Yes or no

Yes or no decider

Stuck on a choice? Ask a yes or no question and let the decider answer for you, with an optional maybe to keep things interesting.

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Include a Maybe

How the yes or no decider works

Think of a question you can answer with yes or no, hit Decide for me, and the decider cycles through the options before settling on one. Turn on Include a Maybe when you want a third way out. A yes lands with a little confetti to celebrate the go ahead.

Stop overthinking small choices

Not every decision deserves a long debate. Should you order dessert? Take the scenic route? Text them back now? Handing a small, low stakes choice to chance clears it off your plate in a second, and often the moment the answer appears you realize which one you were quietly hoping for.

Fair and lighthearted

Yes and no have equal odds, and the optional maybe splits the outcome three ways when you add it. It is a playful nudge, not fortune telling, so use it for the choices that genuinely do not matter much and keep the big ones for yourself.

Are the odds really even?

They are. The answer is drawn from your device’s cryptographic random number generator through crypto.getRandomValues, with rejection sampling to remove modulo bias, so yes and no each land exactly half the time. Add the maybe and each of the three answers lands one time in three. Nothing about your question, your wording, or how many times you have already asked changes the next answer: the decider has no memory and no opinion.

Mode	Possible answers	Chance of each
Yes or no	Yes, no	50% each
With a maybe	Yes, no, maybe	33.3% each
Yes twice in a row	Yes, yes	25%
Yes three times in a row	Yes, yes, yes	12.5%

Why asking twice does not help

Almost everyone re-asks when the answer is not the one they wanted. That is worth noticing rather than hiding, because it is the most useful thing a decider does. The moment you feel the urge to ask again, you already know your preference. The economist Steven Levitt ran a study in 2016 in which thousands of people settled a real, stalled decision with a coin toss, and those the coin pushed into making the change reported being happier six months later than those who stayed put. The mechanism is not magic: a random answer breaks the deadlock and forces you to notice your own reaction. So use the first answer, or use your reaction to it, but do not keep asking until chance agrees with you.

When to use something else

A yes or no decider only handles two answers, or three with the maybe. The moment you have a list of real options, such as which restaurant, which film, or who does the washing up, the spinner wheel is the better tool because everyone can see all the options and watch the pick happen. For a straight two way tie with a bit more ceremony, the coin flip is the classic, and for picking a person out of a group use the random name picker.

Frequently asked questions

Can I add a maybe?

Yes. Tick Include a Maybe and the decider chooses between yes, no, and maybe with equal odds, so each answer lands one time in three.

Are the odds even?

Yes. Yes and no are a fair 50/50, drawn from your browser's cryptographic random source with modulo bias removed. Adding maybe splits it three ways at 33.3% each.

What should I use it for?

Small, low stakes choices where you just want a quick nudge in one direction: dessert or not, go out or stay in, start now or after lunch.

Can I ask the same question again?

You can, but the answer will not get any truer. Each draw is independent, so asking twice just gives you a second coin toss. If you find yourself re-asking, that reaction tells you which answer you were hoping for, which is the real value of the tool.

Is this a magic 8 ball?

No. A magic 8 ball hands back one of twenty vague phrases. This gives a straight yes or no with even odds and no mysticism attached, which is what you want when the point is to settle a choice rather than read a fortune.

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