diff --git a/src/engine/engine.test.ts b/src/engine/engine.test.ts
index 7c14be7..5501da9 100644
--- a/src/engine/engine.test.ts
+++ b/src/engine/engine.test.ts
@@ -246,6 +246,18 @@ describe("variables and document context", () => {
   it("product", () => {
     expect(calcDoc("2\n3\n4\nproduct")).toEqual(["2", "3", "4", "24"]);
   });
+  it("random — deterministic per line text", () => {
+    const [a] = calcDoc("random(1, 6)");
+    const [b] = calcDoc("random(1, 6)");
+    expect(a).toBe(b); // same text → same seed → same result
+    const [c] = calcDoc("random(1, 6) ");
+    expect(c).not.toBe(a); // different text → different seed
+  });
+  it("random — stays in range", () => {
+    const v = Number(calc("random(1, 100)"));
+    expect(v).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(1);
+    expect(v).toBeLessThanOrEqual(100);
+  });
   it("headers split blocks and produce no result", () => {
     expect(calcDoc("# Food\n10\n20\nsum")).toEqual([null, "10", "20", "30"]);
   });
diff --git a/src/engine/evaluator.ts b/src/engine/evaluator.ts
index ebc79d0..a388ebc 100644
--- a/src/engine/evaluator.ts
+++ b/src/engine/evaluator.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ export interface LineCtx {
   /** per-line flags for block boundaries */
   lineKinds: ("empty" | "header" | "normal")[];
   index: number;
+  /** raw line text — used to seed random() deterministically */
+  lineText: string;
 }
 
 export interface EvalCtx {
@@ -490,10 +492,35 @@ function evalCall(name: string, args: Value[], ctx: EvalCtx): Value {
     case "ceil": return x.kind === "quantity" ? { ...x, value: x.value.ceil() } : qty(n().ceil());
     case "floor": return x.kind === "quantity" ? { ...x, value: x.value.floor() } : qty(n().floor());
     case "fact": case "factorial": return qty(factorial(n()));
+    case "random": {
+      const seed = strHash(ctx.line.lineText) ^ (ctx.line.index * 0x9e3779b9);
+      const rand = mulberry32(seed);
+      if (args.length === 0) return qty(new Decimal(rand));
+      const toNum = (v: Value) => v.kind === "quantity" ? v.value.toNumber() : 0;
+      const [lo, hi] = args.length === 1 ? [0, toNum(args[0]!)] : [toNum(args[0]!), toNum(args[1]!)];
+      const isInt = Number.isInteger(lo) && Number.isInteger(hi);
+      const raw = isInt ? Math.floor(rand * (hi - lo + 1)) + lo : rand * (hi - lo) + lo;
+      return qty(new Decimal(raw));
+    }
     default: throw new EvalError(`unknown function ${name}`);
   }
 }
 
+function strHash(s: string): number {
+  let h = 0x811c9dc5;
+  for (let i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
+    h = Math.imul(h ^ s.charCodeAt(i), 0x01000193);
+  }
+  return h >>> 0;
+}
+
+function mulberry32(seed: number): number {
+  seed = (seed + 0x6D2B79F5) | 0;
+  let t = Math.imul(seed ^ (seed >>> 15), 1 | seed);
+  t = t + Math.imul(t ^ (t >>> 7), 61 | t) ^ t;
+  return ((t ^ (t >>> 14)) >>> 0) / 4294967296;
+}
+
 function factorial(n: Decimal): Decimal {
   if (!n.isInteger() || n.isNegative() || n.gt(300)) throw new EvalError("bad factorial");
   let acc = new Decimal(1);
diff --git a/src/engine/index.ts b/src/engine/index.ts
index ff02603..c5d3cdf 100644
--- a/src/engine/index.ts
+++ b/src/engine/index.ts
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ export class SumEngine {
         const ctx: EvalCtx = {
           reg: this.reg,
           vars,
-          line: { lineValues, lineKinds, index: i },
+          line: { lineValues, lineKinds, index: i, lineText: rawLine },
         };
         try {
           value = evaluate(parsed.expr, ctx);
diff --git a/src/engine/registry.ts b/src/engine/registry.ts
index 0122f1a..d713f45 100644
--- a/src/engine/registry.ts
+++ b/src/engine/registry.ts
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ const BUILTIN_FUNCS = [
   "sqrt", "cbrt", "sin", "cos", "tan", "cot", "asin", "acos", "atan",
   "arcsin", "arccos", "arctan", "sinh", "cosh", "tanh",
   "ln", "lg", "log", "log2", "exp", "abs", "round", "ceil", "floor",
-  "fact", "factorial",
+  "fact", "factorial", "random",
 ];
 
 export class Registry {
diff --git a/src/engine/vocab-data.ts b/src/engine/vocab-data.ts
index 5de8097..dcff414 100644
--- a/src/engine/vocab-data.ts
+++ b/src/engine/vocab-data.ts
@@ -431,7 +431,8 @@ export const EN: VocabLocale = {
     "count.variants": "count,how many",
     "min.variants": "min,minimum,smallest",
     "max.variants": "max,maximum,largest",
-    "product.variants": "product"
+    "product.variants": "product",
+    "random.variants": "random,rand"
   },
   "Percent": {
     "as_a_percent_of.variants": "as a % of,as a percent of",
@@ -907,7 +908,8 @@ export const RU: VocabLocale = {
     "count.variants": "количество,кол-во,счёт,число строк",
     "min.variants": "минимум,мин,наименьшее",
     "max.variants": "максимум,макс,наибольшее",
-    "product.variants": "произведение,произв"
+    "product.variants": "произведение,произв",
+    "random.variants": "случайное,случайно,рандом"
   },
   "Percent": {
     "as_a_percent_of.variants": "как процент от,как процент",