How to make a spin wheel

Type in your options, give the wheel a spin, and let it pick for you. No account, no install — and when you are happy with it you can drop the same wheel straight onto your own website.

A real wheel, running right here — click it to spin.

Four steps

1. Open a wheel

   Start from the main wheel, or pick a ready-made one from the wheel list — team names, numbers, truth or dare, and a few hundred more.

2. Put your own options in

   Type into the list on the right, one option per row. In a hurry? Open Text Mode, paste the whole list at once — one option per line — and press Apply.

3. Make it yours

   Shuffle the order, sort it A to Z, or open Settings to change the wheel style, the colour theme and the sounds.

4. Spin

   Click the wheel. The winner appears in a window when it stops, and every result is kept in the Results tab so you can look back at the whole session.

What each button does

These seven buttons sit above the option list. They are the real controls from the wheel page:

The toolbar, left to right

• 1
  ResetPuts the wheel back to the list it started with. Anything you typed in is discarded, so use it when you want a clean slate.
• 2
  Import a fileLoads your options from a file instead of typing them. Accepts .xlsx, .xls, .ods, .csv and .txt — handy for a class register or a long name list.
• 3
  ShuffleRandomises the order of the options on the wheel. It does not change the odds — every option still has the same chance — it just rearranges them.
• 4
  Sort A → ZPuts the list in alphabetical order. Press it again to flip to Z → A.
• 5
  Fast fillFills the wheel with a run of numbers instead of typing them out — give it a first number, a last number and a step, and it builds the list for you.
• 6
  SettingsThe wheel's layout and colour theme, a custom theme editor, whether confetti fires on a win, and the ticking, win and lose sounds.
• 7
  Clear listEmpties the wheel completely. It asks you to confirm first, so a stray click will not wipe your list.

Around the wheel itself

Four more controls sit next to the wheel: the speaker turns the ticking and win sounds on or off, the arrows icon takes the wheel full screen, the name field above the wheel sets its title, and the disk icon saves the wheel so you can come back to it. The magnifier searches the other wheels on the site.

Main Mode, Text Mode and Results

The panel beside the wheel has three tabs, and it is worth knowing what each one is for.

Main Mode is the row-by-row editor. Each option gets its own row, with a colour swatch and a delete button — best when you want to fine-tune one or two entries.

Text Mode shows the whole list as plain text, one option per line. Paste a list in, press Apply, and the wheel rebuilds itself. There are A → Z and Z → A buttons here too. This is the fastest way to load twenty names at once.

Results records every spin with the time it happened, so after a session of prize draws you still have the full list. You can sort it or clear it, and it starts empty again when you reload the page — nothing is stored anywhere.

Is the wheel actually random?

Yes. The winning segment is chosen first, using your browser's cryptographic random number generator, and the animation is then aimed at it — rather than the other way round. That matters: picking a stopping angle first and reading the winner off the geometry gives some segments slightly more room than others. Every option on the wheel has the same chance, whether there are two of them or two hundred.

Common questions