var ants = [ '🐜', // black '🐜', // red '🐜', // yellow ]; function one_ant() { return ants[Math.floor(Math.random() * 2.2)]; // small chance of yellow } function some_ants() { var answer = ""; var i = Math.floor(Math.random() * 12 + 3); while (i--) { answer += one_ant(); } return answer; } document.querySelectorAll('#guesses tr td:nth-of-type(2)').forEach(el => el.innerHTML = some_ants());