Spin the Wheel: Free Wheel of Fortune With Your Own Options

This free wheel of fortune picks one of your own options at random: type names, choices or numbers, one per line, and spin the wheel. Every option gets an equal slice and comes up equally often. There is a Yes / No list and a number picker built in, a full-screen mode for a classroom or a party, and a link that shares your wheel. No sign-up, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.

How to spin the wheel

1. Type your options in the box, one per line: names, choices, tasks or numbers. Or pick a quick list: names, Yes / No, or numbers from 1 to any number you choose.
2. Press Spin the wheel, or tap the middle of the wheel. It turns for a few seconds, ticking past each slice, and stops on one option.
3. Read the result under the wheel. Every spin also goes into the history list, newest first.
4. Taking turns or picking teams? Switch on Remove the winner, and each option leaves the wheel once it has come up.
5. Copy the wheel link or send it in Telegram, and whoever opens it gets the same wheel with your options. For a classroom board or a TV, press Full screen.

How does the wheel pick an option?

The pick is made before the wheel moves. When you press Spin, your browser draws one slice with its built-in cryptographic random generator (crypto.getRandomValues), and draws again in the rare case a value would favour one slice over another, so every option is exactly as likely as the next. The wheel then turns several full times and stops at a random point inside that slice, never on a line, so there is no arguing about which side the pointer is on. Nothing about the spin depends on how hard or how often you press.

If a name is on the list twice, it has two slices and comes up twice as often. That is a simple way to give one option more weight.

Yes or no wheel and random number picker

For a quick decision, press Yes / No: the wheel gets two slices, and a spin answers the question. To pick a random number, type the top number next to Numbers and press Fill: the wheel lists every number from 1 up to it, up to 100. With Remove the winner on, the numbers come up one by one without repeats, like a draw from a hat.

Ideas for a class, a team or friends

• Pick who answers next in class, with the class list and Remove the winner switched on.
• Split people into teams, or set the order of turns in a game.
• Choose a film, a restaurant, a board game or a forfeit when nobody can decide.
• Draw a name for a gift swap, a duty rota or a giveaway among friends.

Need a fair dice instead? The dice roller rolls real-looking dice in the browser.

Frequently asked questions