Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions about spinthewheel.io are shown here.

How to Embed a Spin the Wheel Page on a Website

The easiest way of embedding wheel pages into a website is by using an iframe like so:

Copy the code shown above and replace the "https://spinthewheel.io" with the complete URL of the page on our site that you want to embed.

You can try using a website like https://www.iframe-generator.com/ to help simplify this process. Then you can spin the wheel on your own website.

How to Embed a Spin the Wheel Page on Google Sites

You can embed pages from our site into Google Sites. Follow these steps:

Go to the Insert panel and click Embed
A pop-up appears. Select By URL
Paste the entire https://spinthewheel.io page link that you want to embed
Select Whole Page and click Insert
Select Publish

How can I Show the Wheel/s and Nothing Else?

Sometimes you want to show a large group a wheel without any other distractions. The easiest way of achieving this is to enter Fullscreen mode. To do this, press "Fullscreen" from the menu at the top of the wheel page.

When you wish to exit Fullscreen mode, press 'FullScreen' again or press the Escape (esc) button on your keyboard.

How Can Spin the Wheel be Used?

There are so many ways that spinthewheel.io can be used, and people are thinking of new ways to use the site every day. The innovative multi-wheel functionality means that there is so much more possible on Spin the Wheel than a simple wheel of names. Here are some examples:

Creating quiz questions
Sharpening mathematics skills
Roll 2 dice
Flipping coins (example)
Generating ideas for stories
Choosing teams to play each other from groups
Spin a wheel of names

Check out readymade wheels for more ideas.

How Many Entries Can I Put on the Wheel?

There is no theoretical limit on the maximum number of entries that can be added to the wheel, although the more that you add, the more work your web browser will need to do. Therefore, it is only really constrained by the capabilities of your computer or mobile device.

When 600 or more entries have been added to the wheel, the entries become unreadable to the human eye. Therefore, to make the wheel work more efficiently and to save your computer or device from having to work extra hard unnecessarily, entries over this number are not shown on the wheel and they are all replaced by question marks ("?").

This is purely for visual purposes. All of the entries are still there - you just can't see them all. Refer to the Edit box to validate what's on the wheel at any one time. Also note the entries counter under the Edit box which keeps track of how many entries are there in total.

Rest assured, the same random process of selection is used no matter what number of entries are added to (and visible on) the wheel.

What Can I do About Ads?

There are a lot of costs involved in the creation, maintenance and daily running of Spin the Wheel. Ads are the most effective way to deal with helping to fund these and we thank our sponsors for making this possible.

However, we've designed the site so that you can easily close the ad units should you so choose. Also, when you use FullScreen mode, no ads are visible (whether you've already closed them or not). Finally, you have the ability to disable ads on any of the wheels that you create. To do so, use the 'Design' menu item and click 'Disable ads'.

If you are interested in placing ads on the site, please get in touch via the admin at spin the wheel dot io.

Terms and Conditions of Use

The Terms and Conditions of Use of SpintheWheel.io are available here.