How to Use Wheel of Item

A 5-minute walkthrough that covers everything from your first spin to power-user tricks.

1. Building your first wheel

Open the main wheel page. You'll see an empty wheel and a text area for entering options. Type each option on its own line — for example:

The wheel updates as you type. The stats bar at the bottom shows how many prizes you've added and the total weight. There's no save button — your wheel is stored automatically in your browser's local storage.

Pasting a long list

You can paste a list copied from anywhere — a Google Sheets column, a notes app, a chat message. The site auto-splits on newlines. Empty lines are ignored.

2. Spinning the wheel

Click the big "SPIN!" button. The wheel rotates with momentum, slows down, and stops on a winning slice. The result is shown front-and-centre and added to the History panel.

The spin is genuinely random — every spin is independent of the last. There is no hidden weighting toward "interesting" results.

3. Weighting items (probability)

Sometimes you want certain options to come up more often. For example, if you're picking a dinner spot and you're craving sushi, you can give it a bigger slice.

Click an item to expand its options. Each item has a weight field — the default is 1. Set it to 3 and that item gets a slice three times the size of a default item. Total weight is shown in the stats bar, and each slice's percentage probability is shown on the wheel itself when "Show %" is toggled on.

How the math works

Each item's probability = (its weight) ÷ (total weight). So with five items at weight 1, every item has a 20% chance. Set one item's weight to 4, and the five total weights become 8 — that item is now 4/8 = 50%, while the others drop to 1/8 = 12.5% each.

4. Remove-on-win mode

Useful for giveaways, brackets, or any "no-repeat" draw. Toggle Remove on win on, and the winning item is automatically deleted from the wheel after each spin. Keep spinning until everyone is picked.

5. Sharing wheels via URL

This is the killer feature: your entire wheel — every item, weight, theme, and setting — is encoded into the URL itself. Click 🔗 Share this Wheel, copy the URL, and send it anywhere.

The person on the other end opens the link and sees the exact same wheel, ready to spin. Nothing is uploaded to a server. Nothing is saved on our side. The URL is the wheel.

Use cases

• Share a "what to eat tonight" wheel with your partner.
• Pin a "random Pokémon" wheel in your Discord server.
• Embed a giveaway wheel in a livestream description.
• Send a tournament bracket starter to your league chat.

6. Themes

Pick a visual theme to match the vibe of your wheel — sakura for fun, dark for streaming, minimal for office settings. Themes are cosmetic only; they don't affect the spin behavior. Your theme choice is saved per-wheel when you share via URL.

7. Languages

Wheel of Item has full UI translation in three languages: English, 日本語, ภาษาไทย. Switch using the language buttons at the bottom of the panel. Your preference is remembered for next time. The wheel items themselves render in whatever language you typed — Unicode and emoji are supported.

8. Font size and display options

If you've added 40 items, the labels on the wheel get cramped. Use the font-size slider to shrink them down. Toggle "Show %" to display probability percentages directly on the wheel slices — handy for transparency in draws.

9. History

Every spin you make is logged in the History panel below the wheel. It's per-browser (we don't sync history across devices). Use CLEAR to wipe it.

10. Privacy at a glance

None of your wheels, history, or settings leave your device unless you click Share. We don't have an account system. We don't store wheel contents on our servers. The Share URL is the only way data crosses to anyone else, and only because you sent it. Full details in our Privacy Policy.

What's next

Now that you know the controls, head over to the examples page for 10 ready-to-use wheel ideas with setup instructions, or just jump back to the wheel and start spinning.