Start from a list that already works
Staring at an empty entry box is the hardest part. The ready-made wheels exist to skip it. Open the what to eat wheel on a night when nobody wants to decide, or the weekend activity wheel for a free Saturday, and delete whatever is impossible today. A wheel that is trimmed to your real options feels fairer than one that makes you reject a result.
Every wheel opens in the same editor as the main spinner. Change the wording, add your own entries one per line, and use Copy link to keep your version. The ready-made list itself stays as it was.
How many entries to use
For a wheel people will watch, six to twelve entries is the sweet spot. Each slice is wide enough to read, and the spin still has some tension. The date night wheel and the what to eat wheel each hold twelve ideas for that reason.
Longer lists are better handled in another way. The US states wheel has all fifty, which is fine for a geography game because you will turn on remove the winner and work through them one at a time, but you would not want fifty slices as a way to decide on dinner. If you need to cut a big list, spin twice: the first spin picks a category, the second picks an item.
Use weights for what you really want
Put *2 after the entries you would be happy to get. On the date night wheel, a couple who both love a picnic dinner can write Picnic dinner *2, which gives it double the share without hiding the other ideas. Weights suit decisions where you have preferences but still enjoy a bit of surprise.
The result shows the chance of the winning entry, so nobody has to wonder whether the wheel leaned a particular way. If you share the link with others, tell them which entries are weighted and why.
Stop repeats where repeats hurt
The chore wheel, the brain break wheel and the ice breaker questions wheel all have no repeats switched on, because getting the same chore or the same question twice in a row defeats the point. Everyone once before anyone twice keeps every entry on the wheel but makes each wait its turn.
Use remove the winner when the list is a finite supply, such as the classroom jobs wheel at the start of a week, a set of random countries to visit in a geography lesson, or a stack of questions that should each be asked once.
Wheels for class and meetings
A teacher's wheel works because it moves the choice away from the teacher. The classroom jobs wheel hands out roles without arguments, the reading questions wheel gives a discussion a starting point for any book, and the brain break wheel offers one-minute movement ideas that need no equipment. Present mode strips the page down so the projector shows the wheel and nothing else.
For adults, the ice breaker questions wheel suits the first five minutes of a meeting. The questions are light and nobody has to share anything personal. When you need people rather than prompts, the name picker or the student picker will choose them with the same fairness.
Wheels for parties and families
Game nights go better when no single person decides what comes next. The charades wheel lists easy things to act out, the would you rather wheel offers silly dilemmas for car rides, and the family-friendly truth or dare wheel keeps the questions gentle. Swap any entry that does not suit your group; you know your guests better than we do.
Add your own inside jokes, pet names and house rules. A wheel made of things your family laughs about will be used more than any generic list.
Wheels for learning and creativity
The random country wheel shows the capital and continent in a table, which turns each spin into a mini lesson. The random animal wheel and the drawing prompts wheel are good for art and writing: spin twice and combine the results, such as a flamingo and an ice cream shop on the moon, for a harder challenge. The random color wheel lists hex codes for design warm-ups.
Build your own for any subject. Vocabulary words, historical figures, science terms or practice questions all work, and a quick import from a text file saves typing.
Make your own and keep it
When you have edited a wheel, Save on this device adds it to My wheels, and Copy link gives an address that holds the whole wheel. Send that address to a colleague or the family chat and they get their own editable copy.
If you want a guide to building from scratch, the how-to page walks through it, and the main spinner is always one click away.