Generate a silver foil lottery card and scratch it away with your finger to uncover the winner. Provably fair, free, and genuinely tactile.
The FunRandomPickers Scratch Off turns a random draw into something you do with your hands. Add your list, generate a card, then drag your finger or mouse across the silver foil to rub it away. Underneath is a randomly selected winner, glowing on a lottery ticket you uncovered yourself.
Every other picker asks you to watch. This one asks you to participate, and that difference is the whole point — the result arrives at the pace you choose, in the order you choose, which makes it feel considerably more personal than an animation playing at you. Scratch a corner and stop, or rub the whole thing off in one go.
The winner is chosen by the Web Crypto API the moment the card is generated, so the outcome is fixed and fair before you touch it. Scratching only reveals what is already there. Once about two thirds of the foil is gone the card auto-completes, or you can hit Auto Reveal to have it scratched for you.
It is built for touch first, so it works properly on phones and tablets rather than being a mouse feature bolted onto a small screen. Teachers use it to pick a student, offices use it for prize draws, and parents use it as a low-stakes way to settle who chooses dinner.
Simple, fast, and fun
Type names one by one or paste a whole list. Your names are saved in your browser for next time.
A lottery ticket appears covered in silver scratch foil, with the winner already sealed underneath.
Drag your finger or mouse across the foil. Scratch as much or as little as you like — it completes automatically once mostly cleared.
The name is uncovered with confetti. Remove the winner and generate a new card, or keep the list as it is.
Built for fairness and fun
Uses the Web Crypto API (crypto.getRandomValues()) so every name has mathematically identical odds. The winner is fixed the moment the card is generated.
The foil erases under your pointer with a proper brush radius, so partial scratches, corners, and diagonal swipes all behave the way a real card would.
Built for fingers first and mice second. Multi-touch safe, with page scrolling suppressed over the card so dragging never moves the page.
In a hurry, or presenting to a room where nobody can reach the screen? One button sweeps a virtual coin back and forth across the card and reveals the winner the same way your finger would.
A filtered noise rasp as the foil comes away and a rising chime on the reveal. Toggle audio from the sidebar gear.
Your list is saved in your browser using localStorage. Come back anytime and your names are already loaded — no account needed.
Copy a shareable link containing your full list so anyone can generate the same card.
No sign-up, no premium tier, no limits. Unlimited cards, and unlike real scratch cards they never cost anything.
Get the most out of this tool
The mode is at its best when someone other than the organiser does the scratching — it removes any suggestion the draw was steered.
Scratching by hand is awkward on a projector. The automatic sweep gives the same gradual uncovering without anyone needing to reach the screen.
The fullscreen button in the top right gives the card the whole display, which makes it far easier to scratch on a tablet.
The winner text scales to fit the card, so first names come out large and legible while long full names shrink.
For multi-prize draws, use Remove on the result so each new card picks someone who has not won yet.
Great for any occasion
Let a student come up and scratch the card themselves. Handing over the reveal makes the selection feel fair in a way that watching a screen does not, and it takes ten seconds.
Project the card and let the person next to you scratch it. Works for holiday draws, team incentives, and picking who gets the good parking spot.
Pass a phone around and let each person scratch their own card for dares, turn order, or teams. The tactile reveal suits a room full of people better than a shared screen.
Who picks the film, who gets the front seat, who does the washing up. Scratching is instantly understood by children and feels like a treat rather than a ruling.
The slow uncovering records beautifully. Creators use it for sponsor draws and audience picks because the reveal is controlled by hand rather than a fixed animation.
Generate a card per participant so everyone scratches to find out who they have. Remove each name as it is drawn.
Pick who answers next in a meeting or workshop. Quick, visual, and less pointed than choosing someone yourself.
Scratch cards have outlasted almost every other form of instant lottery for a reason that has little to do with the prize. The act of revealing is physical and self-paced: you control how fast the information arrives, and you perform the gesture that produces it. That sense of agency, even over a result that was fixed before you started, reliably makes an outcome feel more significant than the same outcome delivered automatically.
Interface research calls this effortful revelation. A result you uncover is processed differently from a result you are shown, because your own action is bound up in it. It is the same reason people shake dice they know are fair and peel lottery tickets slowly. Nothing about the gesture changes the odds, but it changes how the answer feels on arrival.
That is why this mode exists alongside the animated ones. A spinning wheel or a mystery box controls the tempo for you and works best in front of an audience. A scratch card hands the tempo to one person, which suits small groups, kids, and any situation where it matters that someone other than the organiser produced the result. The randomness underneath is identical — only the choreography differs.
Everything you need to know
The winner is selected with the Web Crypto API at the moment you generate the card, using rejection sampling to eliminate modulo bias. It is printed underneath the foil before you touch anything, so scratching only uncovers a result that already exists.
No. Where and how fast you scratch has no effect on the result. The card auto-completes once roughly two thirds of the foil is cleared, but the name underneath was fixed when the card was created.
Yes, and that is what it was designed for. Dragging a finger scratches the foil, and page scrolling is disabled over the card so swiping never moves the page instead.
No. The card completes itself as soon as the name underneath is legible, so clearing the middle is enough — you never have to chase foil into the corners. You can also press Scratch it for me to have the whole thing done for you.
As many as you like. Only the winning name is printed on the card, so a list of 500 works exactly as well as a list of 5.
No. Nothing is bought, wagered, or won beyond whatever you decided the draw was for. It borrows the look of a lottery ticket while being an ordinary random name picker that is free to use.
Yes. Sound is toggled from the gear icon in the sidebar and your preference is remembered between visits.
Yes. Your names are stored locally in your browser and never sent to any server. No account is needed, and no data leaves your device.
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