Prize Wheel

A prize wheel turns handing out prizes into a moment people actually watch, instead of a name pulled quietly from a hat. Streamers use one to run live Twitch or YouTube giveaways in front of chat. Event organizers use one at trade shows and conferences to draw booth visitors in and reward them for stopping by. Retailers spin one at the register or storefront as an in-store promotion. Party hosts use one to hand out favors or raffle prizes without printing tickets. In every case, the appeal is the same: a spinning wheel makes a random draw feel like an event rather than an administrative task.

How to Set Up a Fair Prize Wheel

Setting one up for a real audience takes a minute. Clear out the starter prizes and type in what you’re actually giving away - gift cards, discount codes, merchandise, a grand prize, “try again” slots to keep the odds honest if you’re offering more entries than prizes. Each prize gets its own color automatically, so the wheel reads clearly even from across a room or through a stream. If a prize should only be awarded once, turn on “Remove winner after spin” before you start - the wheel takes it out of the pool the moment it’s won, so nobody can land on a gift card that’s already been claimed. Share your screen for a stream, or pull the page up on a tablet or laptop at a booth or counter, and you’re ready to go live with zero setup beyond typing in your prize list.

Tips for Running a Fair Prize Wheel Giveaway

A giveaway only works if people trust the draw. A few habits keep it that way:

• Load every prize before you announce the giveaway is live. Adding or editing prizes mid-stream, even innocently, invites the “was that rigged?” question you don’t want to answer.
• Decide on repeats ahead of time. If a prize should only go out once, turn on elimination mode before the first spin, not after someone already won it twice.
• Let the wheel come to a complete stop before reading the winner. The deceleration is genuinely physics-based, so calling it early - especially on a fast-moving stream clip - can misread the actual landing segment.
• Say the rules out loud (or write them in chat) before you spin. “One spin per person,” “no re-entering once you’ve won,” whatever your rule is - stating it up front does more for perceived fairness than the randomness itself.
• Keep segment sizes equal unless you’re intentionally weighting odds. Every prize takes up the same size wedge by default. If you want one prize to be rarer, add “Try Again” or a lower-tier prize more than once instead of shrinking anyone’s slice - the wheel doesn’t support unequal wedge sizes, only unequal entry counts.

Custom Prize Wheel for Any Event

Because every prize, color, and rule is yours to set, this works as a fully custom prize wheel rather than a fixed template built for one kind of giveaway. A trade show booth might load ten small swag items and one grand-prize entry; a Twitch streamer might load subscriber tiers and donation thresholds; a classroom might use it for stickers instead of prizes at all. The wheel itself doesn’t care what’s written on it - it just needs a list of options and treats every one of them as an equal shot unless you’ve weighted it on purpose by repeating an entry.

A Prize Wheel for Giveaways Everywhere - Streams, Stores, and Trade Shows

The same wheel that works for a five-minute in-store promotion also works for a scheduled Twitch giveaway or a full day at a trade show booth, since there’s nothing to install and nothing that expires mid-event. It runs entirely in the browser, so a booth staffer can hand a tablet to a visitor and let them tap the spin button themselves, or a streamer can trigger it on screen without switching software. There’s no session limit and no signup wall that interrupts a live event partway through.

Whether you’re picking a winner on stream, drawing a raffle at a conference, or just making the checkout line at a pop-up shop more fun, this prize wheel is built to make the reveal the best part of the giveaway.