Excuse Generator

Shuffle a light hearted, family friendly excuse and copy it in one click.

Shuffle an excuse

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Shuffles: 0 · Excuses in the list: 0

Every excuse is drawn from a curated list and shuffled with your browser's secure random numbers.

Common questions about the free online excuse generator.

Open the tool and press Shuffle. A fresh excuse appears straight away, and the Copy button puts the exact wording on your clipboard.

Yes. Every excuse in the list is light hearted and family friendly, so it is safe for classrooms, family games and work icebreakers.

There are thirty six ready made excuses. They are dealt in a shuffled order, so you see all of them before any excuse comes round again.

No. The tool tracks the shuffled queue and the last excuse shown, so a repeat only happens after every other excuse has appeared once.

Indexes come from the browser's cryptographic random generator with rejection sampling, which avoids the bias a plain modulo would create.

Yes. Press Copy and the exact wording goes onto your clipboard, ready to paste into a message, a note or a group chat.

Yes. It is completely free, needs no account and no sign up, and there is no limit on how many times you shuffle the pack.

Yes. The tool runs entirely in your browser, so it works on phones, tablets and desktops, even with no internet connection.

Last updated: October 10, 2026