๐Ÿ•What should you eat tonight?

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What should I eat?

Every slice is the same size

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Press SPIN to draw a winner

Seven dinners, drawn

Weekly

Seven dinners for the week ahead, spun fresh every Friday. Deciding what to eat is the tiring part, not cooking it.

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How do you decide what to eat without arguing about it?

Write down the meals you would genuinely be happy to eat, then hand the choice to a wheel that has no opinion. Ten items on the wheel is a 10% chance each; the wheel picks one at random from your browser’s cryptographic generator and the argument ends there, because nobody chose it and so nobody has to defend it.

The default list is deliberately generic. The version that works is the one you edit down to the five or six places that actually deliver to your address at nine on a Tuesday โ€” a wheel offering ramen you cannot get is a wheel that gets overruled, and once it has been overruled once it never gets used again.

Two options are worth setting up properly. Put a favourite on two lines if it deserves double the chance. Tick remove winner and spin repeatedly to build a whole week’s menu without repeats, which is roughly the entire meal-planning industry compressed into one checkbox.

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.

Options on the wheelChance eachBest for
333.3%Two people who have already narrowed it down
520%The regular takeaway rotation
812.5%A household list covering cooking and delivery
1010%The default: broad cuisines, no repeats
15+under 7%Weekly meal planning with remove-winner on

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 โ€” which turns out to be the most acceptable mandate of the lot.

For a straight two-way call between the last two contenders, the yes or no wheel or a coin flip finishes it faster.

Frequently asked questions

What should go on the wheel?

Only things you would eat tonight without complaint. The most common mistake is loading it with aspirational options โ€” the salad nobody wants, the restaurant that closed โ€” which produces results that get vetoed and a wheel nobody trusts. Six real choices beat twenty theoretical ones, and a shorter wheel is also far easier to read on a phone.

Can I put restaurants on it instead of dishes?

That is usually the better list, because a restaurant name answers the ordering question as well as the craving question. Paste the eight places within delivery range, spin, and you are done. Some people keep two bookmarked wheels โ€” one of cuisines for cooking at home, one of takeaway names for when nobody is cooking at all.

How do I make one option more likely?

Give it more lines. Pizza on two lines of eleven is 18.2% rather than 9.1%. This is also the honest way to run a household wheel where one person genuinely eats more of something: the weighting is on screen, in slices anyone can count, rather than hidden in a setting somebody could have quietly changed.

Can I plan a whole week with it?

Tick remove winner and spin seven times. Each winner leaves the wheel, so you get seven different meals rather than pasta four nights running. Start with ten to twelve options so the last spins still have something to choose between โ€” a two-slice wheel on Sunday is not much of a decision.

Will it save my list?

Your entries are carried in the page address, so bookmarking the wheel after you have edited it saves the list, and sending the link shares it. Nothing is stored on a server and nothing is uploaded โ€” which also means clearing the tab without bookmarking loses the list, so bookmark it once and reuse it for years.

Is the wheel actually random, or does it favour certain slices?

Every slice is the same size and the winner is drawn from crypto.getRandomValues with rejection sampling, so there is no bias and no memory. Getting tacos twice in a row is not the wheel being lazy โ€” with ten options it happens about one time in ten, exactly as it should. Full details are on the methodology page.

How the randomness works

Each entry line becomes one equal slice, and the winning slice is drawn from crypto.getRandomValues using rejection sampling, so a ten-item list gives every item exactly a 10% chance with no bias towards the first entries. Duplicate lines are treated as separate slices, which is how weighting works. With remove-winner enabled the chosen item is removed from the working list and the wheel redraws at equal widths, raising the odds for everything left. Your list stays in the browser and in the page URL; nothing is sent anywhere, and no history is kept between spins.

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Why the list matters more than the spin

The wheel is treating a real problem: choice overload. Presented with a delivery app holding four hundred restaurants, most people scroll for twenty minutes and order the same thing they had last week, slightly annoyed. A ten-slice wheel is a deliberate act of shrinking the menu to a size a tired brain can handle.

Which means the useful work happens before you spin. Curating the list is the decision; the spin is only the tiebreak. A wheel you edit once a season, with the places that are actually good and actually open, quietly becomes the most-used bookmark in the house.

One rule keeps it working: whatever comes up, you eat. A wheel with a veto attached is a suggestion engine, and suggestion engines are what you were trying to escape. If you truly cannot live with a result, that option should never have been a slice.