Random name pickers for the classroom
New Gumball Machine
Turn the crank and a gumball rolls out with a student's name — a game-show twist on the name picker.
🥤Popsicle Stick Cup
A cup of named sticks — one rises out, wobbles, and reveals whose turn it is. The classic cold-call trick, digitized.
🧧Lucky Envelope
A board of sealed red envelopes. Students choose one, it opens, and a name slides out — still fair, no repeats.
🫙Sticker Jar
A sticker flies out of the jar and flips to show a name. Every pick goes on the class sticker chart.
🌍Spin the Globe
Spin the globe, drop a pin, pick a student — with an optional country for a quick ESL speaking prompt.
🎯Name Picker
Randomly cold-call a student from a simple list. No repeats until everyone's had a turn.
Fair picking, every time
A plain random pick can land on the same student three times in a row. Every picker on ClassCarnival avoids that: once a student has been picked, they're set aside until the rest of the class has had a turn, then the pool refills for a new round. You can see who has already been picked on screen, so students know the system is fair.
Which picker should I use?
Use the List Picker when you just need a name fast. The Gumball Machine and Popsicle Stick Cup add a few seconds of suspense that younger classes love. Lucky Envelope lets a student come up and choose an envelope themselves, Sticker Jar builds a sticker chart as you go, and Spin the Globe can give each student a country to talk about — handy for ESL speaking practice.
Need teams instead?
To split the class into groups or run a team quiz, try the Group Maker and the Review Game in Games & Teams.
Made for the projector
Every picker has a big full-screen reveal, works in fullscreen mode, and can be run from the keyboard: press Space for the next pick. Paste in your class list and you're ready — no sign-up needed.