Why use this wheel
Faster than a coin
One tap, a satisfying spin, and a full-screen answer you can't argue with.
Add a Maybe
Three-way indecision is still indecision. Add Maybe, Ask again later, or anything else you need.
Tilt the odds
Weight Yes at 70% if you want the universe nudged in a particular direction. We won't tell.
The trick everyone secretly uses
There is a well-known piece of folk wisdom about coin flips: the point is not the result, it is noticing what you were hoping for while the coin was in the air. A yes/no wheel works the same way, only slower — you get three full seconds of deceleration to discover which answer you were quietly rooting for.
If the wheel lands on No and you immediately want to spin again, you have your answer, and it was never going to come from the wheel. That is not a failure of the tool. Externalising the decision for a few seconds is often the fastest way to find out what you actually think.
For the genuinely fifty-fifty questions — the ones where you truly do not care and just want to stop deliberating — it does the simpler job too. One spin and the conversation is over.
Two options is rarely the real shape of the problem
Plenty of questions that arrive as yes/no are actually three-way. Add Maybe, Not yet, Ask again tomorrow, or Do half of it, and the wheel resizes to fit. A three-slice wheel with a genuine escape hatch often reflects the real decision better than a forced binary.
You can also stack the deck honestly. Set Yes to a weight of seven and No to three and the wheel shows a visibly larger Yes slice — a 70/30 draw rather than a coin flip. This is more useful than it sounds for questions where you want to lean one way without committing: it is not really chance any more, but it is not a decision you had to make either.
Is it a genuine fifty-fifty?
By default, yes, and more rigorously than a physical coin. Each option occupies exactly half the wheel, and the draw comes from your browser's cryptographic random generator rather than Math.random. A real coin toss has a slight, measurable bias toward the face it started on; this does not.
When you set weights, the slice sizes change to match the new odds, so what you see is always what the maths is doing.
When two slices are not enough
A great many questions that arrive as yes or no are not really binary. Should I text them back is usually should I text them back now, later, or not at all. Adding a third slice costs nothing and often produces the answer that was actually available.
The useful additions are the ones that buy time or change the question: maybe, ask again tomorrow, do the smallest version, or ask someone else. Each of these is a real outcome you could act on, which is the test a slice has to pass — put do nothing on the wheel and it will eventually come up, so only add it if doing nothing is genuinely allowed.
Be aware of what the extra slice does to the odds. Two slices are a coin. Three are a third each, which means a straight yes is now less likely than not-yes — if you want to keep the fifty-fifty and merely soften the loss, weight it: write yes:2, no:2, maybe:1 and the maybe becomes the twenty percent escape hatch rather than an equal third.
How to use the yes or no wheel
- 01
Ask your question
Out loud, ideally. It makes the spin better.
- 02
Spin
Press the button or hit Space.
- 03
Accept your fate
Or spin again. We don't judge.
Frequently asked questions
Is it a true 50/50?
By default, yes — each option occupies exactly half the wheel and the draw is cryptographically random. If you set weights, the odds shift to match and the slice sizes update to show it.
Can I add more than yes and no?
Yes. Add Maybe, Definitely, Ask again tomorrow, or any other options you like — the wheel resizes to fit.
Is this better than flipping a real coin?
Statistically, slightly — a physical coin has a small bias toward the side it started on, and this doesn't. Practically, the advantage is that everyone in the room can watch it land and nobody has to trust the person who caught it.
Can I make it lean one way?
Yes. Set a weight on either option — Yes at 7 and No at 3 gives you a 70/30 wheel, and the Yes slice visibly grows to seven-tenths of the circle.
Does the wheel remember what I asked it?
It remembers the answers, not the questions. History shows the sequence of yes and no results, which is enough to notice you have asked the same thing four times without liking the answer.
Can I use it to settle something with another person?
Yes, and the share button is the reason it works: it packs the wheel into a link, so both of you can open the same two-slice wheel and watch the same spin instead of one person reporting the result.