Random Team Generator & Group Maker

Picking groups by hand tends to go wrong in predictable ways. The same friends end up together, the quiet person is chosen last, and whoever is choosing gets accused of playing favorites. Letting a random draw decide removes the argument, and it also mixes people who would not have paired up on their own, which is half the point of most group activities.

This tool does that draw for you. It takes your list, shuffles it with your browser's cryptographic random generator, and deals people into groups. You can ask for a number of groups (for example, 5 groups from a class of 28) or a group size (teams of 4), and you decide how to handle the awkward remainder.

Twenty-three people do not split into teams of four. Rather than hiding that, the tool gives you three honest options: spread the extras so sizes differ by at most one, let the last group be smaller, or keep every group at exactly four and show the leftover people as unassigned so you can place them as substitutes, judges or a bonus team.

Keep-apart rules cover the other classic problem. Two students who distract each other, two coworkers who already share a project, or siblings at a family game night can be put on one line, and the generator will not place them together. If the rules are impossible for the number of groups you chose, you will see a plain message saying so instead of a result that quietly ignores the rule.

• Teachers: use a group count to match the number of tables, then print the result for the board.
• Facilitators: use people per group for breakout rooms and name the groups after the topics.
• Game hosts: name the teams, use the big view on a projector, and re-shuffle between rounds.

If you searched for a team picker, this is the same tool. Add everyone who is playing, choose the team size or the number of teams, and press Make groups. Nobody picks, so nobody gets picked last. Re-shuffle if the first split does not suit the room, but agree beforehand how many re-rolls you allow.

To choose one person rather than build teams, the random picker draws a single name, and the random order generator sets a turn sequence.

Once the groups exist, you may want them to do something visible: answer a poll, vote on ideas, or report back in turn. ShuffleTurn can run those as a live room that people join from their phones. Each button starts a new, empty room, since this page does not send your names anywhere, so you would add people in the room itself.