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About this tool
Ask a yes/no question and let the Magic 8 Ball decide.
Magic 8 Ball is a digital version of the classic fortune-telling toy: type a yes-or-no question, shake, and it returns one of 13 stock replies picked uniformly at random. Six are affirmative, three are non-committal, and four are negative, so every shake is an independent draw with no memory of what came before. It is a novelty and a party game, not a decision-making system.
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Enter your yes/no question into the Magic 8 Ball input field, making sure to phrase it in a way that can be answered with a simple 'yes' or 'no'
Click the 'Generate' button in the Result panel to shake the ball; every press re-rolls the answer, and the caption underneath repeats your question in quotes, or reads 'Ask a yes/no question, then shake' while the field is empty
Interpret the Magic 8 Ball's answer, which will be one of its classic responses, such as 'Signs point to yes' or 'Outlook not so good'
All three classic reply types are present — affirmative, non-committal and negative — so you can get a 'try again' instead of only a yes or a no.
The question you typed is shown alongside the answer, so a screenshot makes sense to whoever you send it to.
Re-rolling is a single tap and each roll is independent, so a run of the same answer is coincidence rather than the ball being stuck.
This one has 13: six affirmative, three non-committal and four negative. The original plastic toy uses a 20-sided die with 20 answers, split 10 positive, 5 non-committal and 5 negative.
About 46 percent — six of the 13 replies are affirmative, and each reply is equally likely at roughly 7.7 percent. Another 23 percent of the time you get a non-committal reply such as 'Ask again later'.
Yes, each shake calls the browser's random number generator and picks one reply from the list with equal probability. Nothing is stored, so a previous answer has no effect on the next one and asking the same question twice can easily give opposite results.
You can type anything, but the 13 replies are all yes, no or 'ask again' style, so an open question like 'what should I do' will get an answer that does not fit. Phrase it as a yes-or-no question for a reply that reads sensibly.