Bag of tokens

Choosing chores and tasks without an argument

The reason a bag beats a list is that nobody chose. Write the jobs down, put them in, and let each person pull one out. The washing up is nobody's decision any more, which takes the whole discussion off the table before it starts.

Because a token stays out once it has been drawn, four people drawing from a bag of four jobs always ends with four different jobs. Nothing needs crossing off and nothing can be drawn twice by accident, which is the part a hat full of folded paper gets wrong once somebody puts a slip back in without thinking.

A classroom sometimes wants the theatre of the wheel and sometimes very much does not. Presentations, reading aloud, going up to the board: the bag does the same job quietly, in a second, with no music and no countdown, and every child knows their name comes out exactly once before anybody's comes out twice.

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