Wheel Spinner Guide

Moments made for a spin

In classrooms and study groups, it shines for picking presenters, assigning cleanup duty, and forming teams. Enter your students' names once and save them under My wheels — next time, just load the list. Share the link and another teacher can use the exact same roster.

At get-togethers and team dinners, it settles menu choices, who pays the bill, and penalty picks. Either-or calls like Yes/No, Winner/Try again, and Pass/Fail start instantly from a single preset button — or load the lunch preset and swap in your team's regular spots.

At events and on stage, raffles and turn orders are the classic uses. Switch After each spin to Remove and present fullscreen — winners drop off one by one, keeping the suspense up to the very last spin.

Keep mode and Remove mode

Keep is the default mode: winners stay on the wheel. Use it when you spin the same list again and again — "what's for lunch" — and the Recent results list keeps track of what you've just spun.

Remove takes each winner off the wheel as you keep spinning. The drawing order is recorded step by step, and once everything is drawn you see the full order at a glance — perfect for raffles, and just as good for deciding presentation order or turns. When only one item is left, the last one is confirmed automatically.

When the draw is done, you can save or share the drawn order as a single image. Instead of a screenshot, drop a clean order card into the group chat to announce the results.

Fairness and odds

The moment you press Spin, the winner is decided by your browser's cryptographic random number generator — the spinning animation just plays out that result. Device speed, dropped frames, and the timing of your press have no effect on the outcome.

There's no per-item weight setting. Instead, add the same item on several lines — each copy is one more slice, so its odds go up. That's how you build a handicap draw, like giving the newest member two slices. And because the odds can't be rigged, everyone can trust the result.

From setup to sharing

No need to start from a blank screen. It's faster to drop in a preset and edit it, and for number draws the Numbers 1–N preset only asks for the last number. Enter one item per line, up to 50 items.

Give your go-to lists a name and save them under My wheels (they're kept in this browser only). To use a wheel with someone else, send the share link or QR code — the item list is encoded right into the link, so whoever opens it gets the exact same wheel.

Spinning in front of a crowd? Press the fullscreen button to enter presentation mode. The editor and cards disappear, leaving just a big wheel — perfect for a projector or TV screen. Press Esc to come back anytime.

Make it a paper spinner

No internet at the venue? Print the A4 template. One sheet holds a wheel with your own items plus the build steps — cut it out, glue it to thick paper, pin a paperclip through the center with a pencil tip, and flick.

The template comes in color or black-and-white (to save toner), and a QR code is printed alongside — scan it to spin the same wheel online. Great for classroom boards and offline event booths.

Little tips

Each item can be up to 40 characters. Long lists of long items make the share code grow, but the capacity meter under the editor warns you well ahead — nothing to worry about.

The ticking sound while the wheel spins can be muted with a button. If your operating system has reduced motion turned on, the result appears right away without the spinning animation — the fairness is exactly the same, of course.