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Random number generator — pick any range and spin

Set a minimum and a maximum, press Spin, and the wheel lands on a random number from your range. Use it for raffle draws, classroom question picks, board games missing a die, lottery-style number picks, or any moment where someone has to "just pick a number" and nobody trusts the person picking. Every number in the range owns an exactly equal slice of the wheel.

The wheel loads with the numbers 1 to 25 on it, and one-tap presets cover the most common ranges — 1 to 50, 1 to 75 and 1 to 100 — so a random number between 1 and 100 is two taps away. You can also type any minimum, maximum and interval you like: 5 to 500 in steps of 5 works just as well as 1 to 10. If you'd normally search Google for a random number generator, bookmark this page instead — it does the same job with a results history and export built in.

How to generate a random number in three steps

1. Set your range. Type a minimum and maximum, or tap a preset like 1–100. The interval field lets you skip-count — an interval of 2 over 0–24 gives you the even numbers only.
2. Press Spin. The wheel rebuilds itself with one slice per number, slows, and settles on the result. Every number in the range has an identical chance, from the minimum to the maximum inclusive.
3. Use the result. Each spin is saved to the results history automatically, and you can export the full record as PDF, CSV or text — handy proof for a raffle draw or a classroom log.

Three modes: ranges, digits and custom lists

Number mode is the classic random number generator: any minimum, any maximum, any interval. Presets include the even numbers 0–24, the odd numbers 1–25 and the primes 2–23 for maths lessons. Digits mode generates a single digit from 0 to 9 — useful for building multi-digit numbers one spin at a time, or for games that call digits rather than numbers. Custom mode accepts any list you paste in, one number per line, so ticket numbers, jersey numbers or seat numbers that aren't a clean range still work.

For draws where each number should only come up once — bingo calls, raffle tickets, question numbers — turn on remove-after-spin and the wheel shrinks as numbers are drawn, exactly like pulling tickets from a hat. If your draw is between names rather than numbers, the random name generator works the same way with a list of people.

Five ways people use it

• Raffles and prize draws. Set the range to match the tickets sold, spin, and export the results history as a PDF so the draw has a paper trail.
• Classrooms. Pick which question a student answers, which group presents first, or a random page number to revise from. The wheel of names handles picking the student to go with it.
• Board games and tabletop nights. Missing a die or need a d100? Set the range and spin. For dedicated dice, the dice roller rolls d4 through d20 with proper dice shapes.
• Decision tie-breakers. "Pick a number between 1 and 10" settles more arguments than it should. When the choice is yes or no rather than a number, the yes or no wheel is faster.
• Games and challenges. Random rep counts for a workout, random coordinates for a scavenger hunt, random scores for a quiz handicap — anywhere a fair number is needed, the wheel provides it.

What is a random number generator, and is this one fair?

A random number generator — RNG for short — is any system that produces numbers with no predictable pattern. Computers can't create true randomness from nothing, so they use cryptographic algorithms seeded by unpredictable system noise; this wheel draws from the cryptographic random source built into your browser, the same class of randomness used for encryption. For raffles, games and classroom picks, that is indistinguishable from true random — and far fairer than a human "picking randomly", which reliably favours 7 and avoids round numbers.

Fairness here means every number in your range has an exactly equal chance on every spin, no spin is influenced by the one before it, and nothing is sent to a server — the draw happens entirely on your device. For binary choices the coin flip is the simplest possible case, and the decision wheel extends the same idea to any options you can type.