Number Picker: the random number machine

Number Picker is a random number machine for any group, played on the TV with everyone's phone as their controller.

Pick a ball on your phone and watch it travel through a machine on the TV. A playful way to draw a number from 1 to 10.

Players: Any group
Time: About 30 seconds per pick
You need: A TV with a web browser, and a phone each
Price: In the Trial and Unlimited (plans); players never pay

How do you play Number Picker?

Pick a ball on your phone and watch it roll through a crazy machine on the TV to draw a number from 1 to 10.

30 seconds

Read the video transcript

Lily: The host picks one of the machines on the TV. Each one is a crazy contraption of ramps, wheels and chutes!

Arnold: Pick one of the balls on your phone, and send it on its way through the machine!

Lily: Watch it bounce, spin and drop all the way down. At the bottom, out comes your number, from one to ten!

How to play

Choose a machine
The host picks one of the machines on the TV.
Pick your ball
Choose one of the balls on your phone and send it through the machine.
Watch it land
Follow it through the machine. The TV reveals the number when the ball reaches its finish.

How to win

This is a picker, so there are no points or winners.

What does Number Picker look like?

Real screens from a game: the TV, the players' phones and the host's Backstage. The names are made up.

Number Picker on a TV in a living room, with the real phone screens in front: A ball bouncing through the Theme Park machine on the TV

The Theme Park number machine on the TV, waiting for Priya to pick a ball — The host picks a machine and who draws. Priya picks a ball on her phone.

Priya's phone: ten balls to pick from — The host picks a machine and who draws. Priya picks a ball on her phone.

A ball bouncing through the Theme Park machine on the TV — The ball rolls through the machine on the TV while everyone watches.

Priya's phone: watch the TV — The ball rolls through the machine on the TV while everyone watches.

The TV shows the number 3 that came out of the machine — Out it comes: number 3.

The host's Backstage after the draw: pick again or choose who picks next — Out it comes: number 3.

Host options

Ten machine themes.

What is Number Picker great for?

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Questions

What is it for?

Any time you need a number from 1 to 10 that nobody can argue with: a raffle, choosing a team, who goes first, or which question comes next.

How does it work?

The host picks one of ten machine themes on the TV. A player picks a ball on their phone and sends it into the machine, and the TV shows the number when the ball reaches the finish.

How long does it take?

About 30 seconds a pick, so it fits between games without slowing the night down.

Does anyone score points?

No. It's a picker, not a game, so there are no points or winners.