WheelJarWheels & Deciders
Type what the slices should say, spin once, and let a machine with no opinions settle it.
Wheel spinner
Type anything, one entry per line, and spin. The wheel has no favourites.
What to watch wheel
Spin the genre, not the title — the scroll ends before it starts.
Weighted random picker
A fair draw is not always an equal one. Write x3 and watch the bar move.
Random name picker
Paste the register, spin once. Nobody can accuse a wheel of having a favourite.
Rock paper scissors
The browser has no tell, no habits and no ego. Expect to finish somewhere near even.
What to eat wheel
Ten options, one spin, dinner settled before the group chat has finished typing.
Yes or no wheel
Three Yes slices, three No slices. The wheel does not hedge and cannot be talked round.
A wheel is the most persuasive randomiser ever built, and the reason is theatre. A number appearing on screen invites argument; a wheel slowing to a stop in front of everyone does not. The odds are identical either way — the difference is entirely in how willing people are to accept the result.
These five pages are the same engine wearing different clothes. The wheel spinner takes whatever you type. The yes or no wheel is pre-loaded for a straight 50/50 and edits down to two slices or up to three options. The random name picker adds the remove-winner option that turns repeated spins into first, second and third place. The what to eat wheel is a dinner list you should replace with your own delivery radius. And rock paper scissors is the one that plays back.
Pick by how many outcomes you need. Two, and a wheel is arguably slower than a coin flip. Between three and about forty, a wheel is the clearest instrument there is. Beyond that, the labels stop being readable and a numbered draw or the list randomizer does the job with less squinting.
Frequently asked questions
Which wheel should I start with?
The main wheel spinner on the homepage, because every other wheel here is that one with a preset list. Paste your own entries and it becomes a name picker, a chore wheel, a restaurant decider or a giveaway drum. The specialised pages exist to save you the typing and to answer the question that goes with each use.
Do all the wheels use the same odds?
Yes — every entry is one slice of exactly equal size, so the chance per spin is one divided by the number of lines. The yes or no wheel is 50/50 because three of its six slices say Yes, not because anything is weighted behind the scenes. Duplicate a line and you duplicate a slice, which is the only weighting mechanism there is.
Can I share a wheel I have set up?
Copy the page link. Your entries travel in the address bar, so whoever opens it sees the identical wheel with the same options in the same order. That is also how you save one for next week — bookmark the page after editing. Nothing is stored on a server, so the link is the only copy.
Is a wheel fair enough to run a giveaway with?
For an informal draw, yes, provided you fix the entry list in public and spin once on camera. Every slice is provably the same size and the winner is drawn from your browser’s cryptographic generator. For very long entry lists a numbered draw with the random number generator is easier to film and audit.
How the randomness works
crypto.getRandomValues, the
browser’s cryptographically secure random generator, and reducing it to the number of entries with
rejection sampling — so no slice is even fractionally more likely than another. The winner is
decided the moment you press the button and the animation simply rotates to it, which is why spin
strength and duration cannot influence anything. Entries are read from the text box and mirrored
into the page URL for sharing; nothing is stored or sent anywhere. The full write-up is on the
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