SPIN THE WHEEL — RANDOM NAME PICKER

Picking a winner should be the easy part — but doing it by hand always ends in arguments. Someone saw you scroll the list, someone swears the chit was folded differently, and suddenly the classroom draw or the office giveaway feels rigged. This spin the wheel tool removes all of that: you paste your names, everyone watches the wheel slow down together, and the winner is whatever the pointer lands on. One shared moment, zero suspicion.

The tool works as a complete random name picker for any list — students, raffle tickets, team members, songs, chores, restaurant options, anything you can type. It runs entirely in your browser, needs no signup, and saves your list automatically so you can close the tab and come back later without losing anything.

How to use the wheel (3 steps)

1. Add names: Type one name per line in the box on the right, or separate them with commas. A duplicate name gets double the winning chance — handy for weighted draws.
2. Spin the wheel: Hit the SPIN button or tap the wheel's centre. Pick a speed preset — from 3 seconds fast to 8 seconds of full suspense.
3. Announce the winner: The winner pops up with confetti, is saved to History, and can be copied anywhere with one click.

Who uses this random picker?

• Teachers: a random student picker for the classroom — fair turns for everyone. Enable Remove Winner and every student gets picked exactly once, like a turn-by-turn presentation order.
• Giveaway hosts: a YouTube/Instagram giveaway winner picker — paste your entries, share your screen, and spin live so your audience sees a transparent draw instead of a screenshot.
• Lucky draws: society events, shop promotions and office chit systems — a transparent random draw everyone can trust, with a saved history of every result.
• Teams & families: who presents first, who washes the dishes, where to order lunch — let the wheel decide and skip the debate.
• Quick decisions: load the Yes/No/Maybe preset as an yes or no wheel, or Heads/Tails when you need a coin flip with witnesses.

Features that make it better than a hat full of chits

• Up to 300 entries — enough for a full classroom, a contest with hundreds of comments, or an A–Z wheel.
• Weighted draws: list a name twice to double its chances — three times to triple them. Perfect when some entrants earned bonus tickets.
• Remove Winner mode: every spin eliminates the winner, so you can draw a complete random order from start to finish.
• Winners History: every result is timestamped in order and one click copies it — great for posting results after a live draw.
• Fullscreen mode: project it in a classroom or on stage; the wheel scales cleanly to any screen.
• Sound effects: a tick per segment while it spins and a fanfare on the win — mute it with one click if you prefer silence.
• Auto-save: your list, settings and history survive page refreshes via localStorage — nothing is uploaded to any server.

Tips for a trustworthy draw

• Show the list first. Paste all entries, let everyone see the count badge match expectations, then spin. Transparency before the spin is what makes the result believable.
• Lock the options before spinning. Remove Winner and the speed setting can't be changed mid-spin — the wheel runs on a fixed random target chosen at the moment you press SPIN.
• Use Shuffle for visual fairness. Shuffling mixes the colours and positions so nobody claims a "lucky segment" — then spin.
• For big giveaways, spin live. Screen-share the fullscreen wheel during a stream; the slowing tick-tick-tick is the moment viewers stay for.

Pair it with our other free utilities: style your giveaway post with the Fancy Text Generator, create a scannable entry link with the QR Code Generator, or draw secure prize codes with the Password Generator.