diff --git a/app/betterplace.ts b/app/betterplace.ts
index d65eb850b5d2653a3cefdf6e893b1b32f7e396a2..95bda6a176860dababba33a98e5bb8831fc9d30d 100644
--- a/app/betterplace.ts
+++ b/app/betterplace.ts
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ const PICTURE_TYPE_REGEX = /(.*)_(\d+)x(\d+)/;
 export const SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES = ["en", "de"];
 export const DEFAULT_LANGUAGE: BetterPlaceLanguage = "en";
 const DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE = 10;
-const MAX_PAGE_FOR_RANDOMIZATION = 1250;
+const MAX_PAGE_FOR_RANDOMIZATION = 10;
 
 const cleanUpHtml = (html: string): string => {
   let result = "";
@@ -251,10 +251,9 @@ const fetchPageOfProjects = (
     });
 };
 
-// Do not select projects from too far back and not the first two pages
+// Do not select projects from too far back
 const randomPageForToday = () =>
-  (new Date().setUTCHours(0, 0, 0, 0) / 100000) % MAX_PAGE_FOR_RANDOMIZATION +
-  2;
+  (new Date().setUTCHours(0, 0, 0, 0) / 100000) % MAX_PAGE_FOR_RANDOMIZATION;
 
 export const fetchProjects = (
   { offset = 0, limit = DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE, location }: ProjectsParameters,
diff --git a/app/betterplace_test.ts b/app/betterplace_test.ts
index 47d01d56939f469528f5969af0077179cf55c419..dcff85e323e70a6a6f774c6cf5c2d9d335814f66 100644
--- a/app/betterplace_test.ts
+++ b/app/betterplace_test.ts
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ describe("betterplace", () => {
   let time: FakeTime;
 
   beforeEach(() => {
-    time = new FakeTime(new Date(2023, 8, 13, 12));
+    time = new FakeTime(new Date(2023, 8, 12, 12));
   });
 
   afterEach(() => {
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ describe("betterplace", () => {
 
       await fetchProjects({}, "de");
 
-      assertSpyCall(fetchStub, 0, { args: [urlForPage(635)] });
+      assertSpyCall(fetchStub, 0, { args: [urlForPage(9)] });
     });
 
     it("queries a different random page the next day", async () => {
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ describe("betterplace", () => {
 
       await fetchProjects({}, "de");
 
-      assertSpyCall(fetchStub, 0, { args: [urlForPage(249)] });
+      assertSpyCall(fetchStub, 0, { args: [urlForPage(3)] });
     });
 
     it("resumes normal pagination after the first page", async () => {
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ describe("betterplace", () => {
       await fetchProjects({ offset: 10 }, "de");
       await fetchProjects({ offset: 20 }, "de");
 
-      assertSpyCall(fetchStub, 0, { args: [urlForPage(635)] });
+      assertSpyCall(fetchStub, 0, { args: [urlForPage(9)] });
       assertSpyCall(fetchStub, 1, { args: [urlForPage(1)] });
       assertSpyCall(fetchStub, 2, { args: [urlForPage(2)] });
     });
@@ -292,12 +292,12 @@ describe("betterplace", () => {
       );
 
       await fetchProjects({}, "de");
-      await fetchProjects({ offset: 6340 }, "de");
-      await fetchProjects({ offset: 6350 }, "de");
+      await fetchProjects({ offset: 80 }, "de");
+      await fetchProjects({ offset: 90 }, "de");
 
-      assertSpyCall(fetchStub, 0, { args: [urlForPage(635)] });
-      assertSpyCall(fetchStub, 1, { args: [urlForPage(634)] });
-      assertSpyCall(fetchStub, 2, { args: [urlForPage(636)] });
+      assertSpyCall(fetchStub, 0, { args: [urlForPage(9)] });
+      assertSpyCall(fetchStub, 1, { args: [urlForPage(8)] });
+      assertSpyCall(fetchStub, 2, { args: [urlForPage(10)] });
     });
 
     it("does not query random projects for the first page when filtering for location", async () => {