What is You Draw Straws?
Having trouble making a group decision? Can't decide who's the designated driver, which movie to watch, where to eat dinner, the play or a football game? Use Youdrawstraws to make that hard decision for you, and keep peace at the office, your house or with your friends!

This online tool can be used for and by: teachers, educators, schools, as a learning aid. Just for fun for conflict resolution, making decisions for a group with many variables.

(Download a "Flash" version of You Draw Straws for your website - click here! )

You may use it for making the final decision for unpleasant duties like: chores, responsibilities like cleaning the bathroom, emptying the garbage...

Or to just help your group with something like: what movie to go see, what time...

Still can't figure it out?

Wikipedia has "drawing straws" defined like this:

"Drawing straws
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Drawing straws is a selection method used by a group to choose one person to do a task when no one has volunteered for it. The same practice could also be used to choose one of several volunteers should an agreement not be reached.

The group leader takes a number of straws or similar long cylindrical objects, and makes sure one of them is physically shorter than the rest. He then grabs all the straws in his fist such that all of them appear to be of the same length.

The leader then offers the clenched fist to the group. Each member of the group draws a straw from the fist. At the end of the offering, the person with the shortest straw is the one who must do the task.

This practice is immortalized in the cliché "drawing the short straw," meaning to be randomly, unluckily, or unfairly selected to perform a task or suffer some penalty".

Our site is also used on this page for an example of "Internet straw drawing" in the external links - go see it!