Drop a ball through a real physics-simulated peg board onto a slot from your own list -- genuine, unforced bounces, just like a real Plinko board.
Plinko is a free random picker that drops a ball down a real, physics-simulated peg board and takes your answer from whichever slot it lands in -- the same bouncing pegboard made famous by The Price Is Right. Type any short list (names, options, chores, prizes, restaurants), press Drop, and watch the ball rattle its way to one of them. Like Wheel of Names and Card Draw it works off a list you type in yourself, but instead of a spinning wheel or a shuffled deck the result comes from an actual bouncing simulation you get to watch play out.
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It's a favorite of streamers and content creators: dropping a Plinko ball is a natural on-stream moment, so it's an easy way to pick giveaway and raffle winners live on Twitch or YouTube, decide the next game to play, or let chat's suggestions bounce it out. Away from streaming, teachers use it to cold-call students or sort them into groups, offices spin it for who-presents-first or gift swaps, and game nights and Dungeon Masters reach for it on any call where watching the ball clatter down beats a flat coin flip. Anywhere you'd grab a spinning wheel or pull a name out of a hat, Plinko does the same job with more suspense.
Unlike this site's other generators, Plinko doesn't guarantee equal odds -- the ball falls with real, completely unforced physics (gravity, real collisions, real bounces), and whichever slot it lands in decides the result, exactly like a real Plinko board. That means the middle of your list naturally lands more often than the edges, the same way a real board favors the middle. Each row's exact chance is shown right next to it, so you can arrange the list to set the odds -- put your most or least likely picks at the edges if you want them to be underdogs.
Fully real -- there's no pre-chosen result and nothing steering the ball. It just falls, bounces off the pegs, and lands wherever gravity and those bounces take it.
Because the drop is a built-in bit of suspense -- a ball clattering down a pegboard to a winner reads far better on stream than an instant result. It's a quick, visual way to pull giveaway or raffle winners live on Twitch or YouTube, and dropping several balls at once lets you draw multiple winners in one go.
Definitely -- it's one of the most popular uses. Put your entrants one per line and drop a ball to pick a winner; raise the ball count to draw several winners at once. Since the middle of the board lands more often, reshuffle or reorder names between draws if you want the long-run odds evened out.
Yes, by where you put it -- middle slots land far more often than the edges, so items near the center of your list win more. The percentage shown next to each row is that item's exact chance, so you can arrange the list to get the odds you want. If you'd rather every option be exactly equal, use Wheel of Names or Card Draw instead.
Up to 9, one per line -- the board's built to stay readable at that width, unlike Wheel of Names' or Card Draw's longer lists.
Yes -- set an amount (up to 6) and each press drops that many balls at once, each falling and landing completely independently, with a count shown over each slot.
Completely free -- no signup, no watermark, no catch, same as every generator on the site.
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