About Wheel Cue
A free wheel spinner built around one idea: a random pick is only useful if people believe it.
What this is
Wheel Cue is a free online wheel spinner and random picker. You add choices, spin, and get one result. There is no account, no sign-up and no limit on how many times you can spin.
There are a lot of tools that do this. The reason this one exists is the part most of them skip: explaining how the result was chosen.
Every spin here shows its working. Open How this result was picked in any result window and you get the raw random number that was drawn, the threshold used to remove bias, how many draws were discarded, and the arithmetic that turned that number into a slice. The odds are on screen before you spin, and the exact probability of the winner is on screen after.
None of that matters for picking a pizza topping. It matters a lot for a giveaway, a classroom, a fundraiser or anything where somebody might reasonably ask how the result was reached.
How it is built
Some deliberate choices, because they affect how the site behaves:
Everything runs in your browser. Names, entries, saved wheels and results never leave your device. There is no server-side storage, because there is no server doing anything beyond sending you the page.
The randomness is cryptographic. crypto.getRandomValues(), not Math.random(), with rejection sampling to remove modulo bias. The full explanation has the code.
The winner is chosen before the animation. The spin is aimed at a result that already exists, so no rendering quirk can affect it.
The pages are static HTML. Every tool is a real page at a real URL, readable without JavaScript running, which is why they load quickly on a school Chromebook or a phone on a bad connection.
The client-side code is unminified. /assets/js/random.js is about a hundred commented lines and contains every random draw the site makes. You are meant to be able to read it.
What we do not do
A short list, because what a tool refuses to do says as much as what it does:
- No invented statistics. Wheel Cue is new. You will not find "10 million spins" anywhere on this site, because we have not had 10 million spins. When there are numbers worth citing, we will cite real ones.
- No fake reviews or testimonials. There is no aggregate rating in our structured data for the same reason.
- No "provably fair" badge. It would not be true. Everything runs on your device, and no client-side tool can prove anything to a third party. What we can and cannot claim sets out the limits.
- No account required. Nothing is gated behind a sign-up.
- No student data collection. Rosters typed into the classroom tools stay in the browser.
Who builds it
Wheel Cue is a small independent project, not a company. It is built and maintained by one person.
That is worth stating plainly rather than writing "our team" and implying otherwise. It means the site is straightforward, it means bugs get fixed when they are reported, and it means there is no roadmap driven by anything except what people ask for.
The changelog lists what has shipped. If something is broken, missing or worded badly, get in touch — that is the main way this gets better.