SpinForge FAQ
Questions and answers about the spin the wheel picker. Everything it does happens in your browser.
Last Updated: November 9, 2026
1. General Questions
Q1: What is SpinForge?
A1: A wheel spinner for any choice: names, food, prizes, chores, teams or numbers. You type or paste the entries, spin the wheel, and it stops on the winner. Winners can stay on the wheel, be taken off, be knocked out until one is left, or score points in a race; some entries can have bigger chances; and you can make teams, keep many wheels, see every result and share a wheel as a link or a QR code.
Q2: How much does it cost?
A2: Nothing. It is free, with no registration and no limit. Like every page on ZeroDataUpload, it is supported by advertising.
Q3: Do I need to install anything or create an account?
A3: No. Open the page in any modern browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari or Opera) on a computer, tablet or phone. Your wheels are kept in that browser, so there is nothing to sign in to.
Q4: Is anything I type uploaded?
A4: No. The entries, wheels, pictures and results stay in this browser on your device and are never sent to a server. The page itself loads the site's ads and analytics, as every page on the site does; the Privacy Policy explains those, and your entries are never part of them.
Q5: Who is it for?
A5: Teachers picking a student or a question, friends deciding who pays or what to eat, families sharing out chores, shops and events running a prize wheel or a lucky draw, game nights, and anyone who wants a fair way to choose.
Q6: Does it work offline?
A6: Once the page has loaded, spinning works without the internet, since everything happens in the browser. The page is not installed as an app; opening it again needs a connection.
2. Fairness
Q7: Is the wheel fair?
A7: Yes. When you spin, SpinForge first picks the winner with your browser's secure random number generator, the one used for passwords and keys, giving every entry exactly its share: with eight equal entries, each has a 1 in 8 chance. The wheel then turns and stops at a random point inside that entry's slice.
Q8: Does a harder flick change who wins?
A8: No. How hard and which way you flick changes how long and in which direction the wheel spins, not the winner, which is picked as the spin starts. Pressing again to stop sooner keeps the same winner too: the wheel slows down faster and stops on the same spot.
Q9: Can the pointer stop on a line between two slices?
A9: No. The stopping point is kept at least 1.5 degrees or 4% of the slice from each edge, and very thin slices stop in their middle tenth, so it is always clear which entry won. The pointer reads the slice it stops on, and that is the result recorded.
Q10: The same name came up twice in a row. Is something wrong?
A10: No. A fair wheel has no memory, so repeats happen, and over many spins they happen often. Over hundreds of spins the counts settle close to the chances, which the Results tab shows. If nobody should be picked twice, choose "Is taken off the wheel" under Spin.
Q11: How was the fairness checked?
A11: Before this page was published, the picking was run 7.6 million times on 20 different wheels (equal entries from 2 to 1,000, and wheels with bigger chances from 0.25 to 1,000) and the counts were compared with the chances by a chi-square test; none was out of line. The stopping point was checked on 20,000 wheels with up to 1,000 slices: it always landed inside the picked slice.
3. Entries and Chances
Q12: How do I add many entries at once?
A12: Paste them into the box under the list, one per line, or open the text editor (the lines button above the list) and type or paste them there. Each line becomes an entry; blank lines are skipped. A wheel holds up to 1,000 entries of up to 200 characters each.
Q13: How do I keep an entry but leave it off the wheel?
A13: Untick its box. It stays in the list, crossed out, and comes back when you tick it again. The three dots above the list can switch every entry on or off at once.
Q14: How do bigger chances work?
A14: Switch on "Some entries get a bigger chance" under Spin. Each entry then gets a number box: 2 makes it twice as likely as 1, and 0.5 half as likely. Numbers go from 0.01 to 1,000 in steps of 0.01. Each entry's share is written beside it, and the slices grow to match, so the wheel always shows the real chances.
Q15: Can I set chances in the text editor?
A15: Yes. Put a space, a star and a number after an entry: "Pizza *3" gives Pizza three times the chance of an entry without a number. The number is used when bigger chances are switched on.
Q16: Can an entry have its own colour or a picture?
A16: Yes. Click the coloured square beside it to choose a colour from the wheel's set, any colour, or the wheel's own colours again, and to add a picture. The picture is cut to a square, made small and kept on this device; it shows on the slice and with the winner.
Q17: How do I fill a wheel with numbers or letters?
A17: Open the three dots above the list and choose "Fill with numbers or letters". Type the first number, the last and the step (up to 1,000 numbers), and choose whether to replace the entries or add to them, or press "Letters A to Z instead".
Q18: How do I make teams?
A18: Open the three dots above the list and choose "Make teams". Choose the number of teams or the number of people per team, and press Make teams. The ticked entries are shuffled and dealt out so the team sizes differ by at most one. Copy puts the teams on the clipboard.
4. Spinning and Game Modes
Q19: How do I spin?
A19: Press Spin, click the middle of the wheel, press Space or Enter, or flick the wheel with a finger or the mouse. A quick tap on the wheel spins it too. Press again while it turns to stop it sooner.
Q20: What can happen to the winner?
A20: Choose under Spin: it stays on the wheel (every spin is a fresh pick), it is taken off the wheel (nobody is picked twice), it is knocked out (the last one left wins), or it scores a point (the first to reach the number of wins you set, from 1 to 50, wins the game).
Q21: Can everyone get a turn before anyone goes twice?
A21: Yes. Choose "Is taken off the wheel" and switch on "Start a new round when everyone has been picked". When the last entry has been picked, everyone goes back on the wheel for the next round.
Q22: How do I put a picked entry back?
A22: Press "Put it back" in the pop-up, click the small "picked" or "out" label beside the entry, or use "Put everyone back" under the wheel or in the three dots menu. Ctrl + Z also undoes taking an entry off or removing one.
Q23: Can I pick several winners at once?
A23: Yes. Set "Spins in a row" under Spin, up to 20. The wheel spins that many times one after another and lists every pick; with "Is taken off the wheel" they are all different.
Q24: Can I change how long it spins?
A24: Yes, from 1 to 20 seconds with "Spin length". If your device asks for reduced motion, every spin is short whatever the setting, and there is no confetti.
Q25: Can I show the winner more quietly?
A25: Yes. Under "Showing the winner", choose "Under the wheel" instead of the big pop-up, and switch confetti off. The winner then appears in a line under the wheel.
5. Look and Sound
Q26: What can I change about the look?
A26: Under Look: twelve sets of colours, the rim (lights, gold, thin or none), the lettering (round, plain, classic or heavy), what sits in the middle (Spin, your own word of up to 12 characters, a picture or nothing), a little light and shade on the slices, and whether the wheel's name shows above it.
Q27: What is the mystery wheel?
A27: Every slice shows a question mark instead of its entry, so nobody knows where the prizes are until the wheel stops and the winner is revealed.
Q28: What sounds are there?
A28: A click, wood or pop sound each time a peg passes the pointer, a drum roll while it spins if you like, and a fanfare, applause, bell or ta-da for the winner. All are made in the browser. The speaker button above the wheel, or the M key, turns sound off and on. Sound settings apply to every wheel.
Q29: Can it read the winner out loud?
A29: Yes, with "Say the winner out loud" under Spin, using a voice that runs on this device. Online voices, which would send the name to their maker, are never used; if the device has no voice of its own, SpinForge says so and shows the winner only.
Q30: Can I use it full screen on a projector?
A30: Yes. Press the full screen button above the wheel or F. The wheel fills the screen with its name above it; press Esc or the button again to leave.
6. Wheels, Results and Sharing
Q31: Can I keep more than one wheel?
A31: Yes, up to 300. The Wheels tab lists them with the one open now marked; each has a menu to open, rename, copy, share or delete it (deleting can be undone straight away). New wheel starts an empty one, and 24 ready-made wheels in five groups are there to start from.
Q32: What does the Results tab show?
A32: Every spin of the open wheel, newest first, with its time, and a table of how often each entry came up next to the chance it has now. Copy puts the list on the clipboard and "Spreadsheet (CSV)" saves it as a file. Each wheel keeps its last 1,000 spins.
Q33: How do I share a wheel?
A33: Press the share button above the wheel, or Share in a wheel's menu. You get a link and, when the link is short enough, a QR code. The whole wheel travels inside the link, in the part after #, which the browser never sends to a server. Pictures stay on your device. On a phone, "Send with" opens the phone's own share sheet.
Q34: What happens when someone opens a shared link?
A34: The page takes the wheel out of the address as it opens and shows a note: "Open it" adds a copy to their wheels, "Not now" leaves it. Changes they make do not reach your wheel.
Q35: Can I save a picture of the wheel?
A35: Yes. The picture button above the wheel saves a PNG of the wheel as it stands, 1,080 pixels across, with its name above it when the name is shown.
Q36: How do I move my wheels to another device?
A36: Press Backup on the Wheels tab to save every wheel and your sound settings to a file, then press Restore on the other device and choose the file. Restoring adds the wheels; ones that are already there are skipped.
Q37: How do I remove everything?
A37: Delete everything, on the Wheels tab, removes every wheel, result and setting SpinForge keeps in this browser and starts again with one ready-made wheel. The rest of the site is left alone. Make a backup first if you may want them back.
Still have a question?
The help page walks through every part of the wheel. For anything else, use the contact form.