn't go back in) and avoids the awkward edge case of an early large drawing method accidentally letting the same name win twice.