Secret Santa Generator

No account needed, and each person sees only their own match.

The whole draw runs in your browser. You paste the names, mark who cannot draw whom (couples, families, last year's match) and the tool returns one private link per person, with a ready-made message for WhatsApp or a text. The match travels inside the address, after the # sign, a part the browser never sends to a server: no email, no account, no list stored anywhere but your device. The draw is a derangement, a shuffle where no one draws themselves, picked uniformly at random from all valid ones with the browser's secure generator (crypto.getRandomValues), without bias. With 6 people there are 265 valid draws out of 720 orders; with 10 people, 1,334,961 out of 3,628,800, about 36.8%, which is 1/e. If your rules make a draw impossible, the tool tells you exactly who is left with no option. And you can post a SHA-256 hash before the party to prove afterward that the pairs were not changed.

Names, rules, draw and one link per person.

1. Paste the names, one per line (or separated by commas), and add the suggested budget and exchange date if you like.
2. Under Draw rules, build groups of people who cannot draw each other and pick the normal draw or the chain. Then tap Draw.
3. Tap WhatsApp next to each name to send the private link. No one, not even you, needs to see the pairs: each person opens their own link and finds out theirs.

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<p style="font-size:12px;margin:6px 0 0">Tool by <a href="https://jkit.tools/en/tools/secret-santa-generator">J-Kit</a></p>

Cite or link to this tool

<a href="https://jkit.tools/en/tools/secret-santa-generator">Secret Santa Generator</a>

Sources and references for this tool

These references help contextualize formulas, standards, APIs and limitations used on this page. They do not replace professional validation when a result has legal, financial, medical or operational impact.

• RFC 3986, Uniform Resource Identifier: FragmentIETF, The fragment (#) is dereferenced only by the user agent and not sent to the server.
• A000166, Subfactorial or derangementsOEIS Foundation, Number of permutations with no fixed points: 9, 44, 265, 14833, 1334961.

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