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Random Pairs

For partner work, secret buddies, doubles and every other time a room has to be split down the middle without anybody choosing.

The pairs

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The draw

0 names, kept in this browser

Recent rounds

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Shuffled, then cut in twos

The whole list is shuffled and then read off two at a time, which is what makes every possible set of pairs equally likely. Picking pairs one at a time out of a shrinking list would not.

An odd number of names either makes one group of three or leaves one person on their own — the choice is yours, because in a classroom those are very different situations.

Press again for a different set

Nothing is remembered between rounds, so pressing again gives a genuinely fresh shuffle rather than a rearrangement of the last one.

The names stay in this browser and are never sent anywhere.

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