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Overwhelmed by choice? Just can’t decide? Want to add that element of chance? yesnoor.com is the easiest way to get a quick answer to your question. The Yes or No slot machine brings chance, along with a touch of fun and excitement, to your decision-making.

When to use the Yes or No Slot Machine

Do you just need a quick answer, and don’t want to get bogged down in analyzing the choice? Pull the lever and let fate (or our random generator) decide for you. Snap decisions couldn’t be easier.

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Breaking the ice…

In a group and looking for something to break the ice? Let the Yes or No slot machine help. Let it answer fun questions about everyone, or even help decide whether the next player is the one who has to share a secret.

…or breaking a deadlock

Can’t decide if it’s Italian or Chinese food for dinner, movies or bowling for a night out, or whether you should do the chores or not. Yes or No can tell you.

Why choose yesnoor.com?

At yesnoor.com we know that there are plenty of ways you can make your choice, but now we all use contactless payments, you don’t always have a coin to toss. Instead, allow us to add true chance mixed with a little fun.

A word of caution

The yes or no slot machine is fun, but make sure you use it carefully. Many decisions in life need you to take the time to consider options before making a choice. And some just cannot be boiled down to simple yes or no options. The best time to use yesnoor.com is for those casual decisions and entertainment.

Some fun facts about Yes and No

Yes and no are such everyday words that you may never have thought about the concepts they represent, and how complex they can be. As well as being the answers that shaped our lives and our history, yes and no have a surprisingly deep and rich context. Here we share a few fun things about those little words, touching on logic, philosophy, psychology, history, and pop culture. We even share how you can cope if you don’t even have the words for yes or no.

Randomness is a part of nature

Although there’s lots of order in nature — we rely on some fundamental and predictable laws of physics, after all — we also owe a lot of randomness. Whether it’s the unique pattern of a snowflake or the chance changes that are behind evolution, even nature could use our yes or no slot machine.

Having fun makes you more productive

Research has shown that adding fun elements to your work and decision-making can make you more productive. When you have yes or no decisions in the future, trying using yesnoor.com, at the very worst, you will get your decision, but it might just make you even more effective.

Yes and No is what makes computers work

Would we have computers without yes or no? The mathematician, George Boole, used the simple yes or no to develop a system of logic. This was seen as the precursor to the binary system, the 1s and 0s that underpin even the most powerful computers, and he is still honored in computing with Boolean variables that are either true or false. Just think, if a simple yes and no can result in computers, where could your yes or no decision take you?

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Random chance can help you make difficult decisions

We wouldn’t recommend yesnoor.com for major decisions like job or life changes that need careful thought, but that doesn’t mean it can’t help with those decisions.

If you’ve considered all the factors and still can’t make a decision, try pretending to let our Yes or No slot machine decide for you. Ask it your question and let it answer, then see how you feel. Many people will find their immediate reaction to the slot machine’s choice helps them realize what they really want to do.

Quantum yes or no

Although the engine behind yes or no is pretty advanced, be pleased it’s not too advanced. In quantum mechanics, particles can have what’s called a superposition, meaning that it’s both yes and no. So, although we aren’t on the cutting edge of technology, at least we don’t answer ‘both’ when you ask a yes or no question.

Would you like to play a Gaelic version?

Sorry, we can’t help there because there is no such thing as ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in Irish or Scots Gaelic! Instead, if you ask a question that needs an affirmative or negative answer, the answer uses the relevant verb in return. So, if you asked, ‘are you telling the truth’, we’d answer something like ‘we are telling the truth.’

Most languages started without words for yes and no — classical Latin, for example, doesn’t have yes or no — but these arrived as modern languages developed. Gaelic is one of the few languages that never added those two small words.

Beware the psychology of yes and no

There is a lot of psychology at play with yes and no. Yes is often seen as more positive and powerful, while no can be seen as negative and even confrontational. If everything else is equal, people are more likely to say yes to a request if they are in a good mood or the question is framed positively.

Some people use this to their advantage, a technique in sales, called the ‘yes ladder’, is to get people to say yes as often as possible, sometimes even to unrelated things, like ‘isn’t the weather nice?’ People want to stay positive, and that can make them more likely to eventually say yes to buying something.

The power of ‘No’

Despite the negative associations of saying ‘no’, many consider it a very positive thing to say. If you say no to doing some work for someone, for example, rather than a rejection, it can be a positive statement that you need time to focus on something else and wouldn’t be able to help them as well as you would like.

Warren Buffett has been quoted as saying, ‘the difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.’

You might not be choosing to answer yes or no

Whether you actually choose to answer yes or no, something philosophers and neuroscientists debate. The philosophical debate about whether we truly have free will, or our fates are determined by some higher power, has gone on for centuries. More recently science has joined the debate, suggesting that our decisions are actually the result of predictable reactions in our brain chemistry, and neuroscientists suggest that our brain decides before we are even conscious of the choice

It might be that the best way to ensure free will is to let the Yes or No slot machine decide for you!

Different ways to say yes

In English, being asked ‘do you like pizza?’ might get an enthusiastic ‘absolutely’ rather than a straight yes, but some languages have words that still mean yes or no, but with different nuance.

In French, you can say ‘oui’ to answer yes, but you might also need ‘si’, which also means yes, but is specifically used to contradict someone else's negative answer. Japanese can be even more complicated, with multiple ways to say yes depending on your situation, like ‘hai’ for formal situations, ‘ee’ for informal situations, or a very casual ‘un’ which is closer to ‘uh-huh’ in English.

The longest yes or no answer ever?

Yes and no might seem remarkably quick and easy answers to give, but that doesn’t mean everyone gives a yes or no answer quite so concisely.

In one of the most famous debates in the US Senate, ultimately about the issue of whether or not individual states had the power to act as they wished, Senator Daniel Webster believed the answer was ‘no’. However, his speech was so long it lasted two days, between 26 and 27 January 1830. Luckily, he was a skilled orator, and the speech was widely reported and contained many lines that have been used and re-used many times since

The most famous ‘no’

The long history of yes and no means there are plenty of contenders for the most famous one, but at yesnoor.com we’d nominate Darth Vader’s famous ‘Nooooooooooooooo’ at the end of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Often criticized by Star Wars fans, it was quickly parodied, and is now a regularly used meme.