Spin the Wheel — Free Random Picker
Type your own options — names, choices, numbers, anything — then spin. The wheel slows down, lands on one fair random result, and can drop each winner off the wheel for raffles and eliminations. Your list is saved in your browser.
What is Spin the Wheel?
Spin the Wheel is a free random picker: a colourful wheel divided into slices, one slice for every option you type in. Press spin and the wheel whirls, slows with a satisfying tick-tick-tick of momentum, and settles on exactly one answer. People reach for a wheel like this under a dozen names — wheel spinner, picker wheel, random wheel, prize wheel, name picker, decision wheel — and they all mean the same thing: when a choice has to be made and nobody wants to be the one making it, the wheel decides.
The version on vygam is deliberately simple and deliberately fair. There is no account, nothing is uploaded, and the winner of every spin is drawn with uniform randomness — each slice has exactly the same chance every time, whatever the wheel looked like when you pressed the button. Edit the list and the wheel redraws instantly; remove a winner between spins and it becomes a raffle where nobody can be picked twice. The whole thing runs in the page you are reading, on a phone as comfortably as on a whiteboard at the front of a classroom.
How to Use the Wheel
Is the Wheel Fair?
Yes, and it is worth explaining what fair means here, because spinning-wheel apps have a reputation to overcome. In this wheel the winner is chosen by a uniform random draw at the moment you press spin: with ten entries, each has precisely a one-in-ten chance, every single time. The animation that follows — the acceleration, the long coast, the final crawl past two or three slice edges — is presentation. It exists because a wheel that simply teleported to its answer would feel broken, not because the physics decides anything.
That design has a useful consequence: the outcome cannot be nudged. Spinning "harder", pressing at the right moment, or starting from a lucky position makes no difference, because there is nothing to time. It also means slice position is irrelevant — an option at the top of your list has the same chance as one at the bottom. If you need to convince a sceptical classroom or a group chat, run twenty spins with two entries and count: the split will wander around ten–ten exactly the way a fair coin does.
What People Use It For
A random wheel earns its keep anywhere a group needs a decision without an argument. These are the uses this page sees most:
Picking names without repeats
Paste a class list or a team roster, one name per line, and spin to choose who answers, who presents, or who goes first. Press Remove winner after each pick and the wheel never chooses the same person twice — a fair rotation with zero bookkeeping.
Giveaways and raffles
Paste the entrants, spin once for the prize, and the big announced result doubles as your receipt — everyone watching sees the same slice land. For multiple prizes, remove each winner and spin again so one person cannot sweep the table.
Deciding dinner, movies and turns
The classic stalemate-breaker. Load the dinner preset or type tonight's candidates, agree in advance that the wheel's word is final, and the decision takes ten seconds instead of forty minutes of "I don't mind, you choose".
Games, forfeits and party rules
Fill the wheel with truth-or-dare prompts, exercise sets, point values or forfeits and it becomes a game engine of its own. Because entries are just lines of text, the wheel is whatever you type into it.
FAQ
Is Spin the Wheel free to use?
Yes — the wheel on vygam is completely free. There is no download, no sign-up and no limit on spins; type your options and spin as many times as you like.
Is the wheel actually random?
Yes. Before each spin the result is drawn uniformly at random, so every entry on the wheel has exactly the same chance regardless of where the wheel is pointing when you press spin. The spinning animation is presentation — the landing slice is fair.
How many options can I put on the wheel?
From two up to one hundred. With very many entries the slices get thin, so the wheel also announces the winner in large text below — you never have to squint at a sliver to see the result.
Can I use it to pick names for a class or a giveaway?
Yes — that is one of its main uses. Paste one name per line, spin, and use Remove winner between spins so each person can only be picked once. That turns the wheel into a fair raffle or a no-repeat classroom picker.
Does the wheel remember my list?
Yes. Your entries are saved in your browser's local storage automatically, so the same list is waiting next time you open the page on that device. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Can it answer yes or no questions?
Yes — tap the Yes / No preset and the wheel becomes a two-slice decider. There are also presets for dinner ideas and numbers 1 to 10, and you can edit any preset after loading it.
What is this kind of wheel called?
People search for it as a spinning wheel, wheel spinner, picker wheel, random wheel, prize wheel, name picker or decision wheel. They all describe the same thing: a wheel of custom options that lands on one of them at random.