How To Choose A Random Player In The Game?

[ferceplay78y (Rexaxee)]

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You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

1. I want to create a system to choose a random player when there are at least 2 players in the game.

2. My issue is the script doesnt choose a random player and errors multiple times.

3. I’ve checked Youtube videos but most code outdated I checked the forum couldn’t find much on this particular topic.

So this is my script that is giving me difficulties if it is an easy fix if you could tell me why it was messed up I would appreciate it.

for _, plr in ipairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
	if #plr >= 2 then
		local RandomPlayer = plr:GetChildren()[math.random(1,#plr)]
		print(RandomPlayer)
	end
end

[Jexemie (Jeremie)]

You gotta first get a random number from 1 to the number of players there is like
local rn = math.random(1, #game.Players:GetPlayers())

Then you iterate through the player list and check if i equals your random number

for i, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if i == rn then
print(player)
end
end

[LxTortue (Hyun)]

if #plr >= 2 then should be checking the number of children of the player object, not the player object itself: Use the plr:GetChildren() instead.

for _, plr in ipairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
local children = plr:GetChildren()
if #children >= 2 then
local randomPlayer = children[math.random(1,#children)]
print(randomPlayer)
end
end

[Qinrir (Quin)]

local players = game.Players:GetChildren()

local function selectrandomplayer()
if #players >= 2 then
return players[math.random(1,#players)
end
end

Wrote it on mobile so pls fix typos

[Qinrir (Quin)]

I forgot to mention wrong category belongs in #help-and-feedback:scripting-support

[stefan18v (Innocent_Man)]

you probably dont need the ipairs part, maybe thats the reason why?
you can use this:

if #game.Players:GetPlayers() >= 2 then
local RandomPlayer = game.Players:GetPlayers()[math.random(1,#game.Players:GetPlayers())]
print(RandomPlayer)
end

I didn’t try it out so tell me if anything bad happens

[ferceplay78y (Rexaxee)]

It doesnt work it says ServerScriptService.Script:2: invalid argument #2 to ‘random’ (interval is empty)

[TheLordGamer1820 (ronald)]

You wouldn’t need a for loop for this. You could do something like:

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local randomPlayer = players[math.random(1,#players)]