JavaScript – How to randomly sample items without replacement?

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One solution is to generate an array (a “bucket”) with all the values you want to pick, in this case all numbers from 0 to 10. Then you pick one randomly from the array and remove it from the bucket. Note that the example below doesn’t check if the bucket is empty, so if you call the function below more than 10 times you will get an error. 

var bucket = [];

for (var i=0;i<=10;i++) {
    bucket.push(i);
}

function getRandomFromBucket() {
   var randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random()*bucket.length);
   return bucket.splice(randomIndex, 1)[0];
}

// will pick a random number between 0 and 10, and can be called 10 times
console.log(getRandomFromBucket());

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