Random Color Wheel
Spin to pick a random color from 8 bright shades of the rainbow. Fun for art prompts, team assignments, and classroom games.
Fair by design: each spin draws from your browser’s cryptographic random number generator, giving every entry an equal 1-in-8 chance. No server is involved.
One entry per line. 8 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.
Random Color Wheel at a glance
| Slices | 8 |
|---|---|
| Chance per slice, per spin | 1 in 8 (12.5%) |
| Chance of a given slice in 10 spins | 73.7% |
| Category | Classroom wheels |
| Randomness source | crypto.getRandomValues, tested |
| Last updated |
About the Random Color 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 Random Color 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.
A random color is a tiny creative constraint that gets things moving. Artists and art teachers spin the wheel for palette challenges: whatever it lands on becomes the dominant color of the next sketch or the next layer of a painting. Craft groups use it to assign yarn or paint colors so nobody claims the popular shade first. It is just as useful for organizing people, since spinning a color per player is a friendly way to hand out team colors, board game pieces, or party dress codes. Kids love it for color scavenger hunts, where everyone races to find an object in the winning color. The eight starter colors give a balanced spread across the rainbow with equal odds each spin. Add shades like turquoise or gold, or paste in hex-specific names for a design project, and the wheel adapts instantly.
The odds on this wheel
There are 8 slices, all the same size, so a given slice wins one spin with probability 1 ÷ 8 = 12.5%. 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 12.5%.
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 − 1/8)10 = 73.7%. 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
Which colors are on the Random Color wheel?
It holds eight colors, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink, and Teal, and each has a 1 in 8 chance of being selected.
Can I use the color wheel to pick a paint shade or outfit color?
Yes, spin it to choose a color for a room, an outfit, a craft, or a team, and you can edit the list to match the exact shades you're choosing between.
How is this different from a standard color picker?
Instead of browsing a full spectrum, this wheel randomly lands on one color from a short, editable shortlist, which helps when you want chance to decide rather than scrolling swatches.
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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