Need Ideas for Fair Gift Distribution for my Valentine Event

[promise444c5]

Lately, I’ve been working on creating an event that could bring forum members together to celebrate the month of love, Valentine ..

Event Idea
The idea is to create a thread where members can participate and share gifts among themselves. However, I wanted to make it more fun than simply letting users pick each other and send random gifts..So I came up with the idea of pairing users randomly as Valentines and having them share gifts with their assigned partners.

How the Gifting Works
To make it even more interesting, the gifting follows a pattern. A gift allocated to a user will be sent to their Valentine. That Valentine will also have their own Valentine, whose allocation will be sent to theirs, and so on. This way, everyone both gives and receives, but not directly from the same person..

To add suspense, only the Valentine pairs will be revealed by the 12th. The final gift allocation will then begin on the 14th October..


Hence, After putting this plan together, I concluded that creating a website to support the forum thread (which I would be creating very soon) would make organization easier. The site handles participant stats, pairing, and gift allocation.
So I created Bitval site to manage this.

Current Challenge
At the moment, I’m facing a challenge with handling the allocation in a way that ensures fair distribution among participants.
I’ll need Ideas and contributions from you guys to make this successful.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/p444c5/BitVal

Relevant Code
The method handling the allocation is inside */controller/exchangeController.
Method name:allocateGifts()

I got the idea I currently used in the method (allocateGifts ()) from the AI  model i am using .

I don’t know if this actually fits on the current board, if it doesn’t please  move to appropriate board .

[bitmover]

b]Current Challenge[/b]
At the moment, I’m facing a challenge with handling the allocation in a way that ensures fair distribution among participants.
I’ll need Ideas and contributions from you guys to make this successful.

Your website looks very nice promise444c5, I liked the design.

We talked a little in PM, I hope I can help you with ideas to make it provably fair. As I already mentioned, it is important to avoid math.Random()

You need an even number of participants, right? How many participants are you thinking about? Is there a limit?

[promise444c5]

We talked a little in PM, I hope I can help you with ideas to make it provably fair. As I already mentioned, it is important to avoid math.Random()

Yes.. I already went through same url you gave me earlier while discussing but I haven’t attempt modifications yet.  It doesn’t affect the pairing,  but I can still make use of it and set max as the legth of participant ..
Thanks for the link..

You need an even number of participants, right? How many participants are you thinking about? Is there a limit?

Not sure how forum users will turn up for it , maybe around 30~50  but I might just limit it  to 100 if more users show interest within the deadline period..  There’s possibility of few 10 to 20 too but any how  my target is 100 .
Each will deposit minimum of $5 and max of $10 (applies to anyone that one to add extra $5 to the pool) in BTC.

I can’t control the number of participants except it reaches the limit so there’s possibility I get odd numbers of participants aswell.

Your website looks very nice promise444c5, I liked the design.
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Thanks.