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.
One entry per line. 5 entries on the wheel.
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.
Please keep the attribution link on the last line. It is the only thing we ask in return, and it is what pays for the wheel being free.
Numbers 1 to 5 Wheel at a glance
| Slices | 5 |
|---|---|
| Chance per slice, per spin | 1 in 5 (20.0%) |
| Chance of a given slice in 10 spins | 89.3% |
| Category | Number wheels |
| Randomness source | crypto.getRandomValues, tested |
| Last updated |
About the Numbers 1 to 5 Wheel
This wheel comes pre filled and ready to spin. Give it a whirl as is, or edit the entries in the box to make it your own. Every slice has equal odds, so the result is fair each and every time. When the wheel stops, the pointer at the top marks the winning slice.
Nothing you spin is uploaded anywhere. The Numbers 1 to 5 Wheel runs entirely in your browser, and you can save your edits to your own device. When you want your visitors to spin the same wheel, copy the embed code under the wheel and drop it onto your page.
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.
The odds on this wheel
There are 5 slices, all the same size, so a given slice wins one spin with probability 1 ÷ 5 = 20.0%. Every spin is independent of the one before it, which means no result is ever due: after ten spins without a particular slice, the chance on the eleventh is still 20.0%.
Across several spins the maths follows the complement rule. The chance of a given slice coming up at least oncein ten spins is 1 − (1 − 1/5)10 = 89.3%. Edit the entry list and every figure here recomputes, because they are derived from the wheel rather than written down beside it.
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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