Spin the Wheel

What the wheel spinner does

Spin the wheel turns a list into a wheel of equal slices and picks one at random with a spin. It makes a choice feel fair and gives everyone something to watch, whether you are picking a name in a classroom, a giveaway winner on a stream, the order of speakers, or who does the washing up.

It opens with a list of dinner ideas so you can try it straight away. Replace them with your own entries, anywhere from two to 200.

How to use the wheel spinner

1. Type your entries, one per line. Blank lines are ignored and the wheel updates as you type.
2. Use Shuffle to mix the order, Sort to put the entries in alphabetical order, or Reset to bring back the sample list.
3. Press Spin in the centre of the wheel. You need at least two entries.
4. Tick Remove the winner after each spin to draw several winners without repeats.

Tips

Every line becomes its own slice, so typing the same entry twice gives it two slices and twice the chance. That is a simple way to weight an option, and a reason to check for accidental duplicates before a fair draw. The duplicate line remover can tidy a pasted list first.

Winners appear under the wheel for the current session, newest first, with the latest 20 shown, which helps when you draw several in a row. If your device is set to reduce motion, the wheel skips the spinning animation and shows the result almost at once.

Questions

Is the result fair?

Yes. The winner is chosen first with a cryptographically secure random number, giving every entry the same chance. The wheel then animates to land on that entry.

Does the order of entries change the odds?

No. Each slice has the same chance wherever it sits on the wheel. Shuffle and Sort only change how the wheel looks.

How many entries can I add?

Up to 200. Long names are shortened on the wheel but shown in full as the winner.

Are my entries saved?

Your list is kept in this browser so it is there next time. It is not sent anywhere. The list of winners is cleared when you leave the page.