Random Candy Generator

The Random Candy Generator picks one candy from a list of 87 and shows you a photo, the name and a sentence or two about it. That is the whole tool. There are no filters or settings, just a button you can press as many times as you like. It answers the "give me a random candy" request for anyone settling a snack debate, building a tasting lineup or filling in a candy-themed game.

What is on the list

The 87 entries are almost all brand-name candies sold in the United States, with a few imports like Toblerone, Mamba and Wunderbar mixed in. Roughly, they fall into five groups:

• Chocolate bars: Snickers, Twix, Kit Kat, Milky Way, Three Musketeers, Butterfinger, Baby Ruth, Payday, 100 Grand, Heath, Skor, Mr. Goodbar, Almond Joy, Mounds, Take 5, Mars Bar, Zero and older names like Clark Bar, 5th Avenue, Skybar and Goo Goo Cluster.
• Fruit chews and gummies: Starburst, Skittles, Airheads, Laffy Taffy, Now and Later, Mike and Ike, Swedish Fish, Dots, Jujyfruits, Gushers, Hot Tamales and Sour Patch Kids.
• Hard candy, lollipops and sour stuff: Jolly Rancher, Jawbreakers, Gobstopper, Lemonhead, Blow Pops, Tootsie Pop, Ring Pop, Atomic Fireball, Red Hots, Warheads, Lifesavers, Werther's Original, Spree, SweetTarts, Smarties, Nerds, Razzles, Pop Rocks and Fun Dip.
• Movie-theater boxes: Milk Duds, Junior Mints, Whoppers, Raisinets, Goobers, Sno-Caps and Reese's Pieces.
• Old-fashioned counter candy: Bit-o-Honey, Slo Poke, Chick-o-Stick, Boston Baked Beans, Charleston Chew, Sugar Babies, Cherry Sours and Orange Slices.

You will not find regional sweets from outside North America, homemade confections or generic terms like "caramel" here. If you want a broader food pick, the Random Dessert Generator and Random Snack Generator cover baked goods and salty snacks respectively.

What each result shows

Each card has a product photo, the candy name as a heading and a short description of the flavor or texture, such as "chewy caramel center drenched in chocolate" for Milk Duds. The descriptions are informal one-liners, not ingredient lists, so do not rely on them for allergen or nutrition information. Because every press is an independent draw, the same candy can come up twice in a row.

Ways people use a candy randomizer

• Picking which candy to buy at the checkout when you cannot decide, or which one to hand out from the Halloween bowl.
• Running a blind taste test: generate five candies, buy them, and have friends guess each one.
• Choosing the prize for a classroom or office game so nobody accuses you of playing favorites.
• Prompting a drawing, a short story or a social post with a specific candy as the subject.
• Settling a "best candy bar" argument by letting chance name the two contenders for a bracket.

For a full meal instead of a sweet, try the Random Dinner Generator or the wider Random Food Generator. A healthier draw lives at the Random Fruit Generator, and all food & drink generators are listed on the category page.