Wheel of Doom
Spin to see what the doom has in store. Most slices are a silly challenge, and a few let you off.
No spins yet. Each pick is listed here in order.
Everything the wheel of doom can land on
Voices and songs (12)
- Sing the alphabet backwards
- Say hello in a squeaky mouse voice
- Announce your name like a movie trailer
- Sing your next three sentences
- Make up a two-line rhyme about doom
- Whisper a weather report for the room
- Count to ten in your deepest voice
- Sing a lullaby to the nearest chair
- Say “doom” like a ghost, then a mouse
- Introduce yourself as a royal knight
- Make up a song about socks and sing it
- Recite the ABCs like an opera singer
Silly moves (12)
- Hop like a bunny to the door and back
- Waddle like a duck across the room
- Do a slow-motion robot dance
- Crab walk for five steps
- Gallop in place like a horse
- Sway like a tree in the wind
- Do the silliest dance you can invent
- Jump like a frog three times
- Pretend to climb an invisible ladder
- Row an invisible boat for ten strokes
- Strike three superhero poses
- Walk like you are on the moon
Faces and acting (12)
- Make your scariest monster face
- Act out a cat that just woke up
- Pretend you are stuck in a bubble
- Show five feelings with your face
- Act out unwrapping a giant present
- Be a statue that keeps sneezing
- Act out a chicken looking for its egg
- Yawn and stretch like a sleepy giant
- Act out a tiny dragon learning to fly
- Hold your silliest pose for ten seconds
- Play a ghost who is afraid of the dark
- Pretend to juggle five invisible eggs
Brain teasers (11)
- Name five jobs in ten seconds
- Say “silly snakes sneeze” three times
- Name three things that are yellow
- Count backward from twenty by twos
- Name an animal for each letter A to E
- Think of four words that rhyme with doom
- Name five things to pack for the moon
- Name four things that come in pairs
- Say the colors of the rainbow in order
- Make up a riddle for the group
- Name three things smaller than a coin
Safe slices (6)
- Safe
- Spin again
- Pick who spins next
- Swap your challenge with someone
- Free pass on your next turn
- Spin twice, keep the easier one
About the wheel of doom
The wheel opens with all 53 slices from 5 groups: voices and songs, silly moves, faces and acting, brain teasers and safe slices. Every entry was written for this site, and all of them are listed below, so a parent or a teacher can read the whole wheel before anyone spins.
The doom is a joke. No slice uses food, a phone or anything that could hurt, and no challenge asks anyone to touch another person. The 6 safe slices mean not every spin ends in a challenge: one just says “Safe”, and another hands the next spin to a player of your choice.
To make the doom rarer, type “Safe” on a few more lines. Every extra line is one more slice, so “Safe” written on two lines is twice as likely as any challenge written once. For a game night with no repeats, switch on “Remove the winner after each spin”, and each challenge leaves the wheel once it has been done.
Ways to play the wheel of doom
- Go around a circle and let each person spin once, then do whatever lands before the next turn.
- Press “Brain teasers” when the room needs to stay seated and fairly quiet.
- Show the wheel on a big screen at a family party so everyone sees the doom land.
- Add a few dooms of your own on new lines, such as a family joke, and the wheel keeps them in this browser.
How to use the wheel
- Type or paste your options, one per line. The wheel redraws as you type.
- Press Spin, click the wheel, or press Ctrl+Enter while you are in the list.
- Read the pick. Remove it from the wheel if nobody should be picked twice, then spin again.
How the pick is made
Before the wheel moves, your browser draws one slice at random with crypto.getRandomValues, the same generator browsers use for security keys. Every slice has the same chance. The spin you watch only plays that result out.
Nothing about the animation changes the outcome: not how hard you click, not how long the wheel turns, not the size of your screen. The pointer always stops inside a slice, never on a line.
Your list stays in your browser. A link you copy carries the list inside the link itself, so nothing is uploaded.
Questions about the wheel of doom
- Is the wheel of doom okay for kids?
- Yes. The challenges were written for a room of kids, a family or friends, and none uses food, a phone or anything that could hurt. Every entry is printed on the page, so you can check them before the first spin.
- What happens if I land on a safe slice?
- Nothing scary. “Safe” means no challenge this turn, and some of the others let you spin again, choose the next spinner or swap your challenge with someone.
- Can I take out a challenge I don’t like?
- Yes. Delete that line from the list and the wheel redraws without it. The edited version stays in this browser for your next visit.
- How is this different from the punishment wheel?
- The punishment wheel holds forfeits for whoever loses a round. This one works on any turn, win or lose, and a few of its slices let you off completely.