About Roliq
Roliq is eleven tools for the moments a group needs a decision, a turn order or a clock: a wheel, dice, cards, a number generator, a coin, a list shuffler, a name draw, a countdown, a timer, a scoreboard and a bottle spinner. Each one runs in a browser with no download and no account.
They exist as separate tools rather than one configurable randomizer because the questions are genuinely different. Picking one name out of thirty, ordering all thirty, and splitting thirty into five groups are three problems, and a single interface that tried to cover all three would do each one worse.
How the randomness works
Random selections use a cryptographic random source through the Web Crypto API, locally or in the shared-session runtime. Timers and the scoreboard do not make random selections. Candidate values that fall outside a clean range are discarded and drawn again rather than folded back with a remainder, which is the step that would otherwise give entries at the start of a list a slightly better chance.
The practical consequence is that a wheel of seven names gives each name a one-in-seven chance, not a one-in-seven-with-a-bias-toward-the-first-three. For a classroom or a games night that difference is invisible; for a giveaway where somebody is going to ask, it is the difference between a defensible answer and a shrug.
Independent coin tosses and die rolls do not compensate for earlier outcomes. Other tools maintain a pool: dealt cards remain unavailable until reset or shuffle, and a wheel label stays out after you press Hide selected. The available pool determines the next selection.
What the tools deliberately do not do
None of them are certified lottery or gambling mechanisms. The randomness is sound, but there is no audit trail a regulator would accept, so anything licensed or legally binding needs the process its rules specify.
None of them know your group. The shuffler balances groups by headcount and nothing else; the scoreboard records the points a person presses and scores nothing automatically; the bottle spinner picks a player and supplies no prompts.
The number generator is not a password generator. Use a password manager for anything that protects an account.
Browser alerts are best-effort. Background tabs get throttled and sound and notifications can be blocked until permission is granted, which is why the timer and countdown pages say so plainly rather than promising an alarm.
Built for groups, not just for one person
The thing that separates these tools from a random number in a search result is that other people can watch. Any tool can be shared as a link, and a shared session distinguishes between the person running it and the people following along — who can act depends on the access settings and the role they were given, so a viewing link does not hand over control.
That matters because most of these decisions are social. Showing the input list and explaining the rules lets participants understand the choice. The mechanism has to be fair and it has to be seen.
Languages and availability
Roliq is available in thirteen languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Russian. Arabic is served right-to-left throughout.
Every tool is free and works without an account. Signing in exists for shared sessions, where the results need to persist for other participants rather than living in one browser tab.