Frequently asked questions

My Decision Wheel is a free random decision maker. Type in a list of options — restaurants, student names, chores, prizes, yes/no — spin the wheel, and it picks one at random. People use it as a classroom name picker, to draw giveaway and raffle winners, to choose who goes first in a game, to pick what to eat, or to break any tie where every choice is acceptable and you just need to decide.

Type your options into the entries box next to the wheel, one per line, then click the wheel (or press the spacebar) to spin. You can bulk-paste a whole list at once, and each line becomes an entry. To change the colors, sounds, and spin time, open Customize at the top of the page.

Yes. My Decision Wheel does not use the ordinary Math.random() function. The winner is chosen with crypto.getRandomValues(), the cryptographically secure generator built into modern browsers, which draws on high-entropy sources from your operating system. The winner is picked before the wheel starts moving, and the animation simply spins to that result, so the outcome is genuinely unpredictable and cannot be influenced by where you release the spin.

Yes, and that is normal. Each spin is an independent event, exactly like flipping a fair coin — getting the same option twice does not mean the wheel is broken. If you want to make sure a winner is not picked again, use Remove winner after a spin, or turn on no-repeat or elimination mode in settings so used entries are set aside automatically.

Yes. My Decision Wheel is built local-first: your wheels, saved lists, spin history and preferences are stored in your own browser and are never uploaded to a server. There are no accounts and no sign-up. Optional anonymous analytics are off unless you accept them, and even then we never collect the text you type into wheels.

We do not set advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. The site uses your browser's local storage to remember your wheels and settings, which is strictly necessary for the tools to work. The first time you visit you can accept or decline optional anonymous analytics, and you can change that choice any time from the Cookie settings link in the footer.

Yes. The share button creates a short link — and a QR code — with your entire wheel configuration (entries, weights, colors and settings) encoded directly in the URL. Anyone who opens it lands in an exact copy of your wheel, ready to spin. Your spin history is never included in a share link.

Yes. Every entry can have a weight. An entry with weight 2 is twice as likely to win as one with weight 1, and its slice on the wheel is drawn twice as large. A live probability preview shows each option's exact chance as a percentage while you edit.

No. My Decision Wheel is free and works instantly with no sign-up, no login and no paywall. All features are available to everyone.

Yes. The wheel works in any modern mobile or desktop browser. Because everything runs locally and your wheels are saved on your device, you can keep using a wheel you have already opened even without a connection.

Remove takes the winner off the wheel after a spin. No-repeat stops the same entry from winning twice in a row without deleting it. Elimination spins repeatedly, removing each winner until a single option remains — handy for choosing one survivor from a long list. You can reset the removed entries at any time.