Tools · Random
Wheel spinner
Pick a name, a prize, or tonight’s dinner — and set the percentage chance of each one. Give an option a bigger share and its real odds appear beside it, so a 40% slice genuinely wins 40% of the time. Cryptographically random, with raffle mode that removes winners and saved wheels that follow you across devices.
Questions people actually ask
- Is the wheel actually fair?
- Yes, and verifiably: the winner comes from your browser’s cryptographic randomness, one draw decides both the winner and where the wheel visually lands (so the pointer can never disagree with the result), and the fairness panel tracks expected win rates against what actually happened across your spins. No other wheel site shows you that.
- How do I make a wheel where each option has a different percentage chance?
- Change the number beside an entry — that is its share, and the percentage it actually wins is shown right next to it, updating as you type. Two entries at 1 each are 50/50; set one to 3 and it becomes 75% against 25%. Set them to 40 and 60 and you get exactly those percentages. The slice is drawn to match, so the wheel looks like the odds it is really using rather than hiding them behind equal-looking segments.
- Can I set the odds to exact percentages, like 70/30?
- Yes — enter 70 and 30 and the wheel reads 70% and 30%, because the percentages are computed from the shares you type rather than from a fixed list of options. Any set of numbers works: 5 and 15 gives 25% and 75%, and the displayed figure always reflects the true probability the draw uses, not an approximation of it.
- Does the wheel actually respect the percentages, or just look like it?
- It respects them, and it will prove it. The winner is drawn from your browser’s cryptographic randomness against those exact shares, and the fairness panel logs every spin so you can compare the expected percentage against what actually happened. Small samples swing wildly — twenty spins of a 50/50 wheel very often land 13/7 — so the panel shows both numbers rather than pretending short runs should match.
- What is raffle mode?
- With "remove winners" on, each winner is taken off the wheel until you restore them — so a giveaway with ten prizes picks ten different people. The removed names are kept and one click brings them all back.
- Do my wheels save?
- Always, in this browser. Sign in with Google and they sync across devices — build the class list at your desk, spin it in the classroom. Deletable any time from My profile.
- How do teachers use a random name picker?
- Load the class list once, then spin instead of calling on raised hands — random cold-calling spreads participation beyond the confident few, and the wheel makes the randomness visible so it never feels targeted. Raffle mode keeps already-picked students off the wheel until everyone has had a turn, then one click resets the round.
- Can I use it to decide dinner, chores or who goes first?
- That is half of what wheels are spun for. Type the options, spin, argument over — the point of an external random pick is that nobody chose, which is precisely what "where should we eat" negotiations need. Weights let you be honest about preferences: give the favourite a 2 and let fate handle the rest.
- Is this random enough for a real giveaway?
- The draw uses the browser’s cryptographic random source — the same generator TLS keys rely on — not a timer trick, and the fairness panel lets you show entrants that observed win rates track the stated odds. For a public giveaway, spin on a screen share, with raffle mode on so each prize goes to a different winner.