Free spinner wheels for quick decisions - spin, pick, decide.
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Add your options — type them, or paste a whole list.
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Get a winner · spin again, remove it, or keep score.
Spinner Wheel is a free online random picker. Type in your options, give the wheel a spin, and let it settle on one of them. There is no sign-up, no download, and no limit on how many times you spin. It works the same on a phone, a tablet, a laptop, or a classroom projector.
The wheel is deliberately plain about what it does. Every option you add becomes a coloured segment, every segment gets its fair share of the wheel unless you weight it, and the segment that stops under the pointer is the one that was picked. Nothing is decided before you spin, and nothing is decided after the wheel stops.
Everything happens inside your browser. Your options, your question, your settings, and your recent results are stored on your own device using local storage, so they are still there when you come back tomorrow. They are never uploaded to a server, and we could not read them if we wanted to.
A random picker is most useful when a decision is either too small to be worth arguing about or too close to call. Here are the situations people reach for this wheel for most often.
The most common use, and the one that ends the longest arguments. Add the five restaurants you keep cycling through, or the seven dinners you actually know how to cook, and spin. It is quicker than another round of "I do not mind, what do you want?" and nobody has to be the one who chose.
Put your class list on the wheel and spin to choose who answers next. Turn on Remove after spin and each name drops off once it is picked, so the wheel works through the whole class before anyone repeats. Students can see it is not the teacher choosing, which takes the sting out of being called on.
Paste the list of entrants, put the wheel on the screen, and spin live. Because the wheel visibly slows into its result rather than jumping to it, everyone watching can see the draw happen. Remove after spin lets you pull first, second, and third place in sequence without anyone winning twice.
Load the jobs nobody volunteers for, load the names, and spin. Weighted mode is useful here: if one person did the washing up three nights running, drop their weight to x1 and raise everyone else, and the odds shift without you having to make it a conversation.
Game night stalls when six people have six opinions. Add every candidate to the wheel, agree in advance that the wheel decides, and spin once. Book clubs use the same trick for the next month’s pick, and the shortlist you did not choose is still sitting there for next time.
Fill the wheel with exercises, scales, vocabulary topics, or drills, then spin between sets or rounds. It stops you defaulting to the things you are already good at, which is usually the whole point of practising.
Spin to pick who speaks first, who demos, or who picks the retro topic. On a new team, load a list of icebreaker questions instead of names and spin one per person. The randomness does the awkward part for you.
Load settings, characters, first lines, or colour palettes and spin for a constraint to work inside. A constraint you did not pick is more useful than one you did, because you cannot quietly choose the easy option.
When a decision is genuinely 50/50 and the discussion has stopped producing new information, the cost of deciding is now higher than the cost of being slightly wrong. A wheel is a fast, visibly neutral way to close it. If the result makes you want to spin again, that is useful information too: you had a preference after all.
Add options one at a time, or use Paste list to drop in a whole set at once, either comma separated or one per line. There is no fixed cap. Very long labels are shortened on the wheel itself so the text stays readable, but the full text is always shown in the option list and in the result.
Turn this on and each winner is taken off the wheel once it is picked, so the wheel works through every option before anything repeats. This is what you want for turn-taking, prize draws, and anything where "everyone gets one" matters. Put an option back at any time from the result panel.
Leave every option on the wheel and count how often each one wins across a session. The results panel switches between the running order of spins and a tally by option, which is handy for best-of rounds, tournaments, and games where you spin many times.
Each option carries a weight from x1 to x5. An option at x3 takes three times as much of the wheel as one at x1, so it is three times as likely to win. Use it when the choices are not meant to be equal, and leave everything at x1 when they are.
Name what you are deciding. The question sits above the wheel, gets saved with your options, and appears when you share or copy a result, so a screenshot of the outcome still makes sense a week later.
Expand the wheel to fill the screen for a projector, a shared monitor, or a room watching a draw. The wheel, the question, and the spin control stay; everything else gets out of the way.
Options, weights, settings, question, and recent results are saved to this browser. Close the tab, come back next week, and your class list or your dinner shortlist is still loaded. Reset clears the current session when you want a clean start.
The winner is chosen first, in code, using your browser’s built-in random number generator. The wheel is then rotated so that the chosen segment comes to rest under the pointer. The animation is there to show you the result, not to produce it, which is why the wheel always lands cleanly on a segment rather than on a boundary.
The wheel has no memory of previous spins. If the same option wins four times in a row, its chance on the fifth spin is exactly what it was on the first. Streaks look meaningful and are not; with six options, a repeat happens roughly one spin in six no matter how surprising it feels. If you want each option to come up once, use Remove after spin rather than waiting for it to even out.
Weight changes how much of the wheel an option occupies, and therefore its probability. With three options at x1, x1, and x3, the shares are one fifth, one fifth, and three fifths. Nothing else about the draw changes: it is still a single random pick, just from an unevenly divided wheel.
This is a browser toy for everyday choices, not a certified randomness source. It is not suitable for gambling, for regulated prize draws with a legal audit requirement, or for anything where a losing entrant might reasonably demand proof of fairness. For those, use a service that provides an auditable draw record.
Yes. Each spin picks a winner using your browser’s built-in random number generator, then rotates the wheel so that the winning segment lands under the pointer. The result is not influenced by where the wheel stopped last time, how long you held the button, or which option you added first.
Use Add option to type entries one at a time, or Paste list to add many at once. Pasted text can be comma separated or one entry per line, so you can copy a list straight out of a spreadsheet, a document, or a notes app.
There is no fixed limit. In practice, up to about a dozen options stays comfortably readable on a phone screen. Longer labels are shortened on the wheel so the text does not overlap, and the complete text always remains visible in the option list and in the result.
A weight sets how much of the wheel an option takes up, and therefore how likely it is to win. An option at x4 is four times as likely to be picked as one at x1. Leave every option at x1 for an equal chance each.
Turn on Remove after spin. Each winner is taken off the wheel as soon as it is picked, so the wheel works through every option before any of them repeats. You can put an option back on the wheel at any point from the result panel.
Yes. Turn on Keep score and every option stays on the wheel while the results panel tallies how many times each one has won. Switch the panel between the order the spins happened in and the totals by option.
Yes. Your options, weights, settings, question, and recent results are saved in this browser’s local storage, so they are still there after a refresh or when you return days later. Reset clears the current session when you want to start clean.
No account, and no cost. The wheel is free to use as often as you like, and there is nothing to install. The site is supported by advertising rather than by subscriptions.
No. Every spin runs in your browser, and your options are stored only on your own device. Nothing you type into the wheel is sent to us, so we have no way to read a class list, a shortlist, or anything else you enter.
The wheel is built for touch and works on phones and tablets as well as on a desktop. Once a page has loaded, spinning does not need a connection, though you will need to be online the first time you open the site or after clearing your browser data.
Yes. Fullscreen mode expands the wheel to fill the display and hides the surrounding controls, which makes the segments and the result readable from the back of a room.