Zat or Zen – A purely language based form of random selection.

This is a type of verbal coin flipping/dice rolling that I thought up.

Options are given simple code words so that the person choosing doesn’t know what they’re choosing (or which is which) and thus has to make a purely random decision.

For example- Rather than flipping a coin to decide between two options, if I call those two options Zat and Zen and then ask you, “Do you want Zat or Zen?” since you do not know what Zat or Zen means you would have to choose one at random.

The code words would be made up on the spot by a neutral party/ referee and only they would know what they mean so as to ensure that the choice made was totally random.