Rico, I think two possible ways may have been used. The first was to place us all in spiritual type Bingo cage that would stop at a random number of spirits. Perhaps when he got to the Mormon and Catholic categories, He decided to increase the upper possible number.
The other way would be in a spiritual Scrabble manner, in which we were drawn once again at random and our family unit either spelled out something like food storage or else bvlkx.