Picture wheel

A picture wheel is a spinner wheel with images on the slices, instead of or next to text. It works best when words aren't enough, or when your audience can't read yet.

Common uses:

• Preschool and early grades: animals, fruit, colors or students' photos on the wheel, so kids recognize the result by the picture.
• Language class: say the name of the picture in the new language.
• Family and friends: who cooks tonight or picks the movie, each person with their own photo.
• Giveaways and product demos: photos of the prizes on the slices and your logo in the center.
• Dinner decider: dishes with pictures to whet the appetite.

The wheel starts with emoji foods, so you can try it right away before adding your own images.

You can add images in three places:

• Slices: Add pictures takes up to 60 images at once. The file name (without the extension) becomes the label, so cat.jpg becomes a "cat" slice. If the list already has a line with that name, the image attaches to it instead of adding a new line. Each image can be up to 15 MB.
• Center logo: for a company or school logo, or an event badge. The center circle gets bigger so the logo is easy to see.
• Background image: behind the wheel, for example a holiday or branded background for a livestream.

Pictures appear in a circle on each slice next to the label, and large in the winner window. If they get too small with lots of slices, use fewer items: 6 to 12 pictures are easiest to see.

Images are never uploaded. Your browser reads them locally and only keeps them while the page is open. That means they:

• aren't included in share links (the list, theme and settings are),
• aren't saved in the browser with your list, so you'll need to add them again after a reload,
• can't be seen by anyone else, only on the device where you opened them.

That's on purpose: with photos of children, family pictures or products you haven't announced yet, nothing should leave your computer. If you use the same images often, keep them in one folder so you can select them all at once.

• Whose turn is it? Family or group photos on the wheel, so even little ones can see who's next for dishes or story time.
• Animal sounds: animal pictures, and kids make the sound of the one that comes up.
• Colors and shapes: recognition practice in preschool.
• Vocabulary: objects, food or clothes; say the name of the picture in the new language.

Tip: rename files before adding them (Anna.jpg rather than IMG_2041.jpg) and your slice labels will be ready to go.

The picture wheel draws exactly like spin the wheel: your browser's cryptographic random number generator picks the winner when the spin starts, and every slice has the same chance. With six pictures that's 16.67%, with ten it's 10%.

To give a picture better odds, add *2 or *3 to the end of its line in the list. To take one out for now, add *0: the image stays loaded but isn't on the wheel. With winner removal on, each picture comes up only once, so everyone in a group gets a turn.

Every wheel feature works here too: themes and custom colors, five sound sets, confetti, full screen (Space or Enter to spin), winner removal, saved wheels, history with CSV export and a share link. This page saves its own list separately, so it won't overwrite your list on spin the wheel.