Pick First Player

Mike Rodarte

About this app

To answer the popular question, "who goes first?", with an answer that is fair and non-biased, use Pick First Player to let the app choose the start player for a game. Avoid problems and disputes by letting a computer make the decision.

While around a table or in a closed shape, choose the number of players in the game, then see which player goes first relative to the person holding the phone or tablet. Pick First Player uses a random number chooser to determine who is the start player.

Pick First Player is Covid-19-friendly since only one person needs to touch the device to choose first player. Tap the result button to refresh the selection in case you'd rather someone else go first. The result is random, so the same player might be chosen multiple times in succession.

Key Features
- Requires only one person to touch the device
- Choose from up to seven players
- Works in portrait and landscape orientations
- Random chooser system
- Ability to refresh the chosen first player
- Quick and easy to use
- Silent
- Ad-free
- Requires no permissions

Besides choosing the first player, people can use this to decide where to eat, determine which game to play, choose what to order, or make many other decisions with a slight adjustment to thinking about the number of places around the table.

This is based on the "Who Goes First" app by Daniel Lew.

Thanks to Nikita Gohel and Kristy Rodarte for design and testing.

What's new

Maintain result on orientation change so the selection of players remains the same as does the random choice of first player