Object · The workshop · Proposed
Drawing lots
A hat with slips in it, a handful of dice and a button to toss. For deciding what nobody wants to.
Drawing lots, in the Tools folder on the desk, throws up to six dice, tosses a button from the workshop jar, front or back, and draws slips out of a hat: names typed in by hand, or a game, a site, a piece of Fresh slop or a word from the lexicon. A slip can go back in the hat or stay out until the hat is empty. Every draw is the browser’s own fair chance, not the day’s, so nobody can know what comes out before it does. The names typed in are kept in the biscuit tin; the draws are not kept at all.
The codex proposes that the hat belongs to nobody in particular, and that the shortest slip in it means the washing up. This is proposed by the codex and is not canon until approved. Like the rest of the desk, the hat, the dice and the button are machine-made.
The facts
- Kind
- Object
- World
- The workshop
- On the desk
- Drawing lots
- Status
- Proposed by the codex, waiting for approval
- On record since
- 7 November 2026 (a real date: the day it was first added to the codex)
