Spin the Wheel
Type your options, give it a spin, let the wheel decide.
Ready-made wheels
- Yes or No WheelStuck on a decision? Give the wheel a spin and let it call it for you.
- What Should I Eat?The eternal question, settled in one spin. Edit the list to match what's actually near you.
- Truth or Dare WheelNo more arguing over whose turn it is or who always picks truth. Spin, and take what you get.
- Random Number Wheel (1–100)A visual way to draw a number between 1 and 100, much more fun than a generator box.
- Heads or TailsA coin flip you cannot drop, lose, or accuse anyone of catching funny.
- What Should I Watch?Forty minutes of scrolling, or one spin. Edit the list to your actual shortlist.
- Who Goes First?Type everyone's names in and let the wheel settle it. No arguments, no rock-paper-scissors.
- Random Letter WheelA random letter from A to Z, drawn in front of everyone.
- Would You Rather WheelSpin for a dilemma, then make everyone in the room defend their answer.
- Date Night Ideas WheelFor when you both say "I don't mind, what do you want to do?" for the fourth week running.
- Chore WheelAssign the jobs nobody volunteers for, without anyone being able to claim it was rigged.
- Workout WheelSpin for your next exercise. No equipment, no planning, no excuses.
- What to Do When You're BoredNot short of options, short of a decision. Let the wheel pick one and get on with it.
How the wheel picks
The result is drawn before the wheel starts moving. When you press spin, your browser's cryptographic random number generator chooses one option, every slice with the same chance, and the wheel is then animated to land on it. The four seconds of spinning are there so everybody watching sees the decision happen. They do not change the odds, and neither does where the wheel stopped last time.
Nothing you type leaves your device. The options live in the open page, and the only other copy is the one you make by pressing Share link, which packs the whole list into the link itself. There is no account and no saved wheel on a server, so a bookmarked link is the saved wheel.
Getting a result people accept
A wheel's real job is not choosing. It is ending the argument, and it only does that if the rules are settled first. Agree what happens on every slice before anyone spins, and agree whether one re-spin is allowed. A wheel that gets spun until the right answer comes up was never deciding anything, and everyone in the room can tell.
The exception is a decision that is only yours. Notice how you feel in the second the result lands: a flash of disappointment at “Sushi” is the answer, and it is fine to overrule the wheel because of it. It is the old coin-toss trick, and the spin still did its job by showing you what you already wanted.
For a giveaway, read the list once before you spin. A name entered twice gets two slices and twice the chance, which is exactly how you weight a wheel on purpose and exactly what goes wrong when entries are pasted in from two sign-up sheets. For several prizes, tick “Remove each winner after spinning” first so nobody wins twice, and spin on a screen the room can see. A spin people watched gets accepted. A name read out from your phone gets questioned, however fair the draw behind it.
Keep options short. Long ones are shortened to fit their slice, and past forty options the slices are too thin to carry a label at all. For a class register or a few hundred entries, the name picker or the raffle suits the job better than a wheel nobody can read.
Is this the same as Wheel of Names?
Same idea, different trade. Wheel of Names is the one most people mean, and it does a lot more: weighted entries, wheels saved to an account, several wheels at once, Google Sheets import and a long list of colour and sound settings. If you run the same wheel every week for a stream or a classroom, it is the better tool.
This one is built for the other case: one phone, one decision, nothing to set up. It opens on a working wheel, the list travels inside the share link rather than living in an account, and the ready-made wheels above cover the decisions people spin for most often. To make one option more likely here, add it twice.
Common questions
- Is the wheel rigged, or truly random?
- Truly random. The winner is chosen by your browser's cryptographic random number generator the moment you press spin, with every slice equally likely, and the animation is then aimed at that slice. The spin is there so people can watch the decision; it never changes it.
- How do I pick several winners without repeats?
- Tick "Remove each winner after spinning" before the first spin. Anyone already picked cannot come up again, a counter shows how many are left, and a reset button appears once everybody has been drawn.
- How many options can the wheel hold?
- There is no cap. Past about twenty options the labels shrink to their smallest size, and past forty the slices are too thin to label at all, although the winner card always shows the full text. For a class list or a long raffle, the name picker is easier to read.
- Can I save a wheel for next time?
- Press Share link and bookmark what it copies. The whole list is packed into the link, so opening it brings the wheel back exactly as it was. A list too long to fit in a link is copied as plain text instead, ready to paste back in.
- Is anything I type stored or sent anywhere?
- No. Your options exist in the open page and in any link you choose to share, and nowhere else: there is no account and no server copy. Analytics records that a spin happened and how many options the wheel had, never what they were.