When to use a yes/no wheel
Some decisions are too small to deliberate. Should I text them? Should I buy the second coffee? Should we order in tonight? When the cost of either option is low but the back-and-forth is high, a binary wheel cuts the loop. The defaults β Yes, No, Maybe, Try Again, Definitely, Later, Ask Again, Not Sure β give you eight nuanced answers instead of a flat coin flip, which is enough to feel like the wheel actually considered the question.
Cheat at random
If you secretly know what you want the answer to be, you can stack the deck. Bump "Yes" up to weight 5 and the wheel will land there roughly half the time. We won't tell. Or use the wheel as a tiebreaker between two slightly different options by renaming the slices.
Settle group decisions
Put the wheel on a shared screen and let everyone agree to abide by the spin. It works for picking restaurants, weekend plans, what to watch next β anywhere a "majority can't agree" moment shows up.