Spin the Wheel
A free random name picker wheel. Add your names or options, give it a spin, and get a fair random winner every time. Perfect for giveaways, classrooms, raffles, and quick decisions. No signup — runs entirely in your browser.
Add your names or options, then hit Spin. Great for giveaways, picking who goes first, or random classroom selection. Everything stays in your browser.
How to Use the Spinner Wheel
- 1Type your names or options, one per line, in the box.
- 2Press Spin and watch the wheel slow to a stop.
- 3The segment at the pointer is your random winner.
- 4Optionally remove the winner and spin again for the next pick.
A Fair, Visual Way to Decide
A spinning wheel is one of the most satisfying ways to make a random choice, because it turns a simple decision into a moment of suspense that everyone can watch. Whether you are drawing a giveaway winner in front of an audience, choosing which student answers next, or just settling where to go for dinner, the wheel makes the outcome feel fair and fun rather than arbitrary. Because every eye is on the same spinning pointer, no one can argue the result was rigged.
Why the Result Is Genuinely Fair
It is worth knowing that the fairness comes from the maths, not the motion. The winning segment is chosen by your browser's random number generator, which gives every entry an identical probability, and only then does the animation play out to land on that entry. That means the position of a name on the wheel, the length of the spin, and everything else visual has no effect on the odds — each entry has exactly the same chance, spin after spin.
Great for Classrooms and Giveaways
Teachers love a picker wheel for cold-calling students without bias and for keeping a class engaged, while streamers and event hosts use it to draw prizes live in a way the audience can see and trust. Turn on Remove winner to run a multi-prize raffle or to work through a whole list — a running order, a chore rota, a bracket seeding — without ever picking the same entry twice.
Tips for Using the Wheel
One entry per line
Paste a list straight in — each line becomes a segment automatically. Blank lines are ignored.
Keep names short
Short labels are easiest to read on the wheel. Very long entries are trimmed to fit each segment.
Remove winners for raffles
Toggle "Remove winner" to draw several prizes or make an order without repeats.
Share your screen
The suspenseful spin works brilliantly on a projector or stream so everyone sees the fair result.
Weight by repeating
Want an entry to have a bigger chance? Add it on more than one line to give it more segments.
Everything stays private
Your list never leaves your browser, so it is safe for names, emails, or any private list.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the spin the wheel picker work?
You type a list of names or options, one per line, and they are shown as coloured segments on the wheel. When you press Spin, the wheel accelerates, spins several times, and slows to a stop with the pointer at the top landing on one segment — that entry is the winner. Each spin is independent and fair, giving every entry an equal chance regardless of its position on the wheel.
Is the wheel spin truly random?
Yes. The winning segment is chosen using your browser’s random number generator before the animation starts, and every entry has exactly the same probability of being picked. The spinning animation is purely visual — the outcome is decided fairly and cannot be influenced by where an entry sits on the wheel or how hard you "spin".
Can I remove the winner after each spin?
Yes. Turn on the "Remove winner" option and each selected entry is automatically taken off the wheel after it wins. This is ideal for drawing multiple prizes in a raffle, picking a running order, or working through a list without repeats. Leave it off if you want every entry to stay in for every spin.
How many entries can I add?
You can add as many entries as you like — just put one per line in the box. The wheel automatically resizes its segments to fit, and labels shorten if they are very long. For readability the text stays clearest up to a few dozen entries, but the picker itself works fairly with any number.
What can I use the wheel for?
It is endlessly useful: picking a raffle or giveaway winner, choosing which student answers next, deciding where to eat, selecting who goes first in a game, assigning chores, or making any random decision. Because it is visual and suspenseful, it also works brilliantly on a shared screen for classrooms, streams, and events.
Is it free and private?
Completely free with no signup and no ads interrupting play. Everything — your list of entries and the random draw — runs entirely in your browser, so nothing is uploaded or stored on a server. Your entries stay private and it works offline once the page has loaded.
Learn more in our guide on using a spin the wheel random picker.