Random Name Picker Wheel

1. Replace the sample names with your own list, or try the Meeting order or Party / icebreakers example. Paste a column from a spreadsheet if that is easier.
2. Press SPIN. The name under the pointer is the pick. With remove-winner on (the default here), that name leaves the wheel so it cannot come up again until you restore the list.
3. Press Spin again for the next person. Keep Remove winner after spin on in the toolbar so each pick leaves the wheel. Sound and spin length are in the ⋮ menu on the wheel.
4. Use Share to copy a link to the same list, or New / Open to start fresh or reload a saved wheel. Shuffle only reorders the slices; it does not change the odds.

Both tools spin a wheel over a list and can remove winners after each pick. The difference is the setup, not the math. This random name picker opens as a general list tool: sample names, meeting and party examples, and no classroom framing. The classroom spinner opens with a sample roster, teacher example wheels (jobs, brain breaks, reading groups), and copy written for cold calling and projectors.

Use this page for standups, workshops, raffles by name, icebreakers, and "who goes first" at a party. Use the classroom page when the list is a class and you want the teacher-oriented examples and wording. Teachers who only need a plain roster can still use either tool—the remove-winner behavior is the same idea on both.

• Cold-calling in class. 28 names, Remove winner on. By Friday everyone has answered once, and no one can say you always pick the front row. See calling on students fairly.
• Monday stand-up. Spin for who goes first, keep Remove winner on, and spin until the wheel is empty. That's your order.
• White elephant turn order. Same trick for a gift exchange: spin until the wheel is empty and play in that order. Steal limits and freeze rules are in White Elephant rules.
• Three presenters from fourteen. Spin three times with Remove winner on. Done in under a minute.
• Small giveaway. For 1–3 winners from a short comment list the wheel is fine. For ticket books or alternates, use the raffle generator.

Paste the team once and it's there tomorrow. Spin the whole order before anyone speaks and paste it in the chat.

Each line in your list is one name and one equal slice. When you press SPIN, the page picks one of the names still on the wheel at random, and then the wheel turns to stop on it. On this page remove winner is on by default, so the picked name leaves the wheel straight away. The next spin is only between the people who haven't been picked yet.

That makes it a fair way to build an order, not just choose one person. Spin until one name is left, and the order names came off is a complete random order, with the last name going last. The wheel holds up to 60 names.

The pick comes from your browser's secure random number generator, and Shuffle only moves names around the rim. The wheel needs two names to spin, so when one is left, that person simply goes last. For icebreakers where the same person being picked twice is part of the joke, switch remove winner off.

A workshop has 14 attendees and time for three short presentations. Paste the 14 names and leave remove winner on.

• First spin: each person has a 1 in 14 chance.
• Second spin: one name is gone, so it's 1 in 13 for the rest.
• Third spin: 1 in 12.

Across the three spins, every attendee has the same overall chance of presenting: 3 in 14, or about 21%. Nobody's position in the list makes any difference.

Before the first spin, press Copy so the full list is on your clipboard. When the session ends, paste it back and the wheel is ready for the next group.

• Press Space to spin when the wheel is focused, which is handy when you're presenting.
• Turn Sound on for a classroom and off for a meeting.
• More than 60 names? Split them across two wheels, or use the raffle generator.
• Need the whole room in groups rather than one name? Random team generator.

Bigger wheel sites offer themes, images and huge lists. ExesTools keeps it small: one list, one wheel, remove-winner, a share link, and sister tools for teams, raffles and Secret Santa on the same site. Spinning for prizes rather than names? Try the prize wheel spinner.

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