go spin it · from the shed

Field Notes

What we've learned building, and watching people use, a fair wheel.

Is a wheel spinner really random? What actually decides the winner, why the spin is theatre, and the rigged-wheel tricks worth knowing about. The wheel that runs my classroom Cold-calling without the dread — the patterns teachers converge on after a term with a name wheel. Picking a giveaway winner people will believe Someone will cry "rigged". A draw procedure that answers them before they type it.