kuji
kuji, a bundle of lot-sticks, one lit kuji, a bundle of lot-sticks, one lit

Drop your fingers.

Pigment blooms from each one, and the paper picks one fair winner. It takes about a second, and it’s very hard to argue with.
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fingers land · the paper holds its breath · one colour floods
From the store listing

The app, as the room sees it.

Let kuji decide: the kuji mark and wordmark One fair winner, every time: a single ink blot on the paper Split into fair teams: pigment splats in two colours Settle who goes first: numbered splats in draw order No free hands? Use a list: the drawn name lit on its paper straw Every draw, your way: the draw settings sheet The record, kept: past draws listed with their winners Creme by day, sumi by night: the light and dark rooms
What it settles

Kuji settles it in seconds, and no one can argue with the result.

Someone has to go first. Someone has to be on Jamie’s team. And the bins aren’t going to take themselves out.

一 One winner Who goes first? Who pays? One is chosen.
二 Several winners The room divides, and each keeps their own colour.
三 Teams Split everyone into sides.
四 Running order Everyone gets a numbered place.
五 Names Keep saved lists and pull a winner hands-free.
About that fairness

We could have used the cheap random number generator. The lazy one. Nobody would ever have known.

Kuji uses your phone’s cryptographic generator instead, the one it uses for encryption keys. We are using bank-grade randomness to decide who takes the bins out.

It’s overkill. But a picker that isn’t fair is just a slower way to argue, and “it’s random, trust me bro” is what every rigged thing in history has said.

Accessibility is free, forever

Kuji tells fingers apart by pattern and position, never by colour alone, so it works if you’re colour-blind. A calm mode takes the flash and the flood out of it. Screen readers announce every control and every result.

The money bit
Unsealed

Kuji never shows you an ad, free tier included. No account, and no “continue with Google”. Kuji Unsealed is one payment, never a subscription.

Free gives you the pick, two teams, one winner and three saved lists. Unsealed raises all of those and adds palettes and finer control. The pick itself is never for sale.

Out now

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Free, no ads, and no account to make. Kuji Unsealed is one payment if you ever want the extras.

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A short email every now and then: new palettes, the iOS build, and the odd note about how the paper works. Nothing else.

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