🔢What order should everyone go in?

✓ Tested & verified Updated: How the randomness works

Going alphabetically means the same person is always first. Random order, drawn once and published, ends the discussion.

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How this works

Everything on the list gets drawn, without replacement, into a full running order. Because the whole order comes from one seed, publishing the seed lets anyone confirm the order was not adjusted afterwards.

How many orders are possible

Why a published order cannot plausibly be a coincidence.

PeoplePossible orders
36
5120
840,320
103,628,800
151,307,674,368,000

With ten people there are over three and a half million possible orders, which is why reproducing one from a published seed is meaningful.

Frequently asked questions

Can I draw fewer than everyone?

Set how many to draw and it stops there, keeping the order of those drawn.

Is this the same as shuffling?

Yes — a draw without replacement is a shuffle. The difference here is that it is verifiable.

How the randomness works

Repeated weighted selection without replacement over the full list, which for equal weights is a uniform random permutation.