NameWheel is a free spinning wheel that picks names, prizes, teams and tournament champions using real cryptographic randomness. This page walks through every feature in the order you will actually meet them: the wheel itself, the five spin modes, the sounds and celebrations, the smart tools, and exactly what PRO adds on top. Nothing here is exaggerated, and you can verify any claim on the wheel in about two minutes.
Most spinner sites treat the wheel as a toy. We treat it as an instrument, because people use it to hand out real prizes, real grades and real chores. Everything below is free and needs no account.
Every spin calls crypto.getRandomValues, the generator browsers use for encryption keys. Math.random never touches a result, and the Fairness Lab lets you test that claim yourself.
The wheel has weight. It accelerates, coasts and settles like the real thing, and every label stays painted to its slice at every angle, so nothing flips or jitters mid spin.
One name per line, straight from a spreadsheet, a chat export or your head. A class of thirty or a raffle list of hundreds loads the same way: paste, spin, done.
Phone, tablet, laptop, classroom projector, stream overlay. Nothing to install, nothing to update. Open the page and the wheel is ready.
The wheel remembers your names between visits on the same device, automatically. Sign in and your wheels follow you across every device instead.
Press Ctrl and Enter and the wheel spins without your hands leaving the keyboard. Small thing, until you run twenty draws in a row on a Friday afternoon.
One wheel, five different games. Switch between them with a single tap above the name list, and the wheel rebuilds itself around the new rules instantly.
The classic draw. Spin, land, celebrate, spin again. The winner stays on the wheel, so every spin is a fresh draw with identical odds for everyone on it.
Each winner leaves the wheel and the spin continues with everyone left. The slices grow wider, the tension grows with them, and the last name standing takes it all.
Type one list and let the wheel sort the room. Every spin drops the landed name into the next group, so the sorting itself becomes the show and nobody can claim the sides were stacked. The winning squad gets its own gold badge moment.
Nobody leaves the wheel. Every landing scores a point on the board beneath it, and the race runs to whatever number you agree on. First to five, first to twenty, your call.
A full tournament on one wheel. Your names are seeded into head to head matchups, the wheel spins each duel, and winners advance round by round until a single champion is crowned. Sixteen names in, one name out, and every elimination happens in front of the room.
Every sound is synthesized live in your browser. Nothing is a looping mp3, which is why the ticks stay perfectly glued to the wheel even as it slows. And every locked sound or effect plays a full preview when you tap it, because you should hear and see what you are buying before anyone mentions a card.
A spin takes four seconds. Building the list, saving the setup and sharing the result is where the real time goes, so that is where the smartest features live.
Tell the wheel what you need. Type something like icebreakers for a shy team or 90s movie villains, pick 8, 12, 20 or 30 entries, and the list writes itself straight onto the wheel. Three free fills every month, one hundred a day on PRO.
Type a colon and a number after any name, like Alice:3, and Alice holds three raffle tickets while everyone else holds one. Her slice grows to match, so the advantage is visible to the whole room. Weighting in the open, never rigging.
Free accounts keep three wheels in the cloud, with spin history and a fourteen day activity chart in your dashboard. PRO removes the ceiling entirely.
Every wheel exports as a small file you can email, archive or drop back onto any browser. Your setups are never trapped here, and they never expire.
Icebreakers, classroom review, date night, truth or dare, workout draws and more. The template gallery loads any of them onto the wheel in one click.
Every wheel gets a link worth sending. And the whole wheel drops into your own site with one iframe, driven by a small JavaScript API documented on the embed page.
PRO is not a paywall wrapped around basics. Everything above spins free forever. PRO is for the people who run the wheel in front of an audience: streamers, teachers, event hosts and teams who want the wheel to look like theirs and behave exactly their way.
The streaming setup covers OBS capture, sub giveaways and the winner moments your chat clips. Pair it with Gold Rain and the Slot Jackpot sound and the wheel becomes a segment, not a pause.
Cold calling without the dread. The classroom wheel plus elimination mode means every student gets picked exactly once, and the wheel takes the blame instead of you.
Embed the wheel with one iframe and drive it from your page: load names, trigger spins, listen for winners. The API docs include copy ready snippets for every message.
Every wheel site says it is random. We are the one that lets you check. The lab runs the exact generator behind the wheel 500, 5,000 or 50,000 times in front of you, with your own names if you want, then shows the distribution, the longest streak and the chi square verdict. The statistics page aggregates every public run ever made here.
Eleven questions, eleven straight answers. The same words appear in the page markup and in the structured data, because an answer that changes depending on who is reading it is not an answer.
Everything on this page is live right now. Paste some names, pick a mode, and see why people stop arguing when the wheel starts spinning.
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