Guides
Guides
How the randomness works, and how to run the draws people actually care about getting right.
How Wheel Cue Picks a Random Winner
The random source, the bias fix, and a test you can run.
Weighted Random Picking, Explained
What a *3 multiplier really does to the odds.
Selection With and Without Replacement
Why removing a winner changes everyone's odds.
Random vs Pseudorandom
What the words mean, and which one a wheel needs.
How to Pick a Giveaway Winner
A draw process an audience will accept.
How to Run a Random Raffle
Draw tickets in front of a room, properly.
How to Pick Students Randomly
Getting the random-calling routine right.
How to Split People Into Random Teams
Group sizes, leftovers and when to intervene.
Start with fairness
If you only read one of these, read how Wheel Cue picks a random winner. It sets out the random source, why some draws are discarded, why the animation cannot change the outcome, and — just as importantly — what a tool running in your own browser cannot prove to anyone else.
There is a 10,000-draw simulation on that page that runs through exactly the same code a real spin uses, so you can check the distribution yourself rather than taking our word for it.