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The Spinner Wheel slide adds a randomiser to your presentation. Spin the wheel live in front of your audience to pick a winner, randomly select a participant to answer a question, or choose between options — with everyone watching.

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Adding Entries to the Wheel

In the slide editor, type each entry on a new line in the entries panel on the right-hand side. Each line becomes one segment of the wheel.This method is ideal for fixed lists where the entries are known in advance — for example, team names, discussion topics, prize categories, or a list of cities. You can also paste a bulk list of names directly into the entry panel and AhaSlides will split them into individual entries automatically.

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Spinning the Wheel

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Navigate to the Spinner Wheel slide

Advance to the Spinner Wheel slide in your presentation. The wheel appears on the main display with all entries loaded as segments.
2

Click Spin (or press the spacebar)

Click the Spin button in the presenter controls, or press the spacebar on your keyboard to start the wheel spinning.
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Wait for the wheel to slow and land

The wheel spins and gradually slows down. All entries are visible to the audience as it spins, building suspense.
4

The selected entry is highlighted and announced

The wheel stops on a segment and that entry is highlighted on screen. The selected name or option is displayed prominently for everyone to see.

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After a Spin

Once the wheel stops, you have two choices for the selected entry:
  • Remove it from the wheel — the entry is eliminated so it cannot be selected on the next spin. Use this for elimination-style draws or when picking multiple unique winners in sequence.
  • Keep it in — the entry stays in the wheel for the next spin. Use this when multiple spins are independent of each other and repeated selections are acceptable.
Click Spin again at any time to run another selection.

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Spinner Wheel Settings

Set how long the wheel spins before stopping, from a few seconds up to 1,200 seconds. A longer spin duration builds more suspense — useful for dramatic prize reveals or high-stakes draws during live events.
Add the same entry multiple times (up to 10 times) to weight the odds in favour of that entry. For example, adding a team name three times gives them a three times higher chance of being selected than a team listed once.
Show only the spinning wheel to the audience and hide the full list of entries from the screen. This prevents participants from reading through all entries in advance and focuses attention on the wheel itself.
Automatically blocks offensive names from appearing as wheel entries when using Autofill from participant names. Recommended whenever participant-submitted names populate the wheel in a public or professional setting.

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Tips

Make the most of your Spinner Wheel with these ideas:
  • Combine with a Word Cloud — collect word submissions on a Word Cloud slide, then spin through the top responses on a Spinner Wheel to select one as the focus for discussion.
  • Use autofill for fair random draws — letting participant names populate automatically means no manual setup and no accusations of a rigged list.
  • Set a long spin duration for dramatic prize reveals — a 30–60 second spin with music or a countdown builds real anticipation in a live audience.
  • Paste a bulk list of names directly into the entry panel — no need to type one by one; a line-separated list pasted in one go is split into individual entries automatically.