Spin The Wheels Blog

Plain-English guides to running fair draws and fun games: gift exchanges, classroom and party games, coin tosses in sport, and what makes a random pick fair. Every guide links to its sources.

Holidays & Culture

Holidays & CultureMonito Monita Guide: Rules, Budgets and Weekly Themes for Your Exchange GiftHow Monito Monita works: draw names in secret, agree a budget, run weekly "something" themes and reveal at the Christmas party. A clear plan for school, office and family groups.

Holidays & CultureHow to Organize Secret Santa at Work: Budget, Rules and a Fair DrawA simple plan for an office Secret Santa: opt-in sign-up, one fixed budget, a private draw with exclusions, safe gift ideas and a plan for remote colleagues.

Holidays & CultureChristmas Party Games You Can Run With a Spin WheelTen Christmas party games for the office, classroom and family that run on a spin wheel: charades, Christmas bingo, gift-opening order, movie picks, quick challenges and more.

Classroom

Classroom12 Classroom Games With a Spin Wheel (Ready for Tomorrow's Lesson)Twelve ways teachers use a spin wheel in class: fair cold-calling, review games, letter and number games, brain breaks, story starters and classroom jobs. Free, no sign-up.

ClassroomHow to Make Fair Random Groups in Class (Without the Same Teams Every Time)Practical ways to make fair random groups in class: shuffle and split, balance mixed groups, avoid repeat pairings, and handle odd numbers and absences – with a free team generator.

Fairness & Odds

Fairness & OddsCan a Spin Wheel Be Rigged? How to Tell If an Online Wheel Is FairYes, online wheels can be rigged with hidden weights or preset winners. How to check a wheel is fair, why Math.random is not the gold standard, and how to run a spin people trust.

Fairness & OddsIs a Coin Flip Really 50/50? What Research Says About Heads or TailsA study of 350,757 coin flips found heads and tails equally likely – but coins landed on the side they started 50.8% of the time. What the research says, and how to make a toss fair.

Fairness & OddsIs the Temu Spin Wheel Legit? What Temu's Terms and EU Regulators SayWhat Temu's own Terms of Use say about rewards from games like its spin wheel, what the EU consumer authorities said about its 'spin the fortune wheel' in 2024, and what to check before you spin.

Ideas & Games

Ideas & GamesSpin the Wheel Ideas: 60 Wheels to Make for Class, Parties and Work60 spin the wheel ideas: classroom wheels, clean party challenges, family and home wheels, team meeting wheels, fitness and creative wheels – each with a template to start from.

Ideas & GamesHow to Play Tambola (Housie): Tickets, Number Calls and Winning PatternsHow to play tambola (housie): how a ticket works, how numbers 1–90 are called, the usual winning patterns from Early Five to Full House, and how to run a family game online.

Ideas & GamesHow to Make Small Decisions Faster (and When to Let a Coin or Wheel Decide)Simple ways to stop overthinking small decisions: set a time limit, cut the options, use a default – and when flipping a coin or spinning a wheel actually helps, backed by a 22,511-toss study.

Sports & Tosses

Sports & TossesCricket Toss Rules: Who Flips, Who Calls and What the Winner ChoosesThe cricket toss explained from the Laws of Cricket and ICC playing conditions: when the toss happens, who must be there, what the winner decides and why it cannot be changed.

Sports & TossesSuper Bowl Coin Toss: How It Works and What the Winner ChoosesHow the Super Bowl coin toss works under the NFL rulebook: when it happens, who calls, what the winner can choose, what deferring means, and how the overtime toss works.

Events & Giveaways

Events & GiveawaysPrize Wheel Ideas for Work, School and Events (Low-Cost and Non-Cash)Prize wheel ideas that cost little or nothing: rewards for office events, classrooms, booths and parties, how many slices to use, and how to set fair, visible odds.

How-to guides

How-to guideHow to Pick a Giveaway Winner FairlyHow to pick a giveaway winner fairly: collect entries, remove duplicates, spin the wheel or draw names on screen, pick backup winners and announce. Free.

How-to guideHow to Spin the Wheel on GoogleHow to spin the wheel on Google: search "spinner", switch to Number mode and pick 2–20 slices. What Google's spinner can't do, and free wheels that take names.

How-to guideOBS Spin Wheel Overlay: Add a Wheel to Your StreamAdd a spin wheel to OBS or Streamlabs as a browser source with a transparent background. Free, no login: build the wheel, copy the OBS link, spin on stream.

How-to guideEmbed a Spinning Wheel on Your WebsiteEmbed a spinning wheel on your website, blog, Google Sites or Notion with a free iframe code. Build the wheel, copy the embed code, paste it in. No login.