Numbers 1 to 5 Wheel
Spin to land on a random number from 1 to 5, each with an equal one in five chance. Made for five-option picks: small groups, rating scales, and quick draws.
Fair by design: each spin draws from your browser’s cryptographic random number generator, giving every entry an equal 1-in-5 chance. No server is involved.
5 entries on the wheel, up to 500.
Every entry has an equal 1-in-5 chance. Write "1 *3" to make an entry three times as likely.
The entries travel in the part of the link after the #, which browsers never send to a server. Nobody, including us, can read a shared wheel from a log.
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Numbers 1 to 5 Wheel at a glance
| Slices | 5, 72° each |
|---|---|
| Chance per slice, per spin | 1 in 5 (20.0%) |
| Chance of a given slice in 10 spins | 89.3% |
| A repeat becomes likely by | Spin 3 |
| Average spins to see every slice | 11 |
| Category | Number wheels |
| Randomness source | crypto.getRandomValues, tested |
| Last updated |
When to spin the Numbers 1 to 5 Wheel
Five options is a shape that keeps coming up. A team of five needs a fair pick for who presents, who fetches lunch or who reviews the next pull request. A five-point scale needs a random rating for testing a form or seeding an example. A classroom split into five groups needs one group chosen without the teacher choosing. This wheel gives each of the five numbers an identical twenty percent chance per spin, so across a term or a season nobody can claim the draw leans anywhere. It also works as a die for games that use a five-count, or as a picker for a top-five list: number your shortlist, spin, and the decision is made. If your group grows or shrinks, edit the entries to match, or step up to the ready made one to six and one to ten wheels for a wider range.
5 slices: odds, streaks and repeats
With five slices, each spin lands on any one of them 1 in 5 (20.0%). Small wheels repeat themselves more than people expect: spin five times and the chance of seeing 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 once each is only 3.8%, and by spin 3 a repeat is more likely than not. Seeing all five at least once takes about 11 spins on average.
Tips for spinning it in front of a group
- With 5 slices of 72° each, the numbers print large enough to read from the back of a room. Press Present for a full-screen wheel: Space or Enter spins and Esc returns to the page.
- Tick Remove after pick and each winner leaves the wheel: 5 spins work through all 5 numbers with none drawn twice, and Reset round puts 1 and the rest back.
- For a handicap in a family game, write "3 *2": 3 then lands 33.3% of the time against 16.7% for each other slice.
Frequently asked questions
What are the odds on the 1 to 5 wheel?
Each of the five numbers has an equal one in five chance, exactly 20%, on every spin, and spins are independent of each other.
What is a wheel of five numbers good for?
Groups of five, five-point rating scales, and shortlists: number your five options, spin once, and the pick is made fairly in front of everyone.
Can I make this a 1 to 7 or 1 to 4 wheel instead?
Yes. Add or delete numbers in the entry box and the wheel redraws instantly with equal odds across whatever values you keep.
Put this wheel on your own site
One line of HTML. No tracking, no cookies, and it works on any page. The embed code sits under the wheel above, and the embed guide has a copy-paste block for WordPress, Google Sites, Notion, Moodle, Canvas and OBS.
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