🎡 Spin the Wheel
Add your options, spin the wheel, and let it land on one at random — wheel of names, prize picker, or just for fun.
✓ Free Forever · ✓ No Signup · ✓ No Upload · ✓ Works Offline
🔒 Your options never leave your device. The wheel, the spin, and the pick all run in your browser with crypto-grade randomness. No upload, no account — a list you choose to Save stays in this browser only.
Features
- Real spinning wheel — A colorful animated wheel that lands on a genuinely random segment — fun to watch and to share on screen.
- Fair draw — The landing slice is chosen with crypto.getRandomValues before the wheel moves — every slice has the same chance, nothing is weighted.
- Any options — Names, chores, restaurants, prizes, yes/no — type whatever you need to pick between.
- Private — Your list stays in the browser. Nothing uploaded or logged.
How It Works
- Add your options — One per line — they appear as segments on the wheel.
- Spin — Click spin and watch the wheel decelerate and land on one.
- Use the result — The winner is highlighted. Spin again any time.
Use Cases
- Pick a giveaway or prize winner on screen
- Decide where to eat or what to do
- Wheel of names to call on someone in class
- Decide turn order or a random challenge
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the wheel actually random?
Yes — the landing slice is chosen with crypto.getRandomValues (cryptographic randomness), then the wheel animates to it. Every line is one equal slice, so the wheel isn’t weighted — unless you type a name twice: then it gets two slices, and the page points that out.
How many options can I add?
As many as you like, one per line. The labels get smaller as the slices get thinner; past 73 options a slice is too thin for readable text, so the names are left off the wheel and the result line names the winner. The pick stays fair either way.
Does it save my options?
Only if you press Save — then the list stays in this browser’s local storage, on this device only, until you delete it with ×. Nothing is ever uploaded; without Save, refresh and it’s gone.
Can I use it as a wheel of names?
Yes — paste names and spin to call on or pick someone at random.
Can I pick several winners?
Yes. After a spin, “Remove … from the wheel” takes that line out of your list, so the next spin can’t land on it again. Repeat for as many winners as you need — or use Raffle to draw a batch at once.
Notes from Milo 🐨
Spinning my own wheel ten times in a row, one thing gave the game away: every single spin stopped dead in the middle of a slice, which on a projector looks rehearsed. The winner is still picked the same fair way before the wheel moves — but now the pointer comes to rest somewhere different inside that slice each time (never right on a line, so nobody can argue it touched the neighbour). On a phone, the result card now scrolls into view when the wheel stops instead of hiding under the Spin button.
I finally looked at my own wheel properly. With 11 names, the last slice and the first were the same purple, so they looked like one slice twice the size; a long list piled the names on top of each other while my FAQ said they "get small"; and white text on the yellow slice was hard to read. Now neighbours never share a colour, the labels really do shrink to fit (and step aside once the slices get too thin), each slice gets whichever text colour reads best, and there's a Remove button after each spin, so you can draw several winners on the wheel itself. Names typed twice are pointed out, and if your device asks for reduced motion the wheel lands straight away.
The wheel used to just snap straight to an answer — no fun in that. Now it actually spins, slows down, and lands like a real one. Same fair result underneath, just a bit more suspense.
From the blog
- 📖 Wheel of Names: Fair Cold-Calling, Giveaways, and Picking on Screen — A spinning wheel of names makes picking someone feel fair and fun — for classroom cold-calling, live giveaways, or deciding whose turn it is. Here's how to use one well.
Related Tools
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- 🎉 Raffle / Random Name Picker — Pick winners fairly from a list of names — for giveaways, prize draws, or who's up next. Crypto-random, no sign-up.
- 🔢 Random Number Generator — Generate random numbers in any range — one or many, with optional no-repeats. Crypto-fair, instant.
💬 Bug, idea, or just to say hi? Tell Milo 🐨 · [email protected]