We are starting scheduled maintenance now. We expect to be back within 60 minutes. More info: status.random.org

Scheduled Maintenance Advisory On 19 April 2026 from 9.00-10.00 UTC, RANDOM.ORG will be undergoing scheduled maintenance to all services.

We are making changes our infrastructure in order to improve our performance and reliability. For this reason, our services will be unavailable for 60 minutes on Sunday, 19 April 2026, 9-10am UTC. More info: www.random.org/maintenance/...

The Cloudflare incident is resolved and we are now back. If you are still encountering problems, please email us at contact@random.org. Thank you for your patience.

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues.

Our services are affected by the global outage at Cloudflare today. Large parts of the Internet are affected. Further details here: www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...

We're delighted to hear our service was helpful! And we're always excited about research and education. Thank you for letting us know, @cody.im 🤩🙏

Exactly today, RANDOM.ORG has been providing true random numbers to humanity for 27 years 🥳🎈🎉 It took five months for the Internet Archive to find us, but here is what we looked like back then: web.archive.org/web/19990117...

We are back. Our cloud company is still resolving their issue, but the workaround we put in place is keeping us running. Thank you for your patience.

All services are back. Thank you for your patience.

We are experiencing an outage at our cloud company and are looking into the problem. All our services are affected. Next update in 15 minutes.

How random, really, is Spotify’s shuffle feature? A writer sets out to uncover if true randomness exists in the universe

We really enjoyed Heather McCalden's beautiful article about true randomness in the Financial Times today. And thanks for mentioning us! www.ft.com/content/a660... via @ft

2D Random Point Generator Use true randomness from atmospheric noise to place points randomly in a 2D box and draw lines between them.

Today, we're launching a new randomizer that lets you place points randomly on a 2D canvas and draw lines between them. We made it on request for artist David Row (davidrow.com), but we’re sharing it with everyone. Enjoy! www.random.org/points/2d

Very nice write-up about the importance of high-quality randomness (and the history of Random.org!) by
@chrisbaraniuk.com for BBC Future 🙌🎲

Flip your way to freedom How to use coin flips in your day to day

We found the following article about how to use randomness in your daily life a thoughtful and enjoyable read: numinousinsight.substack.com/p/flip-your-... - enjoy!

Randomness has interesting uses for art and music. Our Random Jazz Scale Generator was designed to help students of jazz guitar and was co-designed with Gareth Hougham from our user community: www.random.org/jazz-scales/

Did you know you can explore the Earth using true randomness? Our random geographic coordinate generator will pick a random location on the planet's surface and show it with #OpenStreetMap or #GoogleMaps
www.random.org/geographic-c...