About TirageAuSort.io
TirageAuSort.io is a French-language site that brings two things together under a single address: roughly forty interactive random-draw tools (Coin Flip, Wheel of Fortune, Bingo, Rock-Paper-Scissors, virtual dice, color and password generators, and more) and an editorial hub, Le Hasard, which explains how chance works, how it has shaped human cultures, and how it slips — often unnoticed — into our everyday decisions.
The site is free, requires no mandatory registration, no download, no mobile app to install. Everything runs directly in the browser.
Our mission
To help French-speakers use chance as a simple, transparent and honest decision tool, and to better understand its limits when it becomes a trap — particularly in gambling.
This mission has two sides. The first is utilitarian: when you need to draw a name from a team, choose between two options without being able to decide, or run a children's birthday party, you need a tool that works in three seconds. The second is educational: chance is surrounded by false beliefs (the "hot hand," the "number that's due," the illusion of strategy in casinos) that cost time, money and sometimes much more. The Le Hasard hub exists to dismantle these beliefs rigorously, without condescension, and grounded in verifiable scientific sources.
Who runs this site
TirageAuSort.io is run by a single person, based in Quebec City, Canada. The project has no team, no collective newsroom and no outside capital. It is entirely self-funded and depends on no advertiser or partner for its editorial direction.
To preserve some separation between the editor's professional life and the site's identity, articles are signed "TirageAuSort.io Editorial". That doesn't mean nobody is writing behind the byline: all content is written and edited by the same person, who takes responsibility for the editorial choices described below. Press, partnership or right-of-reply requests can be sent via the Contact page — a personal, signed reply will follow.
Our editorial approach
Three principles guide content production on TirageAuSort.io.
1. Verifiable sources, not opinions.
Every article in the Le Hasard hub cites its sources at the end of the page: scientific publications, regulatory authorities, public health bodies, historical archives. When a figure appears in the text (probability, rate, history), it comes from a source you can open and read for yourself. If we don't know, we say we don't know.
2. The reader is an adult.
Articles aren't written for an audience to be shielded from complexity. Probability calculations are laid out clearly, nuances are owned, contradictions in research are flagged. When a topic is poorly settled by science, the article says so rather than oversimplifying.
3. No moralizing.
The site explains why certain mechanisms (compulsive play, draw addiction, magical thinking) are risky, but it doesn't judge the people who face them. When a topic touches public health — like gambling addiction — it points to help resources rather than a sermon.
Our commitments
No casino games, no lotteries
On April 25, 2026, eight simulators (blackjack, roulette, slot machine, keno, Loto and EuroMillions generators, etc.) were removed from the site, permanently. The decision is explained in detail in the article Why TirageAuSort.io doesn't offer casino games. The criterion is not chance itself — chance is everywhere on the site — but the variable-rate reinforcement mechanism specific to gambling, which turns a hobby into a downward spiral.
In the same spirit, the article Lottery: your real chances of winning explains in numbers, without dramatization, what the probabilities of a French national Loto win really represent.
Transparency about how the tools work
All draws offered on the site are run directly in your browser, with no round-trip to our servers. No personal data is collected by the games themselves. The article Under the hood of TirageAuSort.io details the libraries used, the chosen pseudo-random number generator, and the mathematical limits of "true" chance on the browser side.
No compulsive engagement
The site offers no reward system, no gamification, no mechanism designed to bring you back beyond what you actually need. No push notifications, no daily-draw streak to maintain, no aggressive pop-ups. You arrive, you draw, you leave.
Security and minimal data
The tools are designed to work without registration. When a user account becomes available (in development, planned for 2026), it will remain strictly optional and its rights will respect the GDPR, Quebec's Law 25 and equivalent Canadian and Californian standards. See our Privacy Policy for details.
History
Initial launch of the site with about ten draw tools in French.
Internationalization in six additional languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Hindi, Arabic).
Decision to remove the eight casino and lottery games, and launch of the editorial hub Le Hasard: eight first-wave articles published, around the Understanding, Strategies and probabilities, and Responsible gaming pillars.
Work begins on an optional accounts system for bug reporting, game suggestions and favorites (all data opt-in, on a Supabase architecture with strict access rules).
Get in touch
For any question, suggestion, report or press request, see the Contact page. For questions related to personal data processing, see the Privacy Policy and the Legal notice.