About Lucky Wheel

Our Story

Lucky Wheel started in September 2025 out of pure frustration. I'm Alex Chen, a former high school math teacher who got tired of the same five students always raising their hands while the rest of the class stayed silent. I tried the classic "popsicle sticks in a cup" method, but let's be honest—it's clunky, time-consuming, and impossible to use during virtual classes.

So I did what any slightly tech-savvy teacher would do: I spent a weekend building a simple web-based spinning wheel. Nothing fancy, just a tool that could randomly pick student names and keep things fair. I shared it with my teacher friends, and within a week, three of them were using it daily.

Fast forward a few months, and what started as a personal project has grown into something much bigger. Teachers across the country are using it for cold-calling. Event organizers run their raffles with it. Families use it to decide whose turn it is to do the dishes (apparently, that's a surprisingly common use case!).

The best part? It's completely free. No ads cluttering the screen, no premium features locked behind paywalls, no data harvesting. Just a clean, simple tool that does one thing really well: make random selection easy and engaging.

Why We Built This

Honestly? Because the existing options were terrible. Most spinning wheel sites were either bloated with ads, had confusing interfaces, or tried to upsell you on "pro" features you didn't need. We wanted something different:

• ▶Actually free: No hidden costs, no trials, no credit card required. Ever.
• ▶Works instantly: No sign-up forms. Just open the page and start spinning.
• ▶Genuinely useful: Features like eliminate mode and results history that people actually need.
• ▶Privacy-first: Everything saves locally on your device. We don't track, store, or sell your data.

We built the tool we wished existed when we needed it.

Who Uses Lucky Wheel?

Our users surprise us every day. We thought it would just be teachers, but turns out random selection is a universal need:

We've heard from a wedding planner who uses it for bouquet tosses, a youth pastor who picks Bible study volunteers, and even a startup CEO who uses it for daily standup order. Random selection, it turns out, is everywhere.