Wheel of Names

A wheel of names for classrooms, raffles, and giveaways

Paste a list of names, spin the wheel, and let it land on one lucky person. The wheel of names is the friendliest way to make a random choice in front of a group, because everyone can watch it happen. There's no hidden algorithm to distrust and no teacher's pet to suspect — the wheel turns, slows, and stops on a name in plain sight. That transparency is exactly why teachers, club leaders, and event hosts reach for it.

Built for the classroom

Cold-calling students keeps a class engaged, but always picking the same hands (or always avoiding the quiet ones) isn't fair. Drop your whole roster onto the wheel and let it choose who answers, who reads next, or who lines up first. After each pick you can remove that student so everyone gets a turn before any name repeats — an easy way to run a full rotation without keeping a tally on paper.

Perfect for raffles and giveaways

Running a prize draw at a meeting, a stream, or a community event? Type or paste the entrant list, spin, and announce the winner live. Removing each winner lets you draw first, second, and third place in order from the same pool. Because the draw is visible and instant, entrants trust the outcome far more than a name pulled from a hat off-camera.

How to use the wheel of names

• Add names: one per line. Copy-paste straight from a spreadsheet column or a sign-up sheet.
• Spin: tap the button or the wheel; it eases to a stop and shows the winner.
• Remove & continue: drop the chosen name and keep drawing for the next pick.
• Reuse: the list stays put between spins, so you can run the same roster all class long.

No spreadsheets, no tally marks

The old way to keep picks fair was a list with checkmarks, or popsicle sticks in a cup that you had to remember to set aside. The wheel of names replaces all of that. Paste the roster once at the start of the day and it stays loaded between spins, so you can call on students through every lesson without resetting anything. Remove names as you go and the wheel shrinks to just the people still waiting for a turn — the tally keeps itself, right on screen, where the whole class can see it's being done fairly.

Fair every single time

Each name occupies an identical slice, so a class of 30 gives every student a true 1-in-30 chance on each spin. The result is generated by your browser's random number generator, not by slice position or list order. Your roster never leaves your device — nothing is uploaded — and the tool is free with no sign-up. Need to pick a single winner instead of running a rotation? The random name picker is framed for exactly that, and the random team generator splits the same list into balanced teams.