Wheel Cue
Halloween wheel: costumes & party games

Changelog

Everything that has shipped, newest first. Wheel Cue launched in September 2026.

Version 1.11 — Six new Idea Wheel lists

  • The Idea Wheel has six new lists: 3D Halloween nails, granny square crochet tops, southwestern bathroom ideas, subtle hair colors, white dresses and Thanksgiving dishes.
  • As on the other lists, every slice looks like what it names: raised gel on a nail, crochet stitches, terracotta and copper, strands of hair, lace and satin, food you can almost taste.

Version 1.10 — Idea Wheel: more ideas, real textures

  • The Idea Wheel lists are longer: twelve fall nail looks, twelve plaid sweater outfits, twelve no-carve pumpkins and ten couples costumes.
  • Every slice on the Idea Wheel looks like the thing it names, with light and shade: glossy polish, knitted wool, leather, gold leaf, velvet, foam, chocolate.
  • The Idea Wheel lists can no longer be edited, so every slice keeps its look. To spin your own list, use the decision wheel.

Version 1.9 — The Idea Wheel

  • The Idea Wheel has five lists of ideas to spin: fall nail looks, plaid sweater outfits, no-carve pumpkins, afternoon snacks and couples costumes, each with tips for every idea.
  • A list can now bring its own colors: each list on the Idea Wheel paints the wheel in its palette, with light labels on dark slices.

Version 1.8 — Send a whole class list

  • A wheel you send now holds up to 40 entries, up from 20, so most class lists fit in one link. The limit of 1,000 characters is unchanged.
  • On wheels with more than 20 slices the names are drawn bigger, about 1.4 times at 40, so a full class list is easier to read on a phone.
  • The Google Classroom button now checks the link first. Classroom takes links of up to 2,024 characters, and a long list full of emoji, accented or non-Latin letters can make a longer one.

Version 1.7 — Halloween and Thanksgiving wheels

  • The Halloween wheel has five lists: costume ideas, party games, trick-or-treat challenges with treats that are not food, spooky story starters for writing time, and a pretend candy bag for a math lesson on chance, with nothing to eat. Every list is friendly enough for a classroom.
  • The Thanksgiving wheel decides who brings what to the potluck, hands out the kitchen jobs, and has gratitude questions and after-dinner games. Put the guests' names on it and send it to the family group chat before the first spin.
  • The wheel for the next holiday now has its own place: in the menu on a computer, and in a strip under the header on a phone. It changes with the calendar.
  • An embedded wheel now shows the winner in the middle of the wheel as soon as it stops, as well as in the line underneath.
  • The Halloween wheel now looks like a carved jack-o'-lantern.

Version 1.6 — Privacy, terms and share links

  • The privacy policy has been rewritten. It names the person responsible for the site, and says what our web host, Cloudflare, processes to deliver and protect pages, including its automated security check, and how visits are counted without cookies (not inside embedded wheels).
  • The terms of use have been updated: who runs the site, raffles and prize draws, trademarks, your statutory rights as a consumer, liability and governing law.
  • Links made with Send this wheel now carry the wheel after a "#", a part of the address browsers never send to a server, so opening a link no longer sends its list anywhere. Older links still open, and the list moves after the "#" as soon as the page loads.
  • When advertising starts, there will be none on the pages made for students, on the embed builder, on any wheel opened from a link, or inside embedded wheels.
  • Raffle and giveaway pages carry a notice on the rules for prize draws, and the raffle guide no longer talks only about US states: selling raffle tickets is regulated almost everywhere.
  • Accessibility: small text, the green labels and the purple buttons now meet the WCAG AA contrast ratio in both themes, and the result window announces the winner, keeps the keyboard inside it and returns focus when it closes. The accessibility statement has been revised to match.

Version 1.5 — Send a wheel to your class

  • The send window has two new buttons, Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, that open the wheel's link ready to post to a class (Teams on a computer, in Chrome or Edge). Each student then spins the wheel on their own device.
  • The Research section has an RSS feed, so new studies reach your feed reader on the day they come out.

Version 1.4 — Corrections, and embedding from the menu

  • Correction: the raffle wheel and giveaway picker pages said a typed range such as 101-150 is expanded into separate tickets. It is not: it stays a single entry. The raffle wheel page now shows how to write a book out quickly, up to 200 numbers at a time.
  • Correction: the random team generator page overstated how many ways 16 people can be split into 4 teams of 4. The right figure is 63,063,000.
  • The two-stage draw for big raffle books (a block, then a ticket) now explains how to weight the blocks so later prizes stay fair, and the raffle guide says to check your state's rules before selling tickets for a school or charity raffle.
  • The bars in the in-page simulators, on the research pages and in the fairness test of how randomness works, were drawn with no width. They now show.
  • Embed a wheel is now in the main menu on every page, and the send box under each wheel has a button for it.

Version 1.3 — Put a wheel on your own website

  • The embed builder turns a wheel of up to 100 entries into a few lines of code for Google Sites, blogs, class pages and learning platforms. Visitors spin it right on the page, with the same random code as this site.
  • Every wheel's send box now links to the builder with that wheel already loaded.
  • An embedded wheel holds up to 100 entries, and can take each winner off as it is drawn.

Version 1.2 — Send a wheel, front and center — and a Research section

  • Sending a wheel is now the main action on every page that has one: an invitation at the top, and a send box under the wheel that walks through the three steps — customize the list, send the link, and your friends spin it on their phones.
  • A new Research section: studies of how randomness behaves in classrooms, giveaways and games, built on simulations that run real draws through the site's own random code. Every study publishes its script and its raw results.
  • The first study measures how many spins it takes before everyone gets a turn when winners stay on the wheel.
  • The random list picker is now part of the random name picker, which takes any list. The old address redirects.
  • The About page now explains how the research is made and how corrections are handled.
  • Fixed: in fullscreen the result window now appears over the wheel, and the spacebar keeps spinning after the first result.
  • Fixed: Remove the winner after each spin now takes off entries that end in a number, such as "Max2" or "Alex 2", which it could miss before; and with Weighted choices on, such names are no longer mistaken for weights (write Name x3 with a space, or Name *3).

Version 1.1 — Send a wheel, and fewer but fuller templates

  • Send a wheel on WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger, Instagram, TikTok, X or by email, with an optional question. Whoever opens the link spins it for their own result, and Share result sends back what came up.
  • Shared wheels hold up to 20 entries and 1,000 characters, which keeps every link short enough for messaging apps to carry intact.
  • The twenty templates are now eight fuller pages, most with several ready-made lists. The old template addresses redirect to the page that absorbed them.
  • A single How Wheel Cue works page explains entries, weights, saving, sharing and fullscreen, instead of every page repeating it.
  • A fairness report publishes the results of millions of draws through the site's own random code, with the script to re-run it.

Version 1.0 — Wheel Cue launches

  • Wheel spinner with up to 500 entries, weighted choices and remove-after-spin.
  • Cryptographic randomness via crypto.getRandomValues(), with rejection sampling to remove modulo bias.
  • Per-spin verification: every result window shows the raw draw, the rejection limit, the discard count and the arithmetic that selected the winner.
  • Thirteen dedicated tools, including a team generator that deals groups rather than spinning names one at a time.
  • Twenty ready-to-spin templates with hand-written entry lists.
  • Fullscreen presentation mode, driven by the spacebar for use with a clicker.
  • Save wheels to the browser and share them by link, with no account and no server-side storage.
  • Results log with clipboard export as a table, including probabilities and timestamps.
  • Light and dark themes, reduced-motion support and keyboard operation throughout.
  • A fairness page with a 10,000-draw simulation that runs through the same code path a real spin uses.

What's next

Roughly in order. This is a list of intentions, not promises with dates on them — what gets built next is mostly decided by what people ask for.

  • Image entries, so a wheel can show pictures rather than text.
  • A results view that survives a page reload.
  • More classroom templates, driven by what people ask for.
  • Additional languages, once the English copy has settled.

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