<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>WheelJar</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/</link><description>Recent content on WheelJar</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://wheeljar.com/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>How to Make a Custom Spinner Wheel</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/guides/how-to-make-a-custom-spinner-wheel/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/guides/how-to-make-a-custom-spinner-wheel/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="start-with-the-list-not-the-wheel"&gt;Start with the list, not the wheel&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The wheel is the easy part. Open the &lt;a href="https://wheeljar.com/"&gt;wheel spinner&lt;/a&gt;, clear the demo entries and type your own,
one per line. The wheel redraws as you go, so you can see immediately whether the labels are
readable at the size you are working with.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two rules make the difference between a wheel people use and one they abandon. Keep entries short —
anything past about twenty characters gets squeezed into a thin slice and stops being legible on a
phone. And only include options you will actually accept. A wheel loaded with aspirational choices
gets overruled the first time one comes up, and a wheel that has been overruled once is never
trusted again.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Is a Coin Flip Really 50/50?</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/guides/is-a-coin-flip-really-50-50/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/guides/is-a-coin-flip-really-50-50/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="the-coin-is-fair-the-toss-is-not"&gt;The coin is fair. The toss is not.&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Everyone learns that a coin flip is the definition of an even chance, and for most purposes that is
close enough to true. But it is not exactly true, and the reason is genuinely surprising: the bias
lives in the throw, not in the metal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Persi Diaconis, Susan Holmes and Richard Montgomery worked out the mechanics in a 2007 paper in
&lt;em&gt;SIAM Review&lt;/em&gt;. A coin thrown by a human hand does not tumble neatly end over end. It precesses — the
axis it spins about wanders, describing a cone, in the same way a spinning top leans and circles.
Because of that wobble, the coin spends marginally more of its flight time showing the face that was
up when it left the thumb. Catch it in your hand and that surplus shows up in the result.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fair Ways to Pick a Giveaway Winner</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/guides/fair-ways-to-pick-a-giveaway-winner/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/guides/fair-ways-to-pick-a-giveaway-winner/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="the-generator-is-not-the-problem"&gt;The generator is not the problem&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In practice, nobody argues about the random number. They argue about everything surrounding it: was
my entry in the list, did that person really get five entries, did you draw twice because you did
not like the first name, why did the winner turn out to be your cousin.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All of which means a fair draw is mostly a documentation exercise. The tool takes half a second; the
credibility comes from what you did before and after.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>How Random Is Random?</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/guides/how-random-is-random/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/guides/how-random-is-random/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="two-different-jobs-called-random"&gt;Two different jobs called &amp;ldquo;random&amp;rdquo;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Software has two kinds of random number generator, and they are built for opposite purposes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;PRNG&lt;/strong&gt; — pseudo-random number generator — is an algorithm that turns a small internal state into
a long sequence of well-spread numbers. It is deterministic: the same starting state always gives the
same sequence. That is a feature for games and simulations, where you often want to reproduce a run
exactly, and it makes the generator very fast. &lt;code&gt;Math.random&lt;/code&gt; is one of these.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Secret Santa Rules That Actually Work</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/guides/secret-santa-rules-that-actually-work/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/guides/secret-santa-rules-that-actually-work/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="settle-the-budget-before-anything-else"&gt;Settle the budget before anything else&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The draw is trivial. The budget is where Secret Santa lives or dies, and it fails in a predictable
way: somebody proposes &amp;ldquo;about ten to twenty&amp;rdquo;, half the group hears ten and the other half hears
twenty, and on the day one person unwraps a keyring while the next unwraps a bottle of something
proper. Nobody did anything wrong and everyone feels awkward.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;State one number. Not a range, not a guideline, not &amp;ldquo;whatever you like&amp;rdquo;. One number, in one message,
before names are drawn — because once people know who they are buying for, the budget conversation
becomes personal.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Wheel Odds Chart</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/guides/wheel-odds-chart/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/guides/wheel-odds-chart/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Every figure on this page is generated at build time from the same arithmetic the wheel runs: a
uniform draw over equal slices, with the winner left on the wheel unless you switch that off.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="table-scroll"&gt;
 &lt;table&gt;
 &lt;caption&gt;Odds for a wheel with equal slices, worked out from the uniform draw the spinner performs. „Spins to give everyone a turn" is the average number of spins before every option has won at least once, with the winner left on the wheel.&lt;/caption&gt;
 &lt;thead&gt;
 &lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="col"&gt;Options&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;th scope="col"&gt;Slice&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;th scope="col"&gt;Chance per spin&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;th scope="col"&gt;Same winner twice in a row&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;th scope="col"&gt;A repeat within 5 spins&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;th scope="col"&gt;Spins to give everyone a turn&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;/thead&gt;
 &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="row"&gt;2&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;180.0&amp;deg;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;50.00%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;25.00%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;100.0%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="row"&gt;3&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;120.0&amp;deg;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;33.33%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;11.11%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;100.0%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="row"&gt;4&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;90.0&amp;deg;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;25.00%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;6.25%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;100.0%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="row"&gt;5&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;72.0&amp;deg;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;20.00%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;4.00%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;96.2%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="row"&gt;6&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;60.0&amp;deg;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;16.67%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;2.78%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;90.7%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="row"&gt;8&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;45.0&amp;deg;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;12.50%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;1.56%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;79.5%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;22&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="row"&gt;10&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;36.0&amp;deg;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;10.00%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;1.00%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;69.8%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;29&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="row"&gt;12&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;30.0&amp;deg;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;8.33%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;0.69%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;61.8%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;37&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="row"&gt;15&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;24.0&amp;deg;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;6.67%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;0.44%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;52.5%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;50&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="row"&gt;20&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;18.0&amp;deg;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;5.00%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;0.25%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;41.9%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;72&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="row"&gt;25&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;14.4&amp;deg;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;4.00%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;0.16%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;34.7%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;95&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="row"&gt;30&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;12.0&amp;deg;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;3.33%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;0.11%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;29.6%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;120&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="row"&gt;40&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;9.0&amp;deg;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;2.50%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;0.06%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;22.9%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;171&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
 &lt;th scope="row"&gt;50&lt;/th&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;7.2&amp;deg;&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;2.00%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;0.04%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;18.6%&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;td&gt;225&lt;/td&gt;
 &lt;/tr&gt;
 &lt;/tbody&gt;
 &lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;h2 id="why-does-a-wheel-need-more-spins-than-it-has-names"&gt;Why does a wheel need more spins than it has names?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Because the wheel has no memory. Once eight of your ten names have won, the next spin still gives
each of the ten a 10% chance, so the two names left need on average five spins each to appear —
and the last one alone accounts for ten. Adding that up across every stage is the &lt;em&gt;coupon
collector&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/em&gt; sum, n multiplied by 1 + ½ + ⅓ + … + 1/n, and it grows faster than the list does.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Refunds and withdrawal</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/refunds/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/refunds/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Last updated 2026-08-11.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-short-version"&gt;The short version&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You have &lt;strong&gt;14 days&lt;/strong&gt; from buying Pro to change your mind and get your money back.
Press &lt;strong&gt;Withdraw from contract&lt;/strong&gt; on your &lt;a href="https://wheeljar.com/account/"&gt;account page&lt;/a&gt;. We confirm by
email straight away and the refund goes back to the payment method you used,
within 14 days of that email.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You do not need a reason, and we do not ask you to give one up.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="your-right-of-withdrawal"&gt;Your right of withdrawal&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are a consumer in the EU, you have a statutory right to withdraw from this
contract within 14 days without giving any reason. The period ends 14 days after
the day the contract was concluded — that is, 14 days after you bought Pro.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Terms of use</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/terms/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/terms/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Last updated 2026-08-11.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These terms cover wheeljar.com (&amp;ldquo;the site&amp;rdquo;). Using the site means you accept them.
If you buy Pro, the Pro section below is part of your contract.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="who-you-are-dealing-with"&gt;Who you are dealing with&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Operated by:&lt;/strong&gt; maicrosites.com&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Established in:&lt;/strong&gt; Slovakia, European Union&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Email:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="mailto:info@wheeljar.com"&gt;info@wheeljar.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Site:&lt;/strong&gt; wheeljar.com&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="1-what-the-site-is"&gt;1. What the site is&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WheelJar is a set of calculators and reference pages. Everything that calculates runs in your browser and is free to use, with no account.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Free and Pro</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/pricing/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/pricing/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Everything that calculates here is free and always will be — no account, no
sign-up, no limits on how often you use it. That is not a trial. Search engines
send people here to get an answer, and an answer behind a wall is not an answer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pro is for what happens around the answer.&lt;/strong&gt; It remembers your setups on every
device you sign in on, turns any result into a page you can send someone,
lets you put a tool on your own site, emails you when a date you care about is
coming, and takes the ads off every site we run — with one account and one price.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What to Watch Wheel</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/what-to-watch-wheel/</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/what-to-watch-wheel/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;How many slices to use depends on how much of the evening you are prepared to spend deciding.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Slices&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Chance each&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Best for&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;50%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;The last two contenders, settled&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;25%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;One per person, everyone represented&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;16.7%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;The genres this household actually watches&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;The default: a real spread, including things you would not have picked&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;15+&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;under 7%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;A month of film nights with remove-winner on&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The four-slice version is worth a mention on its own. Have everybody add one genre, then spin:
every person is represented, nobody has to argue out loud for the thing they want, and the result
has a mandate from nobody at all — which turns out to be the most acceptable mandate available.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Bingo Number Generator and Caller</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/bingo-number-generator/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/bingo-number-generator/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="the-three-formats-side-by-side"&gt;The three formats, side by side&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Format&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Numbers&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Card&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Letters called&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Typical game&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;American&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1–75&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5×5 with a free centre&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;B I N G O&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Line in 15–25 calls&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;British&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1–90&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;9×3 ticket, 15 numbers&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;none&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Three stages: line, two lines, house&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Classroom&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1–30&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;whatever you hand out&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;none&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;A few minutes&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h2 id="odds-change-with-every-call"&gt;Odds change with every call&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Numbers still in the drum&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Chance the next call is a given one&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;75&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1.3%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;50&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2.0%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;25&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4.0%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10.0%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;33.3%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That is drawing without replacement in one column: nothing about the mechanism changes, only how
much is left in it.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Card Dealer: Deal Hands to Every Player</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/card-dealer/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/card-dealer/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="what-one-deck-will-stretch-to"&gt;What one deck will stretch to&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Game&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Players&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Cards each&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Cards used&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Left in the stock&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Draw poker&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;25&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;27&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Rummy&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;28&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;24&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Go fish&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;20&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;32&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Bridge&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;13&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;52&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Blackjack, opening&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;40&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Crazy eights&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;21&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;31&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bridge is the only common game that uses the deck exactly — which is why it is the one that never
needs a stock pile.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Dice Bag: Roll a Mixed Handful at Once</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/dice-bag/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/dice-bag/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="what-each-common-handful-actually-gives-you"&gt;What each common handful actually gives you&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;In the bag&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Range&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Average&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Shape&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1d6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1–6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3.5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Flat — every face 16.7%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2d6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2–12&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Peaked — 7 is 16.7%, 12 is 2.8%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3d6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3–18&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10.5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Strongly peaked — 10 and 11 are 12.5% each&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1d12&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1–12&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6.5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Flat — every face 8.3%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1d20&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1–20&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10.5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Flat — the swingiest common die&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4d6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4–24&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;14&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Peaked — the classic ability-score roll&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Same averages, very different games. 3d6 lands between 8 and 13 about two thirds of the time; a d20
does whatever it likes.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Random Pair Generator</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/random-pair-generator/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/random-pair-generator/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="how-many-different-pairings-there-are"&gt;How many different pairings there are&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;People&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Pairs&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Possible pairings&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;105&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;945&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10,395&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;16&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2,027,025&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The number climbs fast, which is why repeats feel surprising in a small group and never happen in a
large one. With six people, one pairing in fifteen is the one you just had.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="where-pairs-beat-teams"&gt;Where pairs beat teams&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Situation&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Why twos&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Language practice&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Everyone speaks half the time; in a four, one person carries it&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Code review&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Two people can hold one problem in their heads&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Secret Santa&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;One giver, one receiver — a chain, not a group&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Interview practice&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;One asks, one answers, then swap&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Chess or cards&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;The game itself needs exactly two&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-related-tools"&gt;The related tools&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To split into more than two groups, the &lt;a href="https://wheeljar.com/team-generator/"&gt;team generator&lt;/a&gt; deals a list into any
number of sides. For gift-giving specifically, the
&lt;a href="https://wheeljar.com/secret-santa-generator/"&gt;secret santa generator&lt;/a&gt; draws a single closed circle so nobody gets
themselves. To put a list in a random order without grouping it at all, use the
&lt;a href="https://wheeljar.com/list-randomizer/"&gt;list randomizer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Random Password Generator</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/random-password-generator/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/random-password-generator/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="what-each-length-is-worth"&gt;What each length is worth&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Letters and digits only, 62 possible characters per position:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Length&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Entropy&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Possible passwords&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;48 bits&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2.2 × 10¹⁴&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;71 bits&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3.2 × 10²¹&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;16&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;95 bits&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4.8 × 10²⁸&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;20&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;119 bits&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;7.0 × 10³⁵&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;24&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;143 bits&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1.0 × 10⁴³&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Each step of four characters multiplies the attacker&amp;rsquo;s work by about sixteen million. Nothing else
you can do to a password comes close to that.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Random Task Assigner: Who Does What</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/random-task-assigner/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/random-task-assigner/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="how-the-load-comes-out"&gt;How the load comes out&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;People&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Jobs&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Split&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;one each&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2 · 2 · 1&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2 · 2 · 1 · 1&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3 · 3 · 2 · 2&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;one each, one person off&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4 · 3&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The gap between the busiest and the quietest person is never more than one job. That is the
difference between dealing in rotation and picking a name for each job.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Round Robin Generator: Everyone Plays Everyone</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/round-robin-generator/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/round-robin-generator/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="what-the-size-of-your-league-costs-you"&gt;What the size of your league costs you&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Teams&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Rounds&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Games (single)&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Games (home and away)&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Byes&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;none&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;20&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;one per team&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;30&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;none&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;28&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;56&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;none&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;45&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;90&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;none&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;66&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;132&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;none&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An odd number of teams costs you a round and gives everyone a night off. Adding one more team to
make it even is usually easier than explaining byes.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Weighted Random Picker</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/weighted-random-picker/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/weighted-random-picker/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="what-the-weights-come-out-as"&gt;What the weights come out as&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Four options, weighted 3 : 2 : 1 : 1, give seven tickets in total:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Option&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Written as&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Tickets&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Chance&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Pizza&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;&lt;code&gt;Pizza x3&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;42.9%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Curry&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;&lt;code&gt;Curry x2&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;28.6%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Sushi&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;&lt;code&gt;Sushi&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;14.3%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Cook at home&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;&lt;code&gt;Cook at home&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;14.3%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Change one weight and every other percentage moves, because they share a total. That is worth
watching once: raising pizza from 3 to 6 does not take from curry alone, it takes from all three.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Classroom Picker</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/pro-draws/classroom-picker/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/pro-draws/classroom-picker/</guid><description>Draws a name and takes it out of the pool, so everybody comes up once before anyone comes up twice.</description></item><item><title>Draw Order Generator</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/pro-draws/draw-order-generator/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/pro-draws/draw-order-generator/</guid><description>Turn a list into a random running order — presentation slots, tournament seeds, chore rotations — with the whole order drawn at once.</description></item><item><title>Prize Ladder Draw</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/pro-draws/prize-ladder-draw/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/pro-draws/prize-ladder-draw/</guid><description>Draw several winners in one go, in order, from a single seed — first place, runner-up, and as many places as you need.</description></item><item><title>Provably Fair Giveaway Draw</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/pro-draws/provably-fair-giveaway/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/pro-draws/provably-fair-giveaway/</guid><description>Publish a fingerprint of the entry list before the draw, reveal the seed after, and anyone can verify the winner was not chosen afterwards.</description></item><item><title>Team Generator</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/pro-draws/team-generator/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/pro-draws/team-generator/</guid><description>Shuffle a list of names and deal them into any number of teams, with sizes as even as the numbers allow.</description></item><item><title>Weighted Wheel</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/pro-draws/weighted-wheel/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/pro-draws/weighted-wheel/</guid><description>Give entries different odds — extra raffle tickets, seniority, a handicap — and draw with those weights respected exactly.</description></item><item><title>About</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/about/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/about/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;WheelJar is a free set of random-decision tools built as a small independent project. Wheels, coin
flips, dice, number and word generators, team makers and Secret Santa draws — thirty-one tools that all
answer the same question in different shapes: &lt;em&gt;which one?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Every tool runs entirely in your browser. There is no account, no saved history and no server doing
the drawing on your behalf. Randomness comes from &lt;code&gt;crypto.getRandomValues&lt;/code&gt;, the generator browsers
use for encryption keys, with rejection sampling to keep every outcome equally likely and
Fisher–Yates for anything that shuffles. The full write-up is on the
&lt;a href="https://wheeljar.com/methodology/"&gt;methodology page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Coin Flip</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/coin-flip/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/coin-flip/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Runs are the part everyone misreads. These are the odds of a specific sequence of consecutive
identical results on a fair coin — and they are much less rare than they feel.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Result&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Probability&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Roughly&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2 in a row&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;25%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1 in 4&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3 in a row&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;12.5%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1 in 8&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5 in a row&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3.125%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1 in 32&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;8 in a row&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;0.39%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1 in 256&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10 heads from 10 coins&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;0.098%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1 in 1,024&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Flip a hundred times and a run of five is close to expected, a run of seven is unremarkable, and
the absence of any long run would be the genuinely suspicious outcome. Whatever has just happened,
the next flip is 50/50.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Contact</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/contact/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/contact/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Questions, suggestions or corrections? Email us:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:info@wheeljar.com"&gt;info@wheeljar.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We usually reply within a few working days.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are reporting something that went wrong with a tool, it helps enormously to include the page
address — it carries your entries, so it reproduces the exact wheel, list or range you were using —
along with your browser and what you expected to happen instead.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;!-- FACTORY:TRADER --&gt;
&lt;h2 id="who-you-are-writing-to"&gt;Who you are writing to&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Operated by:&lt;/strong&gt; maicrosites.com&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Established in:&lt;/strong&gt; Slovakia, European Union&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Email:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="mailto:info@wheeljar.com"&gt;info@wheeljar.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Site:&lt;/strong&gt; wheeljar.com&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One person reads this address, so please put what you need in the first message
rather than asking whether you may ask. Replies come within a few working days;
complaints get an answer within 14 days, and how a complaint escalates if we
cannot settle it is set out in the &lt;a href="https://wheeljar.com/terms/"&gt;terms of use&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>D20 Roller</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/d20-roller/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/d20-roller/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The same target number, rolled three ways. This is what advantage is worth in the only currency
that matters at the table — the chance of actually succeeding.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Need to roll&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Normal&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Advantage&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Disadvantage&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5 or higher&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;80%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;96%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;64%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10 or higher&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;55%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;79.8%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;30.3%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;11 or higher&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;50%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;75%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;25%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;15 or higher&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;30%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;51%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;9%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;20 exactly&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;9.75%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;0.25%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Average roll&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10.5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;13.82&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;7.18&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The swing peaks in the middle, at 25 percentage points on an even-odds check, and shrinks at both
ends. That is the whole shape of the mechanic: it rescues you from uncertainty, not from
impossibility.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Dice Roller</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/dice-roller/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/dice-roller/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Two six-sided dice have 36 equally likely combinations, which is why the totals are anything but
even. This is the table that decides where the houses go in Monopoly and why craps has the rules it
has.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Total&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Combinations&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Chance&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2 or 12&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2.8%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3 or 11&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5.6%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4 or 10&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;8.3%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5 or 9&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;11.1%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6 or 8&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;13.9%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;16.7%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A single die is flat — 16.7% per face on a d6, 5% on a d20, 1% on a d100. Add dice together and the
distribution piles up in the middle; that is the difference between a game that swings wildly and
one that mostly behaves.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>How the Randomness Works</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/methodology/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/methodology/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Every tool on this site is built on the same four decisions: a cryptographically secure source, a
bias-free way of fitting that source to a range, a provably uniform shuffle, and a Secret Santa draw
that cannot produce a self-match. Nothing runs on a server.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-source-cryptogetrandomvalues"&gt;The source: crypto.getRandomValues&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All randomness here comes from &lt;code&gt;crypto.getRandomValues&lt;/code&gt;, the Web Cryptography API&amp;rsquo;s
cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator, seeded by your operating system. It is the
same generator browsers use for encryption keys and password generation.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>List Randomizer</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/list-randomizer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/list-randomizer/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The number of possible orderings grows faster than almost anything else in everyday arithmetic,
which is why a shuffled list of any real length is effectively unique.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Items&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Possible orderings&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;120&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;720&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;40,320&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3,628,800&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;over 1.3 trillion&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fisher–Yates picks one of those evenly, in a single pass, however long the list is.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Three jobs that look similar and are not: a running order for everyone is this page, one winner from
many is the &lt;a href="https://wheeljar.com/random-name-picker/"&gt;random name picker&lt;/a&gt;, and an even split into groups is the
&lt;a href="https://wheeljar.com/team-generator/"&gt;team generator&lt;/a&gt;. For the reasoning behind all three, see
&lt;a href="https://wheeljar.com/guides/how-random-is-random/"&gt;how random is random&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Lottery Number Generator</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/lottery-number-generator/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/lottery-number-generator/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The jackpot odds for a format are simply the number of possible lines, and they climb steeply with
the size of the pool. Set the generator to match whichever shape you play — and check the current
rules with your operator, because formats are changed more often than people notice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Format&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Possible lines&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Jackpot odds&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6 from 49&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;13,983,816&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1 in 14.0 million&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6 from 59&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;45,057,474&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1 in 45.1 million&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5 from 50 plus 2 from 12&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;139,838,160&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1 in 139.8 million&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5 from 69 plus 1 from 26&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;292,201,338&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1 in 292.2 million&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ten more balls in the main pool roughly triples the number of combinations. That is the whole reason
jackpots in bigger formats roll over for months — not luck, arithmetic.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Privacy Policy</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/privacy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/privacy/</guid><description>&lt;!-- FACTORY:CONTROLLER --&gt;
&lt;h2 id="who-is-responsible-for-your-data"&gt;Who is responsible for your data&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Operated by:&lt;/strong&gt; maicrosites.com&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Established in:&lt;/strong&gt; Slovakia, European Union&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Email:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="mailto:info@wheeljar.com"&gt;info@wheeljar.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Site:&lt;/strong&gt; wheeljar.com&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is no data protection officer. The site is run by one person and meets none
of the conditions in Article 37 GDPR that would require one, so the address above
reaches the person who actually decides what happens to your data — not a queue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;!-- /FACTORY:CONTROLLER --&gt;
&lt;h2 id="what-we-process"&gt;What we process&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The tools run entirely in your browser — &lt;strong&gt;your entries are never sent anywhere&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Random Card</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/random-card/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/random-card/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;What you are actually likely to draw, from a full 52-card deck on a single card:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Draw&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Cards that qualify&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Chance&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;One specific card&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1.92%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Any ace&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;7.7%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Any face card (J, Q, K)&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;23.1%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;A given suit&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;13&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;25%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Red or black&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;26&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;50%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Ten or higher&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;20&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;38.5%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Add jokers and every figure in that column falls slightly, because the favourable cards are now
spread across 54. Draw more than one card and the odds shift after each one, since the deck is
shrinking — the second card is drawn from 51, not 52.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Random Letter Generator</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/random-letter-generator/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/random-letter-generator/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Three sets, three sets of odds. The one you want depends on whether you need a letter or a sound.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Set&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Letters in pool&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Chance each&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Good for&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;A–Z&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;26&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3.85%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Category games, naming exercises&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Vowels&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;20%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Phonics drills, word-building puzzles&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Consonants&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;21&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4.76%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Starting sounds, alliteration games&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Drawing several letters at once is an independent draw each time, so repeats happen — ask for five
from the full alphabet and you will see a duplicate more often than not across a few rounds. If you
need five different letters, draw them one at a time and skip the ones you already have.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Random Name Picker</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/random-name-picker/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/random-name-picker/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The odds are pure arithmetic, and they move as the wheel empties. With remove-winner on, a name
that survives the first spin is not unlucky — it is getting steadily more likely.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Names left on the wheel&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Slice width&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Chance per spin&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;30&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;12°&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3.3%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;20&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;18°&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;36°&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;72°&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;20%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;120°&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;33.3%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;180°&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;50%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyone still on a wheel of three has a one-in-three shot, which is worth saying out loud before the
last spin. It also explains why a rotation feels tense at the end and dull at the start.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Random Number Generator</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/random-number-generator/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/random-number-generator/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The settings that matter are the two checkboxes, and they change what the draw means rather than how
it looks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Range&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Count&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Unique&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;What you get&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1–2&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;—&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;A coin flip with extra steps&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1–6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;—&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;A six-sided die&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1–100&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;—&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;The default: a single pick, repeats possible&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1–500&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;—&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;A giveaway draw by entry number&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1–50&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;on&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Five different entries, no repeats&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1–49&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;on + sorted&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;A lottery line, tidily ordered&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That last row is a lottery quick pick built by hand — the &lt;a href="https://wheeljar.com/lottery-number-generator/"&gt;lottery number
generator&lt;/a&gt; does the same job with bonus balls and a format picker
attached. For die-shaped ranges the &lt;a href="https://wheeljar.com/dice-roller/"&gt;dice roller&lt;/a&gt; is faster, and for a list of names
rather than numbers, the &lt;a href="https://wheeljar.com/random-name-picker/"&gt;random name picker&lt;/a&gt; skips the numbering step
entirely.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Random Team Generator</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/team-generator/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/team-generator/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Round-robin dealing means the split is decided by arithmetic, not by luck. These are the sizes you
get for the awkward headcounts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;People&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;2 teams&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;3 teams&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;4 teams&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5, 5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4, 3, 3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3, 3, 2, 2&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6, 5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4, 4, 3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3, 3, 3, 2&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6, 6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4, 4, 4&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3, 3, 3, 3&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;13&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;7, 6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5, 4, 4&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4, 3, 3, 3&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;8, 7&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5, 5, 5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;4, 4, 4, 3&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Which team gets the extra person is itself random, because the deal order follows the shuffle. That
matters more than it sounds in a PE lesson, where being on the seven rather than the eight is the
sort of thing that gets noticed.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Random Word Generator</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/random-word-generator/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/random-word-generator/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Pick the filter to match the job, not the mood. The wrong part of speech is the usual reason a
prompt lands flat.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Setting&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Best for&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Why&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1 noun&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Pictionary, hangman, spelling&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Concrete and drawable&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;1 verb&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Charades, improv warm-ups&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;An action beats an object to mime&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3 any&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Writing prompts, brainstorming&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Forced connections between unrelated things&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3 adjectives&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Character and tone exercises&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Qualities without a subject attached&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5 any&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Story-building games&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Enough constraint to be difficult&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two words is usually too easy and five is where a prompt starts feeling like homework. Three is the
default for a reason: it is the smallest number that reliably produces a combination nobody at the
table would have chosen.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Rock Paper Scissors</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/rock-paper-scissors/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/rock-paper-scissors/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Nine pairings, resolved the same way they have been resolved in playgrounds for a century.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;You throw&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Browser rock&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Browser paper&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Browser scissors&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Rock&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Draw&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Loss&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Win&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Paper&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Win&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Draw&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Loss&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Scissors&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Loss&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Win&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Draw&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Three of the nine cells are draws, three are wins and three are losses, which is where the flat
33.3% each comes from. It holds for any strategy: throw rock every round for an hour and your
results will converge on the same thirds as throwing at random, because your opponent is not paying
attention.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Secret Santa Generator</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/secret-santa-generator/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/secret-santa-generator/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Two ways to draw the same names, with very different failure rates. The left column is the hat; the
right column is what this page does.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Random pairing&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Single-cycle chain&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Self-matches possible&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Yes&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;No&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Chance nobody draws themselves&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;about 36.8%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;100%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Redraws needed&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;roughly 2 in 3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;never&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Mutual pairs (A buys for B, B for A)&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;possible&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;never&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Everyone gives and receives once&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;yes&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;yes&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That 36.8% is one of the more pleasing constants in everyday probability: it converges on 1 divided
by e and stops moving almost immediately, so a group of eight and a group of eighty fail at very
nearly the same rate. Building the chain instead of testing the pairs sidesteps the problem
completely.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>What to Eat Wheel</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/what-to-eat-wheel/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/what-to-eat-wheel/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sizing the wheel is the only real decision. Fewer slices means a faster, more decisive result;
more slices means a genuine survey of the options and a longer wait for consensus on the list.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Options on the wheel&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Chance each&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Best for&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;33.3%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Two people who have already narrowed it down&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;20%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;The regular takeaway rotation&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;12.5%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;A household list covering cooking and delivery&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;10%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;The default: broad cuisines, no repeats&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;15+&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;under 7%&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Weekly meal planning with remove-winner on&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A quick trick for groups: have everyone add one line each, then spin. Every person is represented,
nobody has to advocate out loud for the thing they actually want, and the result carries a majority
of nothing at all — which turns out to be the most acceptable mandate of the lot.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Yes or No Wheel</title><link>https://wheeljar.com/yes-no-wheel/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wheeljar.com/yes-no-wheel/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Every line you type is one equal slice, so the odds are just a counting exercise. Edit the box and
the wheel re-cuts itself immediately.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table&gt;
	&lt;thead&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;What you type&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Slices&lt;/th&gt;
					&lt;th&gt;Chance of Yes&lt;/th&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/thead&gt;
	&lt;tbody&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Yes, No&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;50%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Yes ×3, No ×3 (default)&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;50%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Yes ×2, No&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;66.7%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Yes, No ×2&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;33.3%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Yes, No, Maybe&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;33.3%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
			&lt;tr&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;Yes ×3, No ×3, Maybe&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;
					&lt;td&gt;42.9%&lt;/td&gt;
			&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two things worth deciding before you spin rather than after. Say out loud what each answer commits
you to, because &lt;em&gt;Yes&lt;/em&gt; meaning two different things is how a wheel gets blamed for a bad evening.
And spin once. Best of three is a way of asking until you get the answer you wanted, and the wheel
will happily give it to you eventually.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>