A prize wheel you can set up in the minute before the doors open

The physical version costs a few hundred pounds, lives in a cupboard eleven months of the year and needs a car to move. A prize wheel on screen does the same job — the same clatter, the same small crowd, the same fairness everyone can see — and it fits on the laptop you already brought. Type the prizes, spin, hand the item over. Spinwheely keeps it that simple on purpose.

The wheel loads with a sample prize list so you can see it working straight away. Clear it and put in whatever you're actually giving out — vouchers, stock, a free coffee, an extra day off.

Odds you control honestly

Every slice has identical odds, which is the right default and also the thing people get wrong. If your grand prize should come up once in twenty spins, the fix isn't a smaller slice — it's filling the rest of the wheel with the prizes you have plenty of. Nineteen slices of "10% off" and one of "free jacket" gives you a wheel that's genuinely weighted and still visibly fair, because anyone watching can count it.

Adding a "spin again" or "better luck next time" slice is worth doing too. A wheel where every outcome is a win stops feeling like a game after the third person.

Running it live: stands, classrooms, streams

At a market stall or conference stand, a spin to win wheel on a tablet propped upright does more to stop passing traffic than a leaflet ever will. Fullscreen it, turn the sound on, and let people press spin themselves — the interaction is the point.

Teachers use the same setup for a Friday reward wheel: no homework tonight, choose the music, five minutes extra break. Streamers put a digital prize wheel on screen share for channel-point redemptions, where the visible randomness heads off any accusation that the outcome was arranged.

Keep prizes unique, keep the queue moving

If you're giving out one of each item, switch on remove-after-spin so the wheel shrinks as stock goes. When it's empty, you're done — no awkward moment where two people are promised the same last hoodie. For draws where prizes are unlimited, leave it off and let the wheel run all day.

How the result is decided

Each spin calls crypto.getRandomValues() in your own browser — the same randomness source used for security tokens, not a shuffled-looking animation with a predetermined end. The wheel is drawn to land where the number says. Two identical results in a row happen and are normal; that's what independent draws look like. Nothing about your prize list is sent anywhere.

Other Spinwheely wheels for the same event

Drawing a winner from a list of entrants rather than a list of prizes? Use the raffle wheel or the wheel of names. For a gift exchange there's the secret santa generator, and the main spin the wheel tool builds a custom wheel from any list you paste in. All free, no signup.