AhaSlides Spinner Wheel | ☝️1 Randomized Wheel Spinner

What is AhaSlides Spinner Wheel?

AhaSlides free spinner wheel is an alternative to Google Spinner, which uses advanced code and a random number generator wheel to ensure the fairest possible result. All results are fair, 100% random and influenced by nothing beyond the algorithm that runs it.

You can use this random picker for absolutely anything to keep your gatherings thrilled and engaging! Spinner Wheel can be perfectly combined with other tools for different purposes as below:

When to Use AhaSlides’ Spinner Wheel

For Education

AhaSlides is known as the top tool to use for teaching purposes since lecturers and educators are struggling to find the right technique and approach to engage with students.

Lecturers can also use AhaSlides as classroom poll software to gather feedback from students and uncover innovative teaching methods that match the class learning style!

For Business

Engage your employees with various types of activities included in business meetings and gatherings, for example, host team building activities for work, also to organise project kickoff meetings...

AhaSlides is one of the best Kahoot alternatives! You can learn how to make quizzes and polls with AhaSlides to make your presentation more interactive and engaging and to encourage company culture and value.

For Fun

AhaSlides Spinner Wheel is the best way to choose players in games and small activities, like when you're hosting a sports quiz question session or playing guess the picture game.

🎊 Tips: Split your team with AhaSlides random team generator!

Applications of AhaSlides Spinner Wheel

1. Yes or No 👍👎 Spinner Wheel
   Some tough decisions just need to be made via the flip of a coin, or in this case, the spin of a wheel. The Yes or No Wheel is the perfect antidote to overthinking and a great way to make a decision efficiently.
2. Alternative to Wheel of Names 💁‍♀️💁‍♂️
   The Wheel of Names is a random name generator wheel when you need a name for a character, your pet, a pen name, identities in witness protection, or anything! There’s a list of 30 anglocentric names that you can use. The Picker Wheel is also another competitor of the Spinner Wheel.
3. Alphabet Spinner Wheel 🅰
   The Alphabet Spinner Wheel (also known as the word spinner, Alphabet Wheel or Alphabet Spin Wheel) is a random letter generator that helps with classroom lessons. It’s great for learning a new vocabulary that starts with the random generated letter.
4. Food Spinner Wheel 🍜
   Unable to decide what and where to eat? There are endless options, so you often experience the paradox of choices. So, let the Food Spinner Wheel decide for you! It comes with all the choices you’d need for a varied, flavourful diet. Or, in Vietnamese words, ‘Trua Nay An Gi‘
5. Number Generator Wheel 💯
   Holding a company raffle? Running a bingo night? The Number Generator Wheel is all you need! Spin the wheel to pick a random number between 1 and 100.
6. Harry Potter Generator 🧙‍♂️
   You might have taken the Harry Potter House Test, but let the spirits of the wizards speak for you. Spin the Harry Potter Wheel to know if you really belong in the heroic house of Gryffindor or in the stealthy house of Slytherin. You can even find a bunch of other Harry Potter name wheels with this Harry Potter spinner wheel theme, such as wheels for students, teachers, founders and families.
7. Prize Wheel Spinner 🎁
   It’s always exciting when giving away prizes, therefore the prize wheel app is very important. Keep everyone at the edge of their seats as you spin the wheel and maybe, add a thrilling music to complete the mood!
8. Zodiac Spinner Wheel ♉
   Put your fate in the hands of the cosmos. The Zodiac Spinner Wheel can reveal which star sign is your true match or who you should be staying away from because the stars don’t align.
9. Random Drawing Generator Wheel
   This drawing randomizer provides ideas for you to sketch or make an art of. You can use this wheel anytime to kick-start your creativity or practice your drawing skills.
10. Magic 8-Ball Wheel
    Every 90's kid, at some point, has made a big decision using an 8-ball, despite its often non-committal answers. This one’s got most of the usual answers of the real magic 8-ball.
11. Random Name Wheel
    Randomly select 30 names for any reason you might need them. Seriously, any reason – maybe a new profile name to hide your embarrassing past, or a new forever identity after snitching on a warlord.
12. Truth or Dare Wheel
    Get your party guests nervous and excited at the same time! The Truth or Dare Wheel is the classic party game but with a modern and vibrant twist this time.

Make Your Own Wheel

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While the spinner wheel can be used for many different purposes, including customizing the wheel to be a giveaway spin wheel; picking a winner by spinning the wheel of names – the process of creating all these type of wheels and entering your entries into the wheel is always the same.

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Create Your Entries

You can add your own entries to the wheel above by typing them into the 'entry box' on the left-hand side of the wheel. Entries must contain fewer than 25 characters and can be uploaded to the wheel by pressing the Add button or by hitting Enter on your keyboard.

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Review your List

When you're finished inputting all your entries, check them out in the list below the entry box. The most recent entry will be shown at the top of the list and the section above the list, labelled Entries, will show the number of entries you have inputted.

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Spin The Wheel

With all entries uploaded to your wheel, it's time to spin! Simply click the button in the centre of the wheel to spin it, then wait for it to land on one of your entries.

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Delete Entries

If you want to remove an entry after the spinner wheel has landed on it, hover over the name in the entry list and click the delete icon.

Wanna Make it Interactive?

Check out our guide for Spinner Wheel now and try it for yourself! Let your participants add their own entries to the wheel! Find out how to make a spinner wheel…

AhaSlides Features

It's easy to make a spinning wheel online, but a customizable spinning wheel is definitely not something something else!

This wheel spinner app is only one of AhaSlides' many engagement tools for interactive presentations and brainstorming sessions.

Using AhaSlides’ spinner wheel gives you so many more avenues for customization, as well as the opportunity to up the engagement by having participants join the show directly!

1. Invite participants to join this interactive spinner

As this spinner (wheel) is web-based, your audience can join and try their luck by entering the specific code of this cool wheel into their phones. By joining, they can participate in the spinning wheel game and can directly see the results displayed on their devices.

2. Have participants fill in their names

Don’t have time to add the names of your participants manually? No problem. Once they join your room, they can fill in their name with an avatar that will be automatically uploaded to the wheel.

3. Add a heading

Write a heading just above the random wheel spinner to relay the point of the wheel. For example, if you’re using the wheel to pick participants to answer a question, you can directly write the question above to keep them on track or add something light and fun that will take away the tension of recitation, such as ‘who knows Shakespeare the best’ or ‘tick tock it’s maths o’clock.’

4. Customise your spin-the-wheel generator background and font

Make your spinner wheel eye-catching and vibrant by customizing it according to the theme of your liking. With AhaSlides,  you can change the background of the wheel using any image and colour you want, and there are various fonts you can try. There’s an in-built image library from which to source your images and even a dark mode feature.

Need help with the spinner wheel? 💡 Check out this article in our knowledge base for more information.

AhaSlides Spinner Wheel Templates

Fun Wheel Templates

• Tarot Spinner Wheel, or Tarot Wheel
• Twister Spinner Wheel
• Random Coin Flip Spinner Wheel
• Random Rwanda Coin Flip Spinner Wheel (And Part 2)
• Random Spider Man Coin Flip
• Random Royal Fortune Coin Flip
• Random Things To Buy
• Spin The Wheel App Free Download

History of Spin Wheel Picker

AhaSlides is all about making presentations of any kind fun, colorful, and engaging. That’s why we decided in May 2021 to develop the AhaSlides Spinner Wheel 🎉

The idea actually started outside the company, at Abu Dhabi University. It started with the director of Al-Ain and Dubai campuses, Dr Hamad Odhabi, a long-term fan of AhaSlides for its ability to improve engagement amongst students under his care.

He put forward the suggestion of a random wheel spinner to give him the ability to select students by chance. We loved his idea and we immediately got to work. Here’s how it all played out…

• 12th May 2021: Created the first draft of the spinner wheel, including the wheel and the play button.
• 14th May 2021: Added the spinner pointer, entry box and the entry list.
• 17th May 2021: Added the entry counter and the entry ‘window’.
• 19th May 2021: Refined the final look of the wheel and added ending celebration pop-up.
• 20th May 2021: Made the spinner wheel compatible with AhaSlides’ in-built profanity filter.
• 26th May 2021: Refined the final version of the audience view of the wheel on mobile.
• 27th May 2021: Added the ability for participants to add their name to the wheel.
• 28th May 2021: Added the ticking sound and celebration fanfare.
• 29th May 2021: Added the ‘update wheel’ feature to allow new participants to join the wheel.
• 30th May 2021: Made final checks and released the spinner wheel as our 17th slide type.

We’ll keep all updates to the spinner wheel logged above. Check back here to see what’s new!

Spinner Wheel in Game Shows

Randomizer wheels such as this have a long history of realizing and dashing dreams across TV. Who’d have thought that we can use this to make our daily activities at work, school, or home more fun and stimulating?

Spinner Wheels were trendy amongst American game shows in the 70’s, and viewers quickly got hooked on the intoxicating whirlpool of light and sound that could bring vast riches to ordinary people.

The spinner wheel spun into our hearts from the early days of the smash hit Wheel of Fortune. Its ability to enliven what was essentially a televisual game of Hangman, and retain viewer interest to the present day, really told of the power of random wheel spinners and ensured that game shows with wheel gimmicks would continue to flood in throughout the 70s.

In that period, The Price is Right, Match Game, and The Big Spin became masters in the art of spin, employing enormous picker wheels to select numbers, letters, and amounts of money in a random fashion.
Though most wheel spinners spun their course in 70s-inspired TV shows, there are occasional examples of ones that have been thrust back into limelight. Mainly the short-lived Spin the Wheel, produced by Justin Timberlake in 2019, and a 40-foot wheel, which is by far the most ostentatious in TV history.

Want to read more? 💡 John Teti’s excellent and brief history of TV spinner wheel – the random spinner is certainly worth a read. 

👉 Spinner Wheel!

Key Takeaways

Spinner Wheels continues to be one of the most thrilling elements of game shows, captivating audiences with their unpredictability and potential for big wins. It has become such an integral part of entertainment that it has transcended the boundaries of game shows. It is now a feature of modern online games and mobile apps, used in various ways to engage and entertain. 

AhaSlides is one such platform that has incorporated spinner wheels into its interactive presentation software. Whether it's for a trivia game, a random prize selection, or simply adding an element of surprise, AhaSlides' Spinner Wheel brings the excitement of game shows right to your fingertips.

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