Chwazi - Finger Chooser

Ivan Seidel Gomes

About this app

First, setup the number of fingers that you desire to choose or how many groups you want to group, then place all your fingers on the screen and wait. Chwazi will make your choice automatically.

Chwazi is a funny and interactive way to randomly select someone from a group of people. It doesn't matter if the question is "Who will pay the bill", Who will buy bread", Chwazi is the right choice.

Note that the maximum number of fingers supported by Chwazi is 32, however, the maximum accepted depends on each device. Usually, it's around 5 to 10.

Ratings and reviews

This has been board gaming's gold-standard first-player chooser for years. Could use a few updates to stay on top: 1) a mode for random turn orders 2) a fullscreen mode on foldables to take advantage of all the real estate. On my Pixel Fold in open configuration, the app only detected fingers in the middle third of the screen and with the black app background on black screen it was not obvious that some fingers were ignored.

Bug or feature? I started noticing patterns, so I ran tests with four fingers. In none of them did the first finger on the phone screen get selected. The numbers were within expected limits for randomness on the others (second = 10, third = 13, fourth = 8). Seems to me like a bug. For playing games, this may actually be a feature. People like going first, so you can ensure that you as the host are not chosen. If using this, as suggested, to decide who pays the bill, this seems like an underhanded backdoor.

The application still works just fine. But there has been no update since 2013. It's now 2019. Currently Android 10 will complain that this is for an older version of Android. Currently the application still performs but this may not be the case going forward. Also note that there is no such thing as an application that has not been updated in 5 years yet containe no vulnerabilities. Users be warned basically. Still 4 stars for no adds and being simple.

What's new

Oh yeah! a few minor updates published:
- Updated minimum version to support newer devices
- Changed purple color to red