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We use the same and it's been fantastic.


Chwazi is great (and free), but you do have to have everyone get their finger on the device's screen (and, btw, some older devices can't recognize more than 5 fingers).

Another free option that just requires you to select the player-count and then tells you who goes first (i.e. no fingers needed) is Who Goes First? [0]

But the most streamlined app is Fast First [1] for $1.99 which, every time you open it, generates images of players sitting around tables for player counts ranging from 2-7 (for Android and it looks like up to 17 with iOS, depending on the device) with a start-player selected for each player-count. That is, you get a screenful of images representing a table of 2 players, a table of 3 players, etc. each with its own random start-player selected. So, if you have, e.g., 5 players at your table, you just open the app and look at the image for 5 players and use the start-player shown in that image.

It does take away the fun interactivity of the finger-based apps, but, that makes it fast to use.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idunnolol....

(There doesn't appear to be an iOS version of this app by Daniel Lew -- there is a similarly named iOS app but it's different).

[1] Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pinnaclega...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fast-first/id847875906




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