SpinForge Help Documentation

A complete guide to the spin the wheel picker, from the first entry to sharing a wheel.

Last Updated: November 9, 2026

1. Getting Started

SpinForge opens with a ready-made wheel, "What is for dinner?", so you can spin straight away. The tabs choose Wheel (the wheel and its settings), Results (every spin) and Wheels (your wheels and the ready-made ones). On a computer the wheel is on the left and the panel with Entries, Spin and Look on the right; on a phone the panel comes under the wheel.

The wheel's name is above it; click it to change it. Beside the name are four buttons: sound on or off, share, save a picture, and full screen. The line at the top of the tool says how many entries are on the wheel and what happens to a winner.

2. Adding and Editing Entries

• Add: type in the box under the list and press Enter (or Add); the box stays ready for the next one. Pasting several lines adds them all.
• Edit: click an entry's words and type. Enter or the down arrow moves to the next entry, the up arrow to the one before. An entry left empty is removed, and Backspace in an empty entry removes it too.
• On or off: the tick box keeps an entry on the wheel or leaves it off without deleting it.
• Colour and picture: the coloured square opens a window with the wheel's colours, "Any colour", "Wheel colours" (back to the set) and a picture, which is cut to a square and kept small on this device.
• Remove: the cross removes an entry; the message that follows has Undo.
• Above the list: shuffle the order, sort A to Z (press again for Z to A), the text editor, and the three dots: Make teams, Fill with numbers or letters, Put everyone back, switch every entry on or off, Remove repeats, Save the entries as a text file, and Clear all entries.
• Text editor: one entry per line; the wheel follows as you type. "Pizza *3" gives Pizza three times the chance. Colours and pictures stay with the entries whose words you keep.

A wheel holds up to 1,000 entries of up to 200 characters each.

3. Spinning the Wheel

Press Spin, click the middle of the wheel, press Space or Enter, or flick the wheel: press on it, swing it round and let go. A harder flick spins longer, and the wheel turns the way you flicked it. A quick tap on the wheel spins it as well. Press again while it turns to stop it sooner; it slows down smoothly and stops on the same winner.

The winner is picked by your browser's secure random number generator as the spin starts, each entry with exactly its share. The wheel then stops at a random point inside that entry's slice, never on a line. While it turns, pegs tick past the pointer and the rim's lights chase round. Edits made while it spins are drawn when it stops.

Under Spin, Spin length sets 1 to 20 seconds and Pointer puts the pointer at the top, right, bottom or left. If your device asks for reduced motion, every spin is short and there is no confetti.

4. What Happens to the Winner

Under Spin, "After a spin, the winner":

• Stays on the wheel: every spin is a fresh pick.
• Is taken off the wheel: for raffles, turns and prizes, so nobody is picked twice. Switch on "Start a new round when everyone has been picked" to put everyone back when the last one is picked.
• Is knocked out: last one standing. Each spin knocks one out, and the last entry left wins.
• Scores a point: a race. The first entry picked the number of times you set under "Wins needed" (1 to 50) wins; the scores show under the wheel.

A picked entry shows a small "picked" or "out" label in the list; click it to put the entry back. "Put everyone back" sits under the wheel and in the three dots menu. After a game ends, the next spin starts a new one.

5. Spins in a Row

"Spins in a row" (1 to 20) picks several in one go: the wheel spins, shows the pick for a moment and spins again. The first spin has your spin length, the next ones at most 3 seconds. With "Is taken off the wheel" every pick is different. The pop-up lists all the picks.

6. Bigger Chances

Switch on "Some entries get a bigger chance" under Spin. Each entry gets a number box and its share beside it: 2 is twice as likely as 1, 0.5 half as likely. Numbers go from 0.01 to 1,000, kept to two decimals. The slices grow to match, so the wheel always shows the real chances. Switching it off makes every entry equal again without losing the numbers.

An entry's share is its number divided by the total of the numbers of the entries on the wheel: with 2, 1 and 1, the shares are 50%, 25% and 25%.

7. The Winner's Pop-up

When the wheel stops, the winning slice lights up and a pop-up shows the winner and its picture; in the plain game it also gives the chance it had ("A 1 in 8 chance") and how many times it has been picked so far, and in the other games how many are left or the score. Its buttons depend on the game: Spin again, Take it off the wheel, Put it back, or Play again when a game is won. Esc or a click outside closes it. Under "Showing the winner" you can choose Under the wheel instead, and switch confetti off.

8. Colours, Rim, Letters and the Middle

• Colours: twelve sets: Carnival, Sunset, Holi, Diwali, Ocean, Forest, Pastel, Neon, Casino, Royal blue, Earth and Rainbow. A set's colours never repeat on neighbouring slices. "Use these for every slice" removes the entries' own colours.
• Rim: lights (they twinkle, chase while it spins and flash for the winner), gold, thin or none.
• Letters: round, plain, classic or heavy. Words grow to fill their slice, break over up to three lines in wide slices and end in three dots when they cannot fit.
• Middle: Spin, your own word or emoji (up to 12 characters), a picture cut to a circle, or plain.
• Extras: shine (light and shade on the slices), the mystery wheel (question marks until the winner is revealed) and the wheel's name above it.

9. Sound and Reading Aloud

Under Spin, "Sound": the pegs click, knock like wood, pop or stay silent; a drum roll can play while it spins; the winner gets a fanfare, applause, a bell, a ta-da or no sound (Play tries it); and the volume. Every sound is made in the browser. "Say the winner out loud" reads the winner with a voice that runs on this device; online voices are never used, and if the device has none, SpinForge says so. Entries in Hindi or Gujarati script are read only when the device has a voice for that language. The speaker button above the wheel or M turns all sound off and on. Sound settings apply to every wheel.

10. Full Screen and Saving a Picture

The full screen button (or F) fills the screen with the wheel and its name, for a projector or a party; Esc or the button leaves it. The picture button saves a PNG of the wheel as it stands, 1,080 pixels across, on the page's background, with the name above it when the name is shown.

11. Making Teams

Three dots, Make teams. Choose "Number of teams" or "People per team" and the number, then press Make teams. The ticked entries are shuffled and dealt out so the team sizes differ by at most one; press again for a new draw. Copy puts the teams on the clipboard, one line per team.

12. Filling with Numbers or Letters

Three dots, Fill with numbers or letters. Type From, To and Step; the line underneath shows the numbers before you fill. Up to 1,000 numbers; counting down works when To is below From. Decimals follow the start and the step (1 to 2 in steps of 0.25 gives 1.00, 1.25 and so on). Choose "Replace the entries" or "Add to them", or press "Letters A to Z instead". A new game starts and Undo is offered.

13. Results

The Results tab shows the open wheel's spins: the number of spins, how many different results, the most frequent and the last. "How often each came up" lists each entry with its count, a bar for its share of the spins and a line for the chance it has now; over many spins the bars come close to the lines. "Every spin, newest first" lists them with their times (200 at first, then "Show all"). Copy and Spreadsheet (CSV) take the list with you; Clear empties it (with Undo). Each wheel keeps its last 1,000 spins.

14. Your Wheels and the Ready-made Ones

The Wheels tab lists your wheels, the most recently used first, with the open one marked. Click one to open it; its menu can open, rename, copy, share or delete it (deleting offers Undo). New wheel starts an empty one. Up to 300 wheels are kept.

The 24 ready-made wheels come in five groups: Quick decisions (yes or no, heads or tails, who pays, the order), Food, Fun and games (truth or dare, a prize wheel, last one standing, first to three), Home and class (chores, a workout, pick a student) and Numbers and letters (a lucky draw from 1 to 100, dice, 1 to 10, A to Z, days of the week). Clicking one makes your own copy to change.

15. Sharing a Wheel

The share button above the wheel, or Share in a wheel's menu, makes a link with the whole wheel inside it: entries, chances, colours, which are on, and the settings (not the pictures). The wheel rides in the part of the link after #, which the browser never sends to a server. Copy the link, scan the QR code (shown when the link fits in one) or press "Send with" on a phone. Whoever opens it sees "A wheel was shared with you" and can add a copy with Open it; the page takes the wheel out of the address as it opens.

16. Backup, Restore and Delete Everything

Backup saves every wheel (with its results and pictures) and your sound settings to a file. Restore adds the wheels from such a file, skipping ones already here; it also opens a wheel saved by the earlier one-file SpinForge. Files over 20 MB are refused. Delete everything 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. Nothing is saved on a first visit until you change something.

17. Keyboard Shortcuts

Inside the tool and outside a text box (or with nothing selected while the wheel is on screen): Space or Enter spins and, while it turns, stops it sooner; F full screen; M sound off and on; Ctrl + Z undoes taking an entry off, removing one or clearing. ← and → move between the tabs. Elsewhere on the page Space scrolls as usual.

18. How It Was Checked

Before this page was published, the engine behind the wheel was checked against references written from the rules on this page, with the test values made first: more than 9 million cases in 16 groups. They include 7.6 million picks on 20 wheels compared with their chances by a chi-square test; 20,000 wheels with up to 1,000 slices on which the wheel always stopped inside the picked slice, also after stopping sooner; lists typed in many ways; number lists; teams; results and scores; saved wheels, backups and links made to break the tool; spreadsheet cells; and share links in QR codes read by two independent readers. The page was then tried in a browser at four screen widths in both themes, by mouse, keyboard and touch.

19. Troubleshooting

• The wheel will not spin. It needs at least two entries on the wheel (one when winners are taken off). If everyone has been picked, put everyone back.
• No sound. Check the speaker button above the wheel and the volume; browsers allow sound only after you have pressed or tapped something on the page.
• The winner is not read aloud. This device or browser has no voice of its own for that language; SpinForge does not use online voices.
• The share has no QR code. The wheel is too big for a QR code; send the link instead, or make the entries shorter.
• "This browser has run out of room to save." Pictures take the most room: remove some, delete old wheels, or make a backup and start again.
• My wheels are gone. They are kept per browser and device; a private window or cleared browser data starts afresh. Restore a backup to bring them back.

20. Support

For questions the FAQ does not answer, use the contact form.