Pick a random winner from a list of names, fun and fair
5 names on the wheel. The wheel redraws as you edit.
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Spinning a wheel is the most persuasive random pick there is: everyone watches the pointer slow down, hesitate over a neighbor, and settle on a winner, so the outcome feels earned even though it is pure chance. Paste your contestants into the list, one per line, and the wheel redraws instantly with equal-sized slices. The spin uses the browser's cryptographically seeded random number generator to choose the result up front, then animates the wheel to it with an ease-out curve, long fast phase, dramatic slow finish.
The remove-winner flow turns the wheel into a full raffle: after each spin, one click takes the winner out of the pool and you can spin again for the next prize, with a running history of everyone picked so far. This is the classroom-safe way to distribute assignments, pick presentation order, or draw door prizes without repeats or arguments about folded paper slips. The history panel keeps the audit trail.
Because the result is decided by random chance rather than any weighting, every name on the wheel has an identical probability of winning each spin, and removing winners does not change anyone else's odds beyond the arithmetic of a smaller pool. For draws that need numbers instead of names, the random number generator and the random team generator cover the same fairness guarantees in different formats.
Yes. The winning slice is chosen with JavaScript Math.random, seeded by the browser from a high-quality entropy source, before the animation begins. The animation only visualizes the pre-drawn result, so every name has exactly equal odds on every spin regardless of where it sits on the wheel.
Between 2 and 60. Beyond roughly 60 slices, labels become too small to read on a phone screen, so the spinner stops accepting entries at that point. For very large groups, split the list into rounds, or use the random team generator to divide everyone at once.
It deletes the winning name from the list, redraws the wheel without it, and immediately starts a fresh spin. That makes sequential prize draws simple: first spin for the grand prize, remove, spin again for second place, and so on, with no chance of one person winning twice.
Absolutely. Any short text works: prizes, tasks, restaurants, dares, quiz categories, or yes/no-maybe decisions. Keep entries short, ideally under about 14 characters, because long labels get truncated on the wheel face to keep slices readable.
No. The name list, wheel, and history live only in the current page session and disappear when the tab closes, which also means nothing about your participants is stored or transmitted anywhere. Copy your list back out of the textarea if you want to keep it.