Yes or no wheel

A ready-made two-option wheel for when the decision itself is already Yes-or-No shaped. Spin it for a fair, uniformly random answer — 50/50, every time, with no coin required.

Add entries and press Spin.

When a yes/no wheel beats a mental coin flip

A coin flip is fine when you trust yourself to actually go with it. In practice, people re-flip a coin that lands on the answer they didn't want, or never quite trust that a flip in their own hand was fair. An on-screen wheel removes both problems: the pick happens in code, is drawn the same uniform way every time, and there is a visible spin-down before the answer appears, which makes re-doing it until you get the "right" answer feel more obviously like cheating than a quiet re-flip does.

It is exactly the same engine as the full wheel spinner, just pre-loaded with two entries instead of however many you would otherwise type. Anything the full tool can do — shuffle, remove the winner, reset, keep the list between visits — works here too.

Why it's a genuine 50/50

The wheel does not decide by spinning some random amount and reading off whatever segment happens to stop under the pointer — that shortcut is where accidental bias creeps into home-made spinners. Instead, the tool draws a uniformly random pick between the two entries first (Math.random() < 0.5 is functionally what a two-entry draw reduces to), and only afterwards calculates the one rotation that lands the wheel on whichever entry was already chosen. Which half of the wheel Yes occupies, or which colour it is, has no bearing on the odds.

Frequently asked questions

Is a yes-or-no wheel the same as flipping a coin?

Statistically, yes — both give exactly two outcomes with an equal 50/50 chance, drawn independently each time. The wheel is not a physics simulation of a coin; it uses the same uniform random pick as the full wheel spinner, just limited to two entries. Pick whichever presentation you find more satisfying to watch.

Can I change the two options to something other than Yes and No?

Yes. Edit the text box above the wheel — it works with any two entries (Heads/Tails, Left/Right, Stay/Go), not only the word Yes and the word No. Add a third line and it stops being a coin-flip and becomes a uniform three-way pick instead.

Does this wheel favour Yes or No?

No. Each spin draws a uniformly random index between the two entries before the wheel's rotation is even calculated, so Yes and No each have exactly a 50% chance regardless of which one is typed first or which colour segment it lands in.

Is this wheel saved separately from the main wheel spinner?

Yes. This page remembers its own two-option list separately from the general-purpose wheel spinner, so customising one does not overwrite whatever list you were using on the other page.