Yes or No Wheel

What is the Yes or No Wheel?

The Yes or No Wheel is a two-option coin toss with a friendlier face. Type the question you are stuck on, choose whether Maybe is allowed, and spin. The wheel repeats each option around the rim so it looks like a proper prize wheel, but every option keeps exactly the same chance no matter how many slices it occupies.

It is designed for genuinely small choices — should we walk or take the bus, do we watch one more episode, is this the week we finally cancel that subscription — where the cost of deciding has grown larger than the cost of being wrong.

How to use it

1. Type your question in the box. It appears above the wheel and is never saved or sent anywhere.
2. Choose Yes/No or Yes/No/Maybe.
3. Optionally change the colours and the number of slices per option.
4. Press Spin.
5. The answer appears in large text and in the history log below.

How the random selection works

The tool picks the winning slice with crypto.getRandomValues() and rejection sampling, then rotates the wheel so that slice lands under the pointer. Because every slice is the same size and each option is repeated the same number of times, Yes and No each have exactly a 50% chance in two-option mode, and each option has a one-in-three chance in Maybe mode. Slice repetition only changes the appearance.

The full algorithm — including the rejection-sampling step and the wheel stop-angle calculation — is written out on the methodology page.

Practical examples

• Settling whether to order takeaway or cook, when both options are fine.
• Deciding whether a group takes a break now or in twenty minutes.
• Breaking a genuine 50/50 tie in a game with no tiebreak rule.
• Choosing whether to go first or second when nobody minds.

Available options

• Yes/No or Yes/No/Maybe.
• Custom colours for each answer.
• One, two, four or six slices per option — appearance only.
• Optional on-screen question, full-screen mode and a spin history.
• Sound and animation toggles, plus an instant mode with no animation.

Privacy

Your question stays on screen and nowhere else. Everything you type stays in this browser tab. There is no account, no upload step and no server-side copy of your list: the draw runs in JavaScript on your own device. Nothing is written to browser storage unless you explicitly save a list or tick the option to keep your draw history, and both can be cleared at any time from the privacy page.

Full details are in the privacy policy, which also has a button that deletes everything this site has stored in your browser.

Fairness and limitations

A yes/no wheel is only fair if both answers really do have the same chance, so this one keeps the slices identical in size and repeats each option an equal number of times. What a random answer cannot do is carry responsibility. Do not use this wheel — or any random tool — for medical, legal, financial or safety decisions. Those need real information, professional advice where relevant, and your own judgement.