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Spin the Wheel: Free Online Wheel Spinner and Random Name Picker

Do you often get confused when it comes to making random choices like choosing what to eat, where to go for an outing, or choosing a random name, etc? If yes, we are presenting you with a tool, which is called “Spin the Wheel”. This Spin Wheel tool helps you make random choices without any biases.

In the following sections, we’ll tell you what Spin the Wheel is, how it works, features of this wheel spinner, and for what purposes you can use it. So let’s get started.

What is Spin the Wheel and How does it work?

Spin the Wheel is an online tool which helps the users pick random choices from a list of options. This Spin wheel works the following way:

  • You add your options in the “Entries” section or you spin it with default entries (names)
  • each option becomes a slice on the Spin Wheel
  • you click anywhere on the wheel or directly click the “Spin” button on the wheel
  • The wheel starts spinning, and as the wheel stops the pointer of the wheel spinner lands on a single option, and that option is the winner.

Note: This wheel is called by different names like Spin the Wheel, Wheel Spinner, Spin Wheel, wheel of fortune, or Wheel of Names, etc. So do not get confused with these terms because all mean the same. Moreover, as this wheel has Names on it as default entries, so it can be use as Random Name Generator or Random Name Picker.

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How to Use a Wheel Spinner?

The following are the steps that you need to follow while using a random wheel spinner:

  • Add the entries.
  • Click the “Spin” button or anywhere on this random picker wheel to spin the wheel.
  • When the wheel will stop spinning, the pointer on the Spin Wheel will be pointed towards the winner, a pop-up will appear with the winner’s name, and the winner’s name will be announced with a voice as well.
  • After that you can choose the “Spin Again” option, or you can choose to click the “Remove” button. If you choose the “Remove” button the winner’s name will be removed from the Entries section.
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Features of Spin the Wheel at spinwheelhub.net

The Wheel Spinner which is provided on the spinwheelhub.net has a lot of unique features which are as follows:

Fairness Audit

The number one quality of this Spin Wheel is that the winners are chosen by your browser’s secure random generator, not a basic one. A “Fairness Audit” is given in the wheel, so you can check the credibility of the results yourself.

Add Entries & Import CSV

You can add hundreds of entries in this Spin the Wheel. Moreover, there is an option called “Import CSV”, which helps you import the entries from CSV files by uploading that file.

Hide An Entry

You can hide the entries on our spin wheel. To do that, you go in the “List” view, and use the “Eye” icon to hide or unhide the entries.

Images on Slices

In the “List” view, there is a “Camera” icon. You can use the Camera icon to add images at the selected slices.

Export CSV

The “Export CSV” option allows the users to download the entries into their devices. These exported CSV files include the entry labels, weight, color, and hidden status of the entries.

Weighted Odds

You can add weighted entries so that they have more chances of winning. You make an entry weighted by using x2,  x3, or so on. The more weight you add to an entry, the bigger the slice it gets on the tool.

Open Option

By using the “Open” option, you can reuse the wheel that you had saved or downloaded before.

Share the Wheel

By using the “Share” option in the Spin the Wheel, you can share the wheel to other people. You can share the wheel on Whatsapp, Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail. Moreover, by scanning the QR code anyone can open the wheel in their device.

Fullscreen and Dark Mode

By using the fullscreen option you can open the wheel in the complete laptop screen. And by using the Dark mode, you can see the dark theme of the Spin Wheel.

An Extensive Library of 71 Languages

The whole interface of the tool is available in 71 languages. It supports right-to-left layouts for Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, and Sindhi. There is a hidden Pirate mode as well, for fun.

Multiple Wheels and Renaming the Wheel

You can add multiple wheels by using the “+” sign. Moreover, you can edit the wheel name by using the “Rename” option.

Access the Wheel Spinner Using Keyboard

You can spin the wheel by pressing the “Space” button on your keyboard.

Shuffle, Sort, and Clear Entries 

There are options that will help you shuffle, arrange, and clear the Entries with one click.

Streamer Mode

There is a “Streamer Mode” option as well. This option is for streamers, and it helps them to select the winners for their giveaways.

Download the Results in CSV File

The results of all the spins are saved, and you can download these results by clicking the “Export Results” button.

Customization Options

This is Spin the Wheel Custom, which means you can customize it the way you want. Following are the customization options that you get in this Spin Wheel, the randomizer tool:

  • You can customize the sound of spinning. There are 10 in-built sound options in the tool, and there is an option where you can add your own sound. You can adjust the “Volume”, and the “Spin Time” of the wheel. Moreover, if you want you can choose the “No Sound” option.
  • You can change the Skin Color of the wheel in the “Appearance” section. There are 5 skin color options available.
  • You can choose any wheel font from the 5 given options.
  • You can customize the “Center Image” and the “Background” of the wheel.

Nothing Is Stored on Our Server

Our Spin Wheel does not send your data to any other server. All of your information on the wheel is inside your browser, except the given situations, which are: If you use the Share option, the wheel title and entry names are sent to a QR code service to build the code. Fonts load from Google Fonts, and the random image option loads images from Picsum.

Save Option

You can save the wheel to your device, or you can download the wheel file by using this option.

Feedback

When you click the “More” option, there you’ll see the “Feedback” option. By using this option, you can send us your feedback about our spin wheel. You can give your suggestion or send us your words of appreciation. We value your feedback because it will help and encourage us to improve our tool.

Import Google Sheet

“Import Google Sheet” option on our spin wheel helps you directly import the entries from your Google Sheet to the wheel. You just have to paste the link of the sheet, and click “Import”. Make sure the sheet that you want to import is set to “Anybody with the Link” (anyone with the link can view it).

Reset Option

The “Reset” option on the wheel allows you to reset the Wheel Spinner entries and other settings to default in one click.

For What Purposes You Can Use Wheel Spinner

There are a lot of purposes you can use this wheel spinner for. From classrooms to streaming giveaways, you can use it everywhere. In the following we are presenting you some of the most common uses of this wheel spinner:

Choose What to Eat

Let’s say you are at a restaurant with your friends. Everyone has a different choice, and you are unable to decide what to order. Here, spinning the wheel will help you. You enter all of your favorite menu options, click the “Spin” button, and the winning dish will be announced.

In the Classroom

The teachers can use this wheel spinner in the classrooms for picking up students for presentations and answering the questions.

For Giveaways and Contests

If you are running a giveaway, you can add the names to the “Entries” section of the Spin Wheel, and spin. Once the wheel stops spinning, the winner of the giveaway will be selected.

For Teams and Meetings

Let’s say you want to assign a boring task to someone in your team, but nobody wants to do that task. You can simply add the names of your team members in the “Entries” section, spin the wheel, and the wheel will present and announce the name of the person who will do that boring task.

For Everyday Decision Making

You can use this wheel for everyday decision making like choosing a movie to watch, choosing a spot to go for recreation, choosing who will pay the bill, etc.

Where Not to Use Spin the Wheel

This Google spinner wheel is a useful tool if you are making quick and fun decisions, but it is not suitable for every situation. You should not use a wheel spinner for making decisions which involve serious consequences, important responsibilities, or require professional judgment. 

These decisions include your important career decisions, decisions related to your relationships, family, relocation, etc. In the following, we are going to discuss some of these situations in detail:

For Medical Decisions

Never use a Spin Wheel to decide which medicine to take, which treatment to choose, or whether you should seek medical help. Medical decisions should be made with proper evaluation and advice from a qualified healthcare professional.

For Financial Decisions

Never use Spin Wheel for making financial decisions like where to invest your money, which loan to take, or whether to make a major purchase. You should make your financial decisions based on your calculations and budgeting.

For Legal Decisions

Spin the Wheel is not built to help you make your legal decisions. Legal decisions should always be made by consulting your legal advisor.

Spin the Wheel Randomness Audit

If you are wondering if the Spin Wheel is actually picking up random options or it’s favoring some specific option over the others, randomness audit is there for you on each wheel. You can run the randomness audit and check if the wheel is picking up options randomly or not.

Every wheel on spinwheelhub.net, uses a cryptographically secure random generator (crypto.getRandomValues) to choose entries on a wheel. This cryptographically secure random generator runs the same code during the Fairness Audit, the code which is run to pick a winner during an actual spin. For full details about this randomness audit, you must visit Fairness Audit Page.

How to use Spin the Wheel in OBS or Streamlabs

If you are a streamer, you must be thinking how you can use this Spin Wheel for giveaways or other tasks during your live stream. Actually, you can use this wheel in OBS and Streamlabs. And our tool has a built-in Streamer Mode that makes it simple. 

Open the wheel and click Streamer mode. It gives you two web addresses. The first one shows the wheel on your stream. The second one is a control panel that spins it remotely. Keep this window open, because you will copy the URL from it. 

How to Use Spin the Wheel in OBS

By following the given steps, you can easily use this wheel spinner in OBS:

  • Open the Spin the Wheel tool and add your entries.
  • Customize the wheel if you want.
  • Click Streamer mode, and copy the first web address. This one shows the wheel only, without the buttons and the entry boxes.
  • Open OBS Studio and select the scene where you want to show the wheel.
  • Click + under Sources.
  • Select Browser or Browser Source.
  • Paste the copied web address.
  • The wheel comes on a green background. So add a Color Key filter to that Browser Source. The green will disappear, and the wheel will float over your scene.
  • Adjust the size and position of the wheel on your stream.
  • Start your stream and spin the wheel when you need it.

How to Use Spin the Wheel in Streamlabs

Following are the steps that you need to follow to use this random wheel generator in Streamlabs:

  • Open the Spin the Wheel tool and add your entries.
  • Click Streamer mode, and copy the first web address.
  • Open Streamlabs Desktop.
  • Select the scene where you want to show the wheel.
  • Click Add Source.
  • Select Browser Source.
  • Paste the copied web address.
  • Add a Color Key filter to remove the green background.
  • Adjust the size and position of the wheel.
  • Start your stream and use the wheel.

How to Spin the Wheel Remotely

You can spin this Google spinner remotely by using the following steps:

  • Copy the second web address (control panel) from Streamer mode.
  • In OBS, open it as a Custom Browser Dock. Or you can simply open it in another tab.
  • Click the SPIN button on that panel.
  • The wheel will spin on your stream, and the panel will show you the winner.

Note: Make sure you open both web addresses from the same web address, otherwise they will not talk to each other.

How to Let Your Viewers Join From Twitch Chat

You can let your viewers join from Twitch chat by using the following method:

  • Open Streamer mode and type your Twitch channel name.
  • Set the command you want. The default command is !join.
  • Click Start listening.
  • Now anyone who types that command in your chat is added to the wheel live.
  • Click Stop when you want to close the entries.

Note: To do all of this, you do not need a login or bot account. Moreover, if you fill in your channel name before you copy the first web address, the chat entries will start automatically inside OBS as well.

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FAQs

Yes. This roulette wheel is completely free to use. There is no paid plan, no trial, and no hidden cost.

No, you do not need to sign-up to use our wheel spinner.

You can add from two entries up to hundreds in this random roulette. The wheel resizes the slices to fit your list. 

No, it cannot be rigged at all. The winner is picked by your browser’s secure random generator, and the result is decided before the wheel animates. So how hard you click makes no difference. You can run the Fairness Audit yourself and check the odds. 

Yes, you can. When the winner is announced, click the “Remove” button. That name is removed from the Entries section, so you can spin again for the next winner without repeating anyone. 

Yes, you can make one entry more likely to win by adding a weight to that entry by using x2, x3, and so on. The more weight you add, the bigger its slice, and the better its chances. 

Yes, it works on all devices including mobile phones and tablets.

Yes, you can save a wheel by using the “Save” option to save the wheel to your device. Later you can use the “Open” option to load it again with all of your entries and settings. 

Yes, the wheel is 100% random.This Spin Wheel picks the winner using crypto.getRandomValues(), which is your browser’s cryptographically secure random generator. You can confirm the randomness by using the Fairness Audit, which is available in our tool.

Yes, you can use this wheel spinner for choosing the giveaway winner. Add the name of the participants, click the “Spin” button, and the winner will be announced once the wheel stops spinning.

Yes, the Spin Wheel works well with OBS and Streamlabs through the Streamer Mode present below the tool.

Conclusion

In short, Spin the Wheel is a tool which will help you in making fun decisions like choosing which game to play, which place to go, and what to order, etc. You just have to enter the available options in the Entry section, click anywhere on the wheel, and the wheel will announce the chosen option.

Make sure you do not use this Wheel Spinner for making serious decisions like health, legal, and finance related decisions. For fun decisions, use this Spin Wheel without any hesitation, and enjoy its all features.