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Random Wheel Generator (Wheel Maker)

Build a custom random wheel in seconds. Add entries, set weights, pick a palette, and spin to decide fairly. Free, no signup needed.

A random wheel generator lets you build a custom spinner from scratch — your entries, your rules, your results. There are no pre-loaded options here: you type in whatever you want to decide, weight the choices that matter more, and spin. Whether you're picking a winner for a giveaway, choosing tonight's dinner, or running a classroom activity, the wheel handles the randomness so you don't have to. It's free, works in any browser on any device, and needs no account or download.

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Add at least two entries in the panel on the right, then spin.

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Start with a preset

Pick a quick template or add your own entries above.

Spin History

Your spin history will appear here. Press Spin Now to get started.

How to use the Random Wheel Generator (Wheel Maker)

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    Open the random wheel generator and type your first entry into the text field, then press Enter to add it to the wheel.

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    Continue adding entries one by one, or paste a newline-separated list into the bulk-import area to load many at once — or upload a .csv file for a spreadsheet-based list.

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    Adjust each entry's weight (the numeric field in the entry row) if you want certain options to win more often; leave weights at 1 for equal probability.

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    Open the Customize panel to choose a colour palette, pointer style, font, spin duration, and sounds to suit your context.

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    Enable Remove Winner below the wheel if you're running a draw where each entry should only win once, then click Spin.

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    Read the result in the winner dialog that opens automatically, and share it via the built-in share buttons or copy it to the clipboard.

What Is a Random Wheel Generator?

A random wheel generator is a blank spinning wheel you fill with your own entries. Unlike themed wheels that come pre-loaded with a fixed set of options, this one starts empty and becomes whatever you need it to be. Add a list of names for a prize draw, a set of tasks for a team meeting, or a collection of weekend activities — the wheel doesn't care what you put in it, only that you spin it.

Every entry you add appears as a slice on the wheel. The more entries you add, the smaller each slice. If you want certain options to come up more often, increase their weight: a numeric value in each entry row that makes that slice proportionally larger. An entry with a weight of 3 occupies three times as much of the wheel as one with a weight of 1, and wins proportionally more often.

Once you're happy with the list, hit Spin. The wheel animates for the duration you choose — 3, 5, or 10 seconds — and then lands on a winner. A dialog opens automatically showing the result, with options to share it via your device's native share sheet, copy it to the clipboard, or post it directly to X, WhatsApp, or Facebook.

How to Make Your Own Wheel

Building a custom wheel takes under a minute. The entry panel sits right next to the wheel, so changes appear immediately. Here's what you can do:

  • Add entries one at a time — type into the text field and press Enter. Each new entry appears at the bottom of the list and as a new slice on the wheel.
  • Bulk import — paste a newline-separated list into the bulk-import text area to add many entries at once. This is the fastest way to load a long roster or a full prize list.
  • CSV import — upload a .csv file; the tool reads the first column and turns each row into an entry. Handy if your list already lives in a spreadsheet.
  • AI entry suggestions — hit the Ideas button and the tool generates contextual entry ideas based on what's already in your list. Useful when you're building a wheel and drawing a blank on what else to include.
  • Edit, duplicate, or hide entries — each row has inline editing, a duplicate button that inserts a copy directly after it, and an eye-toggle that keeps the entry in the list but skips it during spins. Hidden entries are easy to bring back without retyping.
  • Reorder entries — drag the grip handle to rearrange manually, or use the sort buttons to sort A–Z, Z–A, or by weight.

Each entry also supports an optional emoji and a hex colour override, so you can make specific slices stand out visually without changing the whole palette.

Customise the Look and Feel

The wheel is yours to style. Open the Customize panel to find the following controls:

  • 16 colour palettes — Carnival, Sunset, Ocean, Candy, Berry, Forest, Neon, Aurora, Tropical, Monochrome, Coral Reef, Citrus, Midnight, Earth, Royal, and Bubblegum. Pick the one that fits your context.
  • Shuffle colors — reshuffles the current palette order without switching palettes. Good for breaking up a pattern when entries are visually similar.
  • Pointer style — choose between Pin (the default), Arrow, and Classic.
  • Font — wheel labels render in either Fredoka (friendly and rounded, the default) or Plus Jakarta Sans (cleaner and more neutral).
  • Sounds — three win-sound options, a catalog of spin sounds, and a countdown-sound catalog (including Silent). A master volume slider (0–100%) and a Sound on/off toggle sit alongside them.
  • Spin duration — 3, 5, or 10 seconds. Longer spins build more suspense; shorter ones are better for rapid-fire classroom questions.

Two toggles sit below the wheel itself. Remove Winner deletes the winning entry from the pool immediately after the spin — essential for any draw where each prize can only go to one person. Shuffle on Spin randomises the entry order at the start of every spin; it doesn't affect the fairness of the outcome, but it keeps the wheel looking different each time.

An optional 3-beat countdown plays before each spin when you have a countdown sound selected — a small touch that helps if you're spinning in front of an audience.

Who Uses a Custom Wheel Generator?

Teachers and Educators

Classroom uses are almost endless. Load a wheel with student names to pick who answers next — far more neutral-feeling than a teacher's hand going up to the same corner of the room. Build subject-specific wheels: vocabulary words, maths problems, historical events, or grammar rules. The eye-toggle is particularly useful in class: hide a student's name once they've been called on, then unhide at the end of the session to reset for tomorrow. The full wheel catalogue has themed wheels for common classroom subjects if you want a pre-built starting point.

Giveaway Hosts and Streamers

Paste a list of entrants straight into the bulk-import area — copied from a comments section, a spreadsheet, or a Google Form export. Weight entries to give bonus tickets to certain participants (a supporter who follows, a subscriber, a patron). Enable Remove Winner if you're running multiple rounds so each winner leaves the pool. Share the result instantly using the winner dialog's share buttons — your audience sees the outcome in real time on X, WhatsApp, or wherever you're posting.

Teams and Remote Workers

Making group decisions is slow. A spin wheel generator speeds it up without the politics. Use it to assign tasks, pick a meeting facilitator, choose a lunch restaurant, decide a presentation order, or gamify a retrospective. Load the list before your call and spin live in the meeting — everyone sees the same result and nobody argues about fairness. Check out the random picker if you want a non-wheel alternative for the same job.

Party Hosts and Event Organisers

Custom wheels work well anywhere you'd have used a hat full of paper slips. Truth or dare prompts, party game categories, Secret Santa name draws, table seating decisions — all of these are trivial to set up. Add an emoji to each entry to make the wheel more visually entertaining, pick the Carnival or Neon palette, and turn the volume up on the spin sound for effect.

Content Creators and Game Masters

Random decision-making is content in itself. Tabletop RPG game masters use custom wheels for random encounter tables, loot drops, or NPC names. YouTubers and TikTokers use them for challenge wheels, viewer choice picks, or gear reviews. The ability to weight entries means you can mirror real-world probability tables — rarer outcomes get lower weights, common ones get higher. The Ideas button can suggest entries if you're stuck building a thematic list from scratch.

Parents and Families

Bedtime argument? Spin for it. Put "movie night", "board game", "outdoor walk", and "cooking together" on the wheel and let the kids spin. Chore assignment wheels, dinner menu pickers, weekend activity selectors — any recurring family negotiation can be delegated to the wheel. Kids find the spin genuinely exciting, which removes a lot of the resistance you'd get from a parental decree.

How Does This Compare to Other Wheel Tools?

Google offers a built-in spinner when you search "spin the wheel", and it works fine for a quick pick from a small default list. But it doesn't let you import a CSV, adjust entry weights, use per-entry colour overrides, or control spin duration and sounds. It's a one-shot tool. The random wheel generator here gives you full editorial control over every entry, lets you hide entries without deleting them, and keeps a per-session spin history so you can review the sequence of results. If you want something closer to a roulette experience rather than a custom list, the roulette wheel is a separate dedicated page. For general random selection without a visual wheel, Spin the Wheel offers a good set of themed starting points.

Spin History and Sharing Results

Every result is logged automatically in the spin history section below the wheel. Results appear in reverse order — most recent at the top — so you can see at a glance what's come up during the session. There's a Clear button if you want to wipe the log and start fresh. The history is local to your current session and browser tab; nothing is sent to a server.

The site also keeps a global cross-wheel history in the Header History dropdown, pulling in results from every wheel you've used during your visit. It's useful if you're jumping between multiple wheels in a session and want a single place to review all outcomes.

When the winner dialog opens after a spin, the share buttons let you send the result text and the current page URL. You can share natively on supported devices, copy the result to the clipboard, or post directly to X, WhatsApp, or Facebook. The share payload is the winning entry text and the page URL — nothing more.

Fair, Private, and Free

Every spin uses a random selection from the entries in the pool, weighted proportionally if weights are set. The tool runs entirely in the browser — no data leaves your device, no account is needed, and there are no spin limits. You can add as many entries as you like, spin as many times as you want, and use the wheel on desktop, tablet, or mobile. If you want to browse every pre-built wheel available on the site, the Misc hub has a range of general-purpose options alongside this generator.

Frequently asked

Q.01

What is a random wheel generator and how does it work?

A random wheel generator is a blank spinning wheel you populate with your own entries. Each entry becomes a slice; the wheel spins and lands on a result at random. Entry weights control how large each slice is — a higher weight means that entry occupies more of the wheel and wins more often. The spin runs entirely in your browser with no server involved.

Q.02

Can I use this as a wheel maker for a giveaway?

Yes. Paste your entrant list into the bulk-import area or upload a CSV file with names in the first column. If some entrants have bonus tickets, raise their weight using the numeric input in their entry row. Enable Remove Winner so each person can only win once if you're running multiple prizes. Share the result directly from the winner dialog once the wheel lands.

Q.03

Is this customizable wheel free to use?

Completely free — no account, no subscription, no per-spin limit. You can add as many entries as you like, spin as many times as you need, and use every feature including CSV import, AI suggestions, colour palettes, and weighted entries without paying anything. The tool works in any modern browser on desktop, tablet, and mobile.

Q.04

How do I create a wheel of fortune with custom entries?

Type entries into the entry panel next to the wheel or bulk-import a list. Each entry becomes a slice. Choose the Carnival or another festive palette from the Customize panel, pick a spin sound, and optionally add an emoji to each entry for visual flair. Hit Spin and the wheel animates before landing on a winner. That's all it takes to create a wheel of fortune for any occasion.

Q.05

Can I make a roulette wheel creator with weighted outcomes?

You can build a weighted random wheel that behaves like a roulette generator: assign higher weights to more common outcomes and lower weights to rare ones. The wheel slices resize proportionally. This isn't a casino-grade roulette simulation, but it's a solid way to mirror probability tables for games, RPG encounters, or prize tiers. For a dedicated roulette experience, see the separate roulette wheel page.

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Does the spin wheel generator save my entries between visits?

No — entries and customisation exist only for your current browser session. The tool doesn't store your wheel setup on a server or in your browser's persistent storage, so closing the tab clears everything. If you have a list you reuse often, keep it in a text file or spreadsheet and paste it in via bulk import each time you need it — that takes only a few seconds.

Q.07

How do I hide an entry without deleting it?

Each entry row has an eye-toggle icon. Click it to hide the entry: it stays in the list but is skipped during every spin. Click the eye again to bring it back. This is useful in classrooms — hide a student's name once called on, then unhide everyone at the end of the session — or in draws where you want to pause an entry without permanently removing it.

Q.08

What's the difference between Remove Winner and hiding an entry?

Remove Winner is a toggle below the wheel that automatically deletes the winning entry from the pool the moment a spin lands. It's permanent for that session — you'd need to re-add the entry manually to include it again. Hiding an entry with the eye-toggle is non-destructive: the entry stays in the list and you can re-enable it at any time with one click. Use Remove Winner for elimination draws; use the eye-toggle for temporary exclusion.

Q.09

Can I share my custom wheel with someone else?

You can share the result of a spin — the winner text and the current page URL — using the share buttons in the winner dialog. However, your entry list, weights, and customisation are not encoded in the URL and are not saved to a server, so sharing the link gives the recipient a blank wheel generator, not your configured one. To replicate your wheel, share the entry list separately so they can paste it in.

Q.10

How many entries can I add to the spin wheel generator?

There is no hard cap on the number of entries. In practice, very long lists produce small slices that are harder to read on the wheel itself, though every entry still has an equal (or weighted) chance of winning. For large draws — hundreds of names, say — the bulk-import and CSV-import options are the fastest ways to load the list, and the Remove Winner toggle keeps the pool clean across multiple rounds.

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