Spin the Wheel — the Wheel of Choice

Add your names or options, spin the wheel, and let a provably fair random pick decide. Free, no sign-up — everything runs in your browser.

Manage Items

    Up to 100 entries. Click the ×1 badge on a row to weight a slice up to ×5 — bigger slice, better odds. Your list is saved in this browser only.

    100% free, no sign-up Runs in your browser — nothing uploaded Provably fair random picks

    How Does Spin the Wheel Work?

    Three steps, all in your browser.

    1

    Add your items

    Type entries one by one (Enter adds fast), or hit Paste list and drop in a whole roster — one entry per line. Up to 100 items fit on the wheel.

    2

    Spin the wheel

    Press SPIN — or click the wheel itself. The winner is picked with cryptographic randomness the moment you click, then the wheel spins up to eight full turns and lands on it. Here's why that's fair.

    3

    Celebrate the winner

    Confetti, a fanfare, and the result. Spin again, or Remove winner & spin to run a full draw with no repeats — perfect for giveaways and raffles.

    What Can You Decide With the Wheel?

    Anything with more than one option and no strong opinion.

    🎁 Giveaways & raffles

    Paste your entrants, spin once per prize, and remove each winner so nobody wins twice. Every entry has an exactly equal chance.

    🏫 Classrooms

    A random name picker keeps participation fair and takes the "why me?" out of cold-calling. Paste the roster once — it's saved for next lesson.

    🍕 What's for dinner?

    The classic. Put the usual suspects on the wheel and let the wheel of choice end the "I don't know, what do you want?" loop for good.

    ✅ Quick decisions

    Yes or no? Heads or tails? Try the pre-loaded Yes/No wheel — or make your own with exactly the options you're torn between.

    👥 Teams & turn order

    Who presents first, who's on kitchen duty, which team kicks off — spin instead of arguing. Shuffle the wheel between rounds for extra chaos.

    🎉 Games & parties

    Truth-or-dare prompts, party forfeits, movie night picks — see 12 fun ways to use a spinning wheel.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    What is a spin the wheel tool?
    A spin the wheel tool — also called a wheel spinner, picker wheel, or random name picker — is a digital prize wheel that picks one option at random from a list you provide. Each entry becomes a colored slice on the wheel; press spin, the wheel turns with realistic deceleration, and the slice that stops under the pointer wins. People use it to pick a student to answer a question, draw a giveaway winner, choose where to eat, assign chores, or settle any small decision where every option should get an equal chance. This one runs entirely in your browser: type entries one by one or paste a whole list, spin as many times as you like, and remove each winner to run a full draw without repeats. There is no account, no upload, and no limit on spins.
    Is the wheel spin really random?
    Yes — and more rigorously than most. This wheel picks the winner using crypto.getRandomValues, the cryptographically secure random number generator built into your browser, with rejection sampling so every entry has an exactly equal probability, free of modulo bias. The winner is actually decided the instant you press spin; the wheel animation then plays out so it lands on that result. That order of operations is what guarantees fairness: the spinning graphics, the ticking pointer and the deceleration are pure theater and cannot influence the outcome. Duplicate entries are allowed and act as natural weighting — add a name twice and it has twice the chance. If you want the full technical story, read our article on whether a wheel spin is really random.
    What is the wheel of choice?
    The wheel of choice is what this tool is: a spinning wheel that makes a choice for you when you can't — or don't want to — decide yourself. Give it your options, spin, and commit to whatever comes up. It is surprisingly effective for everyday decision fatigue: choosing dinner, picking the next movie, deciding who goes first. There is also a classic psychological trick hiding in it — if the wheel lands on an option and you feel disappointed, you have just discovered what you really wanted, and you are free to choose that instead. Either way the decision gets made; we wrote about why this works. Teachers also use the phrase for a classroom wheel that picks students fairly, and this tool handles that too: paste your roster, spin, and remove each winner so nobody is called twice.
    How many entries can I add — and can I weight them?
    You can add up to 100 entries. Type them one at a time (press Enter to add quickly), or use Paste list to drop in a whole roster, one entry per line — handy for class lists, raffle entries, or team names copied from a spreadsheet. Every entry also has a weight badge (×1 by default): click it to cycle up to ×5, and the slice grows proportionally on the wheel, multiplying its odds. Because the slice size IS the probability, the odds are always visible and honest — a ×3 slice is literally three times bigger. In Paste list you can write a weight inline, like Pizza *3. Duplicates still work too. With very large wheels the slice labels get too small to draw, so beyond 60 entries the wheel hides the labels but still picks and announces the winner normally. Your list is saved in your own browser between visits — nothing is uploaded anywhere.
    Do I need an account, and is anything uploaded?
    No account, no sign-up, no upload. The whole tool — the wheel drawing, the random pick, the sounds and the confetti — runs locally in your browser using JavaScript. The names and options you enter never leave your device; they are kept in your browser's local storage so your wheel is still there when you come back, and clearing your browser data removes them completely. Because everything is local, the wheel keeps working offline once the page has loaded, and it is safe to use with real names — a class roster or a customer raffle list is never sent to us or anyone else. There are no usage limits and no premium tier: every feature on the page is free.
    Can I share my wheel with someone else?
    Yes. Press Copy share link and the tool builds a URL with your entries encoded into it — for example ?items=Pizza,Burger,Sushi. Send that link to anyone and their wheel loads pre-filled with the same entries, ready to spin. This works without any server or account precisely because the list travels inside the link itself, not through a database. It is an easy way to hand a giveaway wheel to a colleague, share tonight's dinner options in the group chat, or set up the same classroom wheel on another device. Note that anyone with the link can read the names in the URL, so for sensitive lists just re-paste them instead. For a ready-made decision maker, try the Yes or No wheel, which comes pre-loaded.

    🎉 We have a winner

    Paste your list

    One entry per line — add *2*5 after a name to weight it. Replaces the current wheel (max 100 entries).