How to make a custom spinner wheel

How do I add, paste and order options?

Type an option into the box beside the wheel and press Enter or Add. The new slice appears instantly and gets the next colour from the site's palette. To change an existing option, click its text and edit it in place; to remove one, press the × at the end of its row.

For more than a handful of options, Edit as text is quicker. It swaps the list for a plain text box with one option per line, so you can paste a column from a spreadsheet, a class register or a list from your notes app. Blank lines are ignored, and existing colours stay with their line positions. Press Edit as list to switch back.

A wheel holds up to 200 options, each up to 60 characters. Two buttons help with order: Shuffle mixes the slices randomly, which is useful when alphabetical names would put all the "A"s together, and Sort A–Z puts them in alphabetical order, with numbers in natural order (2 before 10). The order of slices does not affect anyone's chances.

For numbers, you do not need to type them one by one. The random number wheel has From, To and Step boxes that build a wheel of up to 1,000 numbers.

How do I choose colours that read well?

Each option has a colour swatch at the start of its row; click it to pick any colour. The default palette is ordered so that neighbouring slices always contrast, and the wheel avoids giving the last slice the same colour as the first. The label on each slice is automatically set in dark or light ink, whichever contrasts better with that slice.

If you pick your own colours, a few habits help:

• Alternate light and dark colours around the wheel so borders stay visible.
• Use colour to carry meaning sparingly, such as green for Yes and red for No, and make sure the words still say it, since some viewers cannot tell red from green.
• Avoid several near-identical shades next to each other; on a projector they merge.

How do I make some options more likely?

Open Settings and tick Use weights. A number box appears beside every option, from 0.1 to 100. An option with weight 2 gets a slice twice as big, and twice the chance, of one with weight 1. This is how you build a prize wheel with common and rare prizes, or a dinner wheel that favours quick meals.

Unticking Use weights resets every option back to equal. The wheel always draws slices at their true size, so anyone watching can see the odds. If you want the maths, the wheel probability guide has worked examples.

How do I set the title, spin length and sound?

The Wheel title in Settings appears at the top of the result pop-up in place of the default "The wheel landed on", so a wheel titled "Tonight's film" announces its pick with that heading. It is also used as the title of your embed.

Spin length offers Short (3 seconds), Normal (5 seconds) and Long (8 seconds). Short suits rapid classroom questions; Long builds suspense for prize draws. The length changes the drama, not the odds.

Tick sound while spinning plays a soft click each time a slice edge passes the pointer, like a physical wheel. You can also toggle it with the sound button under the wheel, and your choice is remembered on this device.

How do remove the winner and results history work?

By default, every option stays on the wheel after it wins. For draws without repeats, tick Remove the winner after each spin: the winning slice disappears when you close the result or spin again. The last remaining option is never removed, so the wheel is never left empty.

To drop just the occasional result, leave the setting off and press Remove it and spin again in the result pop-up.

Results, under the options, lists every spin in this session with the newest at the top. Copy puts the whole history on your clipboard as a numbered list in the order drawn, ready for a message or a spreadsheet. The history is kept until you reload the page or press Clear, so copy it before you close the tab.

How do I use full screen for a class or a stream?

The Full screen button under the wheel enlarges the wheel to fill the screen, hiding the rest of the page. It is the best view for a projector, a TV or a screen recording of a giveaway. Press it again, or Esc, to exit. The button only appears on browsers that allow a page to go full screen, which excludes some phones.

How do I share my wheel or put it on a website?

Press Share or embed under the wheel. The first box holds a link to your exact wheel: its options, colours, weights, title, spin length and remove-the-winner setting are packed into the link itself, so nothing is stored on a server. Anyone who opens it sees the wheel you built and can spin it or make their own changes.

Because the options travel inside the link, anyone who has the link can read them. Avoid putting private information, such as full names with contact details, on a wheel you share.

The second box holds embed code: a short iframe you can paste into a blog, a school website or a learning platform that accepts HTML. The embedded version shows the wheel and its Spin button without the editor. Step-by-step instructions for common site builders are on the embed a wheel page.

Is my wheel saved, and how do I start again?

Yes. Every change is saved automatically in your browser's local storage, separately for each wheel page, so your custom dinner wheel and your class name picker do not overwrite each other. Come back on the same browser and device and the wheel is as you left it. Nothing is uploaded.

It does not follow you to another device, and clearing browser data removes it, so bookmark the share link of any wheel you want to keep.

To start over, open Settings and press Reset to default, which restores the page's original options and settings and clears the results history. Clear all empties the option list so you can build from nothing.

Can I use the wheel with a keyboard?

Yes. Ctrl + Enter (or Cmd + Enter on a Mac) spins from anywhere on the page, and also closes an open result first, so you can run a whole draw from the keyboard. Every button and field can be reached with Tab. If your device is set to reduce motion, spins are shortened to about a second and the confetti is skipped.

Design tips for a wheel people can read

• Keep labels short. Two or three words read well; long labels are shortened with an ellipsis on the slice, although the full text always appears in the result.
• Aim for 2 to 20 slices when people watch from a distance. Beyond that, labels shrink, and on very thin slices they are hidden. Big name lists still work, but the result pop-up does the reading.
• Put the meaning in words, not only colours. "Yes" beats a green slice with no text.
• Remove options nobody wants to land on. A wheel is only useful if every result is acceptable.
• Give it a title so a shared or embedded wheel explains itself.