Spin to decide
Paste your options and spin - remove winners as you go, or share the wheel by link.
Runs locally in your browser. Nothing you enter is ever sent to a server.
Your options - one per line
Type your options, press Spin, and the wheel lands on one of them. It replaces the paper-and-hat method for anything from picking a name to deciding what to eat, and the whole thing runs on your own device.
This is worth understanding, because it is the opposite of how these tools are usually assumed to work. The result does not emerge from the spinning - the winner is drawn first from your browser's cryptographic random source, and the wheel is then rotated by exactly the angle needed to land on it. The animation exists to show you the answer, not to produce it.
That order matters for fairness. A wheel that decided the result from simulated physics would inherit whatever bias the physics had, and small errors in a friction model quietly favour some positions over others. Choosing first means every option has exactly the same chance regardless of where it sits on the wheel, how many options there are, or how the last spin ended.
Switch on "Remove winner" and each result drops off the wheel after it is drawn. That is the mode for raffles with several prizes, for picking a running order, or for working through a list where nobody should come up twice. The wheel keeps working right down to the last option, so a list can be drawn out completely rather than stalling with one name left. Leave the toggle off when every spin should be independent, like deciding what to eat.
Copy Link puts the entire list into the URL. Anyone who opens that link gets the same wheel with the same options, without signing up for anything or waiting for a list to sync. It is the simplest way to hand a draw to somebody else - useful when the person running it should not be in it.
The wheel holds up to 200, but readability gives out long before that. Past about thirty entries the labels become slivers, and past about fifty the wheel is decorative rather than informative. The draw stays perfectly fair either way, and the winner is announced in full underneath - but for a long list the team generator or the list randomiser is usually a better fit than a wheel.
Each spin draws a value from your browser's cryptographic random source, discarding anything that would fall outside a clean multiple of the number of options so that no position is favoured. The wheel then turns four to six full rotations plus the exact angle needed to bring the chosen segment under the pointer, with a small random offset inside the segment so the wheel does not always stop at the same point.
Type or paste your options, one per line, then press Spin. The wheel turns and lands on one of them.
Yes, and the order matters here: the winner is chosen first using your browser's cryptographic random source, then the wheel is turned to land on it. The animation shows you the result rather than deciding it.
Yes. Switch on Remove winner and each result drops off the wheel, which is what you want for drawing raffle prizes or picking an order. The list can be drawn all the way down to the last option.
Up to 200. Past about 30 the labels stop being readable on the wheel itself, but the winner is still announced clearly underneath.
Yes. Press Copy Link and the whole list travels in the URL, so whoever opens it sees the same wheel without needing an account.
Yes. Your list is kept on your own device, so it is still there when you come back. Nothing is sent to a server.