Let the wheel choose, in front of everyone.
Put a spinning wheel on your slide and stop being the one who decides. Use your own list, or let the room fill it from their phones — then spin it together, on the big screen, with one result everybody sees at the same moment.
How it works
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Fill the wheel
Type the options yourself, or let the room add them from their phones — names, ideas, whatever is being decided.
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Spin it on the big screen
One press. Everyone watches the same wheel turn and stop, because the result is decided once, on the server, and sent to every screen.
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Keep going, without repeats
Turn on “remove each result” and the wheel shrinks as it goes, so everybody gets a turn and nobody gets two.
Why a wheel beats picking someone
Choosing a name out loud puts you in the room’s politics: whoever you pick was picked by you, and whoever you skip noticed. A wheel takes that away. Nobody argues with a wheel, which is most of the reason it works.
It also gives a room something to watch together. A decision made in the presenter’s head is invisible; the same decision made by a wheel on the big screen is three seconds of shared attention and a small, real reaction — which is the currency of a session that people stay awake in.
The version that needs a room, rather than a browser tab, is the one the audience fills. Everyone adds a name, an idea, or a team name from their phone, and the wheel that turns is the room’s wheel. That is a different thing from a spinner you loaded beforehand, and it is the only version that could not have been done on paper.
FAQ
Spin the Wheel, explained
Can the audience add options to the wheel?
Yes. Choose “the room” when you create the wheel and it starts empty — everyone scans the QR code and adds up to three options from their phone. It is the difference between a spinner and an activity: the room builds the wheel, then watches it choose.
Can the same option be picked twice?
Only if you want it to be. Turn on “remove each result” and every option that comes up is taken off the wheel, so a round of “who goes next” gives everybody exactly one turn. Leave it off and the wheel stays whole.
Is the result actually random?
The draw happens once, on our server, and the result is sent to every screen — the big screen, your laptop, and every phone in the room. The spinning is the animation catching up with an answer that already exists, which is also why nobody can rig it from a browser console.
Do participants need an app or an account?
No. They scan a QR code or open a link and the wheel loads in their phone's browser. Nothing to install and no sign-up.
How many options can a wheel hold?
Up to a hundred, though a wheel that big is hard to read across a room. A handful of names is where it works best — and if you want to build the list before your session, the free decision wheel tool does the same job on paper.
How many people can join?
The Free plan supports up to 50 participants per live activity, Pro raises that to 150, and Badass supports up to 300 — enough for a full classroom or an all-hands.
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