Spin the Wheel
Type your options, press spin, and let the wheel decide. Nothing to install, no account, and the link you copy rebuilds the same wheel for anyone you send it to.
The list is kept in the address bar, so the link you copy rebuilds this exact wheel.
Save your wheels instead of retyping them
This page forgets everything when you close the tab. Spin The Wheel keeps your wheels, ships ready-made ones like What to Eat and Win or Lose, and lets you set a colour, a photo and a sound per slice.
Why a wheel beats arguing
A spinner is not really a random number generator with decoration. It is a way of agreeing in advance to accept an answer. Six people can debate where to eat for forty minutes; the same six will accept a wheel in ten seconds, because everyone watched it land and nobody chose it.
That is why the same list of uses comes up everywhere:
- What to eat. The default wheel here, and the most common reason people open one.
- Who goes first. Board games, presentations, the washing-up.
- Classroom picking. Cold-calling without any accusation of favouritism.
- Giveaways and raffles. Visible, and you can screenshot the result.
- Chores and rotas. Remove each winner and keep spinning to produce a full order.
How the randomness works
The winner is picked before the animation starts, using crypto.getRandomValuesrather than Math.random, with rejection sampling so that no slice is even slightly favoured by the maths of dividing a random number by the number of options. Then the wheel is spun to land on it. Doing it the other way round — spinning first and reading off the angle — is where subtly unfair wheels come from.
Sharing a wheel
The list lives in the URL, not on a server. Copy the link and the wheel travels with it: into a group chat, a lesson plan, a calendar invite for the weekly stand-up. There is no account, nothing is saved anywhere, and there is no wheel to lose when a service shuts down. The trade-off is that a link is the only copy — if you want wheels that persist, that is what the app is for.
Questions
Is the wheel actually random?
Yes. The winning slice is chosen with your browser's cryptographic random number generator and rejection sampling, so every option has exactly the same chance — including the one that keeps losing. The spin animation is drawn afterwards to land where the result already says; it has no influence on the outcome.
Can I share my wheel with someone else?
Yes, and that is the point of the copy-link button. The whole list is stored in the address, so anyone who opens the link gets the same wheel without signing in or installing anything. Nothing is stored on a server — if you lose the link, the wheel is gone.
How many options can I add?
As many as you can read. Labels shrink as the wheel fills, and past roughly twenty slices the text gets too small to be useful on a phone — the name picker is the better tool at that point, since it draws from a list instead of a wheel.
Can I make one option more likely?
Add it more than once. Two lines saying “Pizza” gives pizza two slices and double the chance, which is the simplest honest way to weight a wheel.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes, and it is built for one — the wheel scales to the screen and the spin is one tap. It needs no connection once the page has loaded.
