Random wheel spinner where the slices tell the truth

TrueWedge is a free wheel spinner for picking a name, an order or a winner. Type your entries or paste a list, spin, and share the wheel as a link. It runs in the browser on a phone, a laptop, or the screen at the end of a meeting room — nothing to install, no account, no ads.

Ready-made wheels

A few wheels get spun over and over — heads or tails, yes or no, pick a colour — and building one by hand each time is a minute spent on something that never changes. Some could not be built by hand anyway: nothing in the editor sets the colour of a slice, or draws a coin as a coin, so those exist on their own page or nowhere.

Each opens with the wheel already filled in. Spin it as it is, or replace the entries and it becomes your own wheel, shared as a link like any other.

• Flip a coin — heads or tails at even odds, drawn as a coin rather than as two slices. It also answers whether a physical coin flip is genuinely 50/50, which it is not, with both papers linked.
• Yes or no — two slices and no opinion about your life. What is useful is usually what you feel in the half-second after it lands, which is information the wheel did not give you.
• Random color picker — red, green and blue, a rainbow, or all twelve of the ones people can name.

Two more show what weighting looks like across a long list. Both hold the same fifty labels; only the odds differ.

• All fifty US states — one fiftieth each, alphabetically.
• US states by population — the same fifty, each taking the share of the circle it takes of the country's people. California is about a ninth of it and Wyoming about a six-hundredth: a fact a list of names cannot show and a picture can.

Picking names, drawing raffles and making teams

Pull a name at random in a classroom. Draw a raffle in front of the people entered in it. Choose who presents first, set a running order, build teams, run a tournament draw, or settle something nobody wants to decide.

Every result carries a Remove button, so drawing several winners in a row is a decision you make after each spin rather than a mode you commit to before the first one. Names already drawn stay on screen in a list.

Long lists stay readable. Past about two dozen entries the slices carry numbers instead of names, and the winning name is shown in full on the result either way — so a class of thirty works as well as a shortlist of four.

Weighted wheels that show their weights

Type a percentage beside an entry and its slice resizes to match. A one-in-five chance takes up a fifth of the circle, on every wheel and at every length.

There is no mode that hides uneven weights behind slices drawn the same size. You can lean on a wheel as heavily as you like — only ever where the room can see you doing it. That matters when the wheel is settling something real: a prize, a duty, an order of play, anything where someone present might reasonably want to check the odds before agreeing to abide by them.

Spinning the wheel in front of a room

Present mode fills the screen. No toolbar, no editor, nothing to click by accident mid-draw. The spacebar spins, the screen stays awake, and the type is sized to be read from the back rather than from a laptop on a desk.

Once the wheel is on screen, nothing more is downloaded. Every spin, reveal and removal is worked out in the browser, so if the wifi drops halfway through a raffle the wheel keeps spinning and the winners so far stay on the list. Reloading the page is the one thing that needs the connection back.

Common questions

Can I make one entry more likely to win?

Yes — type a percentage beside it. The slice changes size to match, so a wheel that has been weighted looks weighted.

Can I draw several winners without repeats?

Yes. Every result carries a Remove button, so you decide as you go rather than choosing a mode before the first spin.

Are my wheels saved anywhere?

Nowhere. The wheel travels in the link, so copying the link is what keeps it. No account, no cookie, no database — and nothing to lose access to later.

Is the wheel spinner actually random?

It uses the browser's cryptographic random generator, and the winner is chosen before the wheel starts turning — so the animation cannot drift, stall or favour the top of the circle. You can run any wheel ten thousand times and check the distribution yourself.

The rest are on the questions page, and about is the longer version of why this exists.