Draw the Short Straw provides a fun and interactive way to randomly decide who will do something.
Each person in the draw chooses a straw (You can see everyone else's mouse pointers!) - and the person with the shortest straw loses.![Screenshot of five straws where Grandpa has chosen the shortest straw](/images/screenshot.png)
We provide a Slack app where you can easily create a new draw.
Use the /drawstraws
slash command to create a link in Slack
for everyone to follow:
![Screen shot of the Slack /drawstraws command](/images/slack-command.png)
After everyone has made their draw, the result is posted back into your Slack channel.
![Screenshot of the result of a draw being posted to Slack](/images/result.png)
If you like the sound of outsourcing your important decision making to a randomly chosen straw (and who doesn't!), add the app: