Spin the Wheel

What this tool does

Spin the Wheel turns a plain list of options into a coloured wheel: each line becomes a slice sized by how often it appears, so repeating an entry gives it a bigger slice and a better chance of winning without any separate weight field. A button spins the wheel through several full turns before settling on a cryptographically random winner, and every past result is logged locally.

Group decisions stall when everyone has a mild preference and nobody wants to be the one who picks. A visible spinning wheel settles it in a way that feels fair and a little bit fun, which is why they show up for everything from choosing a restaurant to picking a raffle winner.

This tool builds the wheel straight from a plain text list: one option per line. Writing the same option on two lines gives it two slices worth of weight, so you can bias the wheel toward a favourite without a separate weight input to learn. The spin itself always lands on a winner chosen with the same cryptographically strong randomness used across every Toolew random tool, then animates the wheel to stop there.

How to use Spin the Wheel

1. Replace the sample list with your own options, one per line, in the text box.
2. Repeat a line to give that option extra weight; three copies of the same text makes it three times as likely to win.
3. Press Spin the wheel and wait for the animation to settle.
4. Read the winner announced below the wheel once it stops.
5. Check Spin history to see every past result from this session, each with a timestamp.
6. Edit the list and spin again as many times as you like; there is no limit to the number of spins.

Tips for better results

• Keep option labels short; long text is truncated on the wheel slice itself, though the full text still appears in the winner announcement.
• A wheel needs at least two distinct options to spin; a single-item list has nowhere to land.
• Use repeated lines sparingly for weighting, since a very lopsided wheel can make the small slices hard to read.
• Clear the spin history between unrelated sessions so the log only reflects the decision you actually care about.

Common use cases

• Picking a restaurant, movie or activity among a group of friends.
• Running a simple raffle or giveaway draw during a livestream or classroom activity.
• Choosing which team member goes first, presents next, or takes on a task nobody has volunteered for.
• Teaching probability and weighted outcomes with a visual, hands-on example.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Assuming the visual spin speed or landing point reveals a pattern; the winner is chosen first and the animation is purely cosmetic.
• Forgetting that duplicate lines are treated as separate weight, not merged, so a typo duplicated by accident silently biases the wheel.
• Using extremely long option lists where every slice becomes too thin to click or read comfortably.