Spin the Wheel

Remove the winner

Enter your options

One option per line, up to 100

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About this random picker wheel

This is a free online wheel spinner: type your entries, spin the wheel and it picks one at random. It works as a random name picker for giveaways and classrooms, as a decision wheel when you cannot choose, and as a yes or no wheel when two options are all you need. Nothing is installed, and your entries never leave your browser — the draw happens on your own device.

How to spin the wheel

Type your entries in the box, one per line — up to 100 of them
Press Spin, or click the centre of the wheel
The pointer stops on the winner and the result shows its real chance
Turn on Remove the winner to draw runner-up, third place and so on
Press Share the wheel to copy a link that carries your list

What people use a random wheel for

Giveaways and raffles — pick a winner from a list of names, then remove them and draw the runner-up
Classrooms — call on a student at random, or split a group into teams
Deciding what to eat — put the restaurants on the wheel and let it choose
Yes or no — two entries, one spin
Games — truth or dare, forfeits, who goes first

How the picker stays fair

Every spin draws the winner from your browser's cryptographic random number generator before the wheel starts moving, using rejection sampling so that no entry is favoured by rounding. The animation is then told where to stop, which means the pointer can never disagree with the result. If an entry appears more than once, its chance goes up accordingly and the result tells you the real figure — three "pizza" lines out of six is a 50% chance, not 16.67%.

Your list and your spin history stay on this device in local storage; clearing your browser data clears them. A shared link carries the entries in the address itself, so the person you send it to opens the same wheel without either of you signing in.

FAQ

Is the wheel spinner actually random?

Yes. Each spin draws the winner from your browser's cryptographic random number generator (crypto.getRandomValues) using rejection sampling, so rounding cannot favour any entry. The winner is decided before the wheel starts moving and the animation is then told where to stop, which is why the pointer can never land somewhere other than the announced result.

What happens if I enter the same option twice?

Its chance goes up, exactly as you would expect, and the result reports the real figure rather than one over the number of sectors. Three "pizza" lines out of six is a 50% chance, not 16.67% — that is how you weight the wheel without a separate weights field.

How do I draw more than one winner?

Switch on Remove the winner. The winning entry leaves the wheel, so the next spin draws the runner-up, then third place, and so on down to the last one standing. Your typed list is untouched: a counter shows how many entries are out and one click puts them all back. It removes the entry rather than the name — if you wrote the same name on three lines to give it triple odds, two of those lines are still in play afterwards.

Can I send my wheel to someone else?

Press Share the wheel and the link goes to your clipboard. The entries travel inside the link itself, so whoever opens it sees the same wheel with no account and no saved copy on our side. If your browser refuses clipboard access the link is still placed in the address bar ready to copy, and a list long enough to overflow a usable URL is refused outright with a message rather than shared broken.

How many options can the wheel hold?

Up to 100, one per line. Blank lines are ignored, so a stray newline at the end of your list will not become an empty sector. From 95 entries on, the sector labels are too small to print, so the winner is shown in the result area instead of on the wheel.

Does the wheel remember my list?

Your entries, your spin history and your sound and giveaway settings are kept in this browser's local storage on this device only. Clearing your browsing data clears them; nothing is uploaded.

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