🎁 Mystery Boxes
Shuffle the boxes. Pick one. Find out what you have done.
How to play Mystery Boxes
- Press shuffle — every name is sealed into a box at random.
- Pick whichever box you fancy. Trust your gut. Your gut knows nothing.
- Turn on reveal the others to see what you narrowly avoided.
- Weighted names get more than one box on the table.
Your list is shared across every game on Pickyroo — set it up once here and the wheel, the races and the bracket will all be ready to go with the same names.
When to use Mystery Boxes
Every other game here decides for you. This one lets you choose, and then demonstrates over the following second that your choice was worth precisely nothing. It is the fastest game on the site and the only one where the player has a job.
- Giving one particular person the ceremonial honour of doing the picking.
- Children, who will select a box with tremendous and entirely misplaced conviction.
- Repeated quick draws — shuffle, tap, done, in under five seconds a go.
- Prize reveals where opening the losing boxes afterwards is half the fun.
Questions
Does it matter which box I pick?
Not in the slightest, and that is the joke. The boxes are shuffled with a fresh Fisher-Yates every round, so all of them are exactly as good as each other.
Can the site pick for me?
Yes — switch on let the roo pick for me and it chooses a box itself.
How many boxes can there be?
Up to 24, including the extras that weighted names get.
Try another one
Same names, completely different result — your list follows you from game to game.