# How to get a random text to be pulled out of a data source, then displayed on the screen

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Yes, add each challenge as a separate row in your data source. Set a variable to the list of values from one column of the data source.

Then, when you want to select a random challenge, get and remove a random item from the list and set a variable to it. Display the variable in a label.

There are some examples here:

> [@Random one data output](https://community.thunkable.com/t/random-one-data-output/1664364):
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> When the screen is opened among the data from 1 to 100, / it is hoped that ‘one data (1 to 100) will be automatically selected and output randomly’. I’m trying with a spreadsheet, but it doesn’t work. Help me. I’m referring to this, but there’s no " in Local\_DB1 call GetCell ~~"

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