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Yes or no wheel

Can’t decide? Spin and get a yes or a no, at even odds.

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Guide and details

Three yes slices, three no slices, even odds. The answer is drawn before the wheel moves.

How the odds are set

The wheel opens with six slices, three yes and three no, so each answer has an even chance. The odds follow the lines in the list and nothing else. Add one “Maybe” and the wheel has seven slices: yes three in seven, no three in seven, maybe one in seven.

You can tilt the wheel on purpose. Four yes and two no is a two-in-three wheel, useful when you already lean one way and want chance to have the last word only sometimes.

Use the spin to find out what you want

A yes-or-no wheel is at its most useful a second before it stops. If you catch yourself hoping for one of the answers while it slows down, you have your decision, whatever the pointer says. Take the result as a suggestion and your reaction to it as the information.

For questions that deserve more than a spin

A wheel is fine for dessert or no dessert. For a job offer or a move, list what matters and score the options in the decision matrix. For a plain two-way call between people, a coin flip is quicker to explain.

Why use Choose Tools

  • One source of randomness

    Every draw calls crypto.getRandomValues and throws away the values that would cause modulo bias. A test fails if Math.random ever appears in the source.

  • The result comes first

    The wheel, the coin and the dice pick the outcome before they move. The animation always has the same length and only shows what was drawn.

  • A receipt you can recompute

    Wheel and name-picker winners are derived from a 256-bit seed with SHA-256. The Verify page repeats the calculation and compares.

  • Lists stay on your device

    They are kept in local storage. Shared links carry the list after the #, which browsers do not send to servers. There is no account.

  • Quiet by default

    Sound is off until you turn it on, and with “reduce motion” set in your system the result appears with no animation.

Questions and answers

Is it really half and half?

As long as the wheel has as many yes lines as no lines. It opens with three of each, so the odds are even.

Can I add “maybe”?

Yes, add a line with it. Odds follow the number of lines: with three yes, three no and one maybe, maybe comes up one time in seven.

Why six slices and not two?

Only so the wheel is worth watching. Three yes and three no give the same odds as one of each.