A line of people in hats and winter coats in the snow, winding out of sight around a large white building, photographed in 1909

The internet's most pointless queue.

One line. One door. Nobody has said what is behind it. The door takes one person every 6 seconds and it is taking them right now.

18

is the next number out of the machine

People waiting0
The door takes6s per person
Your wait, roughly0s

No account. No email. You can leave whenever you like.

Department of Nothing17 served

Sixty percent of what is behind that door is some form of nothing. All twenty endings and their exact odds are on one page, because a draw nobody can check is not a draw.

An engraved 1898 share certificate beginning "This is to Certify that"
An 1898 certificate, engraved to prove that something had happened. Yours is printed from a browser.

The small print

Your number
It comes from one sequence that has been running since the line opened. Nobody can buy a better one and nobody can skip. Go through the door and come back, and you start again at the end.
90 seconds
Close the tab and your place is held for 90 seconds. After that it is gone and the line moves past it. An abandoned place never slows anybody else down, which is the only reason this works at all.
2 minutes at the door
When the door reaches you, you have 2 minutes to take what is behind it. Miss the window and the door moves on without you, and you can take another number.

Your place lives in one cookie and nothing else. There is no account to make, no password to forget and no email to give us.

Not our door. A door, opening, onto a corridor whose end is not visible from here.

Live from the door

The door last gave somebody
The Duck of Destiny · common
King of the Internet
nobody, the throne is empty
Happening to the whole line
nothing, it never lasts

Nothing is happening to the line at this moment. It never lasts long when it does.

A line of people in winter coats in the snow, winding out of sight around a large white building, 1909A 1940 building under a sign reading Department of Motor Vehicles, with a queue down the streetA long queue of people waiting to be fed, New York City, 1932

The line is still moving.

Take a number

0 people are standing in it at this exact moment, and it takes about four seconds to join them.