Free Online Spinner Wheel – Random Decision Maker

The spinner wheel you can actually configure

Most online spinning wheels give you one text box and a spin button. This one is a workbench. Every segment can be renamed, recoloured, given an image, or weighted so it comes up more or less often. You choose how long the spin lasts, whether the labels are visible, and whether the result is saved to a history you can export. Whatever you set stays set until you change it.

That matters when a wheel is doing real work rather than settling one argument. A teacher running the same class register every day, a host running the same giveaway every Friday, or a streamer whose audience expects the same segments each week does not want to rebuild the wheel from scratch each time. Configure it once, save it, spin it forever.

What you can change

• **Segments** — add, remove, rename and reorder. A wheel holds well over a thousand entries, so a full class list or a long giveaway list fits.
• **Colours** — assign a colour per segment. Purely visual, but it makes a busy wheel readable and lets you group related options.
• **Images** — attach a picture to a segment, useful for prize wheels with product shots or picture-based classroom activities.
• **Weights** — make some outcomes more likely than others. Leave them equal for a fair wheel; adjust them when you deliberately want uneven odds.
• **Spin duration** — from a quick flick to a long, deliberate slowdown.
• **Mystery mode** — hide the labels until the wheel stops, so the result is a reveal rather than a countdown.

How a spin works

1. Your segments are laid out evenly around the wheel, with each segment's share of the circle matching its weight.
2. When you press spin, the wheel rotates and decelerates to a stop at an angle chosen at random.
3. The segment under the pointer is the result. It is shown on screen and added to the results panel.
4. Previous results are listed with a timestamp, so you can see what came up and when. You can copy the whole list as a table or clear it.
5. If you need each entry to win only once, remove the winner after a spin and it drops out of the pool.

How the winner is chosen

The winning segment is picked before the wheel starts moving. The page draws a random angle from your browser's cryptographic random number generator (crypto.getRandomValues), then animates the wheel to that angle and reads off whichever segment sits under the pointer. The spin is presentation, not the decision — there is no point in the animation where the outcome is still open, and stopping or interacting with the wheel cannot change it.

The draw runs entirely in your browser. No part of it is decided on our server, nothing is stored, and nobody at Fortune Wheels can predict or influence a result. That also means you can check it yourself: the random angle is the only input to the outcome, and it comes from the same OS-seeded generator your browser uses for passwords and encryption.

Fairness, in plain terms

Each spin is independent. The wheel does not remember its last result, so an option that just came up is exactly as likely to come up again. That is what fair means, and it is also why a wheel can produce three of the same result in a row without being broken — streaks are what randomness looks like. If you want every entry to appear once rather than at random, use the remove-winner step instead of relying on the wheel to even things out.

Segment size and colour are cosmetic. They do not tilt the odds; only weights do. If someone asks whether a draw was fair, the honest answer is to show them the wheel before the spin and the results list after it.

When to use this rather than one of the ready-made wheels

• **You have your own list.** Sixty-four ready-made wheels already cover common cases — chores, food, party games, sports, classrooms. This page is for when the options are yours.
• **You need the same wheel repeatedly.** Save it once rather than rebuilding it each session.
• **You need control over the odds.** Weighted segments are how you make a rare grand prize genuinely rare.
• **You need the result to be watchable.** Longer spins and mystery mode make a draw into something an audience will actually watch.

Works on the devices people actually use

The wheel is responsive, so it is usable on a phone held in one hand at a table and legible on a projector at the front of a hall. It needs no install and no account to spin. The site can be added to a phone home screen, after which it opens full screen like an app and keeps working without a live connection for spinning.

Frequently Asked Questions