Yes or no generator — let a fair coin answer your question

How to use the yes or no generator

1. Type your question into Question (optional), for example “Order pizza tonight?”. You can leave it empty.
2. Tick Include Maybe if you want three possible answers instead of two.
3. Press Decide. The answer appears large, with your question as its label and the chance of each answer underneath.
4. Press Decide again for a new, independent answer.

What it does and when to use it

This is a coin toss with words on it. Use it when you are stuck between doing something and not doing it: a second coffee, a walk in the rain, starting the film now or tomorrow. A useful trick: when the answer appears, notice whether you feel relieved or disappointed. That feeling tells you what you really wanted.

For more than two options, the spinner wheel or the random picker take a list. If you want the classic twenty fortune-teller answers, try the Magic 8 Ball. For a game where one choice should be more likely than another, use the weighted random picker.

How it works

The tool holds a list of answers: Yes and No, plus Maybe when the box is ticked. It asks the browser for a random 32-bit number with crypto.getRandomValues and maps it to one position in that list. Values that would make one answer very slightly more common are discarded and redrawn, so with two answers each has a chance of exactly 1 in 2, and with three each has 1 in 3.

Every press is independent. The tool keeps no memory of earlier answers, so three No answers in a row do not make Yes “due”.

Worked examples

No question, no Maybe. The output shows “The answer is” with Yes or No, and the line Chance of each: 1 in 2.

With Maybe. Question “Order pizza tonight?” with Include Maybe ticked: the question becomes the label, the answer is Yes, No or Maybe, and the chance line reads Chance of each: 1 in 3.

Question as label. “Go for a run?” appears above the answer exactly as typed, so a screenshot shows both the question and the reply.

Limits and tips

• The answer cannot be weighted; for 70/30 odds use the weighted picker.
• Decide the rule before you press. “Yes means I go” only works if you follow the first answer.
• Nothing you type is sent anywhere; it stays in your browser.