Surprised no one has mentioned this, but the lexically-canonical version of this uses straws of different length. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/draw_straws ht

Surprised no one has mentioned this, but the lexically-canonical version of this uses straws of different length. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/draw_straws https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/draw_straws https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/draw_the_short_straw https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/draw_the_short_straw