Random Picker With No Repeats
Every spin removes the winner, so nobody is picked again until everyone else has had a turn.
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The problem with the ordinary wheel
The name wheel elsewhere on this site is built to answer one question well: pick one thing, fairly, right now. That is exactly wrong for a common classroom and workplace need, which is going through everyone once — cold-calling students in turn, rotating who leads a stand-up, working through a queue of raffle tickets one at a time. Spin an ordinary wheel repeatedly for that and the same few names can come up again while others are never picked at all, because each spin is an independent draw with no memory of the last one.
This tool is the same wheel with one behaviour changed: whoever is picked is removed from the wheel before the next spin. That single change turns "pick someone" into "work through everyone, once each, in a random order" — which is what a cold-call queue or a rotation actually needs.
What changes, and what stays the same
The fairness guarantee does not change: each spin is still drawn from the browser's cryptographic random number generator with the same bias-rejection used everywhere else on this site, and the winner is still decided before the wheel starts turning, not read off wherever the animation happens to stop. The only difference is what happens after the result is announced — the winning name is deleted from the list, and the wheel is redrawn with everyone else.
That means the odds change every spin, and they are meant to: with eight people on the wheel the first pick is a one-in-eight chance for everyone, but the second spin is a one-in-seven chance among whoever is left, and so on until one name remains. By the last spin there is no draw left to make — the tool tells you when everyone has had a turn instead of silently doing nothing.
Starting over
Once everyone has been picked, edit the textarea back to your full list (or reload the page, which restores the example names) to start a fresh round. This tool deliberately does not keep a running history across rounds — if you need last week's speaking order for a fairness record, copy the announced names down yourself as you go, the same way you would with a paper list.
Where the ordinary wheel is still the right choice
If you only need one answer — who goes first, who picks the restaurant, who gets the last slice — the plain name picker wheel is the simpler tool: nothing is removed, so you can spin it again immediately for an unrelated decision without rebuilding your list. Use this page specifically when "everyone gets exactly one turn, in a random order" is the actual goal.
Questions
Does removing the winner make later spins less fair?
No. Each remaining spin is still a genuinely uniform draw among whoever is left — fair does not mean "same odds every time," it means everyone currently on the wheel has an equal chance. As people are removed, the odds for everyone remaining rise equally, which is exactly what a cold-call rotation needs.
What happens when only one name is left?
The tool tells you that person is the only one left rather than letting you spin a one-slice wheel, since spinning would not actually decide anything at that point.
Can I put someone back on the wheel after they are picked?
Yes — just retype their name into the textarea. The tool only removes a name from the text you can see and edit; nothing is locked or hidden.
Is this the same as just shuffling the list once?
Functionally similar for a single full round, but this stays a wheel you spin one name at a time — useful when you want a visible, dramatic pick for each person's turn rather than a full order revealed all at once. If you only want the final order and do not care about spinning through it, the random order shuffler gets there in one click.