How Spin the Wheel Can Be Used When Playing Games With Friends

When friends and family get together, party games are often used as an icebreaker to warm up the atmosphere. This is great when you are meeting after a long time and need some time to warm up to each other.

With party games, everyone can harmlessly have some fun and rekindle old feelings of friendship and camaraderie. Today, we are going to look at how you can improve your experience of party games by using Spin the Wheel–a free wheel spinner with lots of customizability options.

What is Spin the Wheel?

Spin-the-Wheel.net is an online wheel spinning tool. Simply put, you can spin the wheel to randomly select one of its slices. The slices can contain images, text, or colors. You can add up to 1,000 slices to a wheel. The wheel has options to hide slices or delete them.

If you create an account, you can save your custom wheels and load them whenever you like. This means you can create multiple wheels for different games and purposes and load them when you need them.

Now that we know the basics of how Spin the Wheel works let’s check out how we can use it when playing games.

Spin the Wheel and its Role In Games

1. Play Trivia Games

One of the more popular party game types is trivia games. Trivia refers to quizzes about interesting topics, but the questions themselves are about unimportant things that most people wouldn’t pay attention to.

With Spin the Wheel, you can create two types of wheels: one for questions and one for selecting participants. First, you spin the wheel to decide which person will answer a question. Then, you can spin the other wheel to select the question itself.

Another approach you can take is to only create the questions wheel, and everybody has to answer a question. Each question that was correctly answered can be hidden so that nobody else gets a repeat question.

In this way, you can hold a fun trivia game where everyone gets to play and give interesting answers.

2. Play Truth or Dare

Truth or dare is a staple in party games. The game forces people to either answer an uncomfortable truth or do a daring task that requires boldness and shamelessness. Different groups have different standards for how far they can take things. Usually, the game is pretty tame. Truths really only ask vague questions or about one’s opinion on certain things, while dares are usually harmless pranks.

There are several ways in which you can use a wheel spinner for truth and dare. The first method is to use a Truth or Dare Wheel. This is a wheel that only has ‘truth’ and ‘dare’ slices on it. Instead of letting the participant choose between truth or dare, the wheel chooses for them. This makes the game more interesting and fun.

Another method is where you can create two wheels for truth and dare. One with a bunch of questions for people who chose truth, and one for people who chose dare. This way, participants know what to expect, and even if they get some awkward questions or dares, they will have some solace in knowing it was randomly decided.

As is the case with the trivia game, you will need to go through each participant one by one. This time, though, you only hide slices once everyone has gotten it. In case somebody gets the same slice twice, you can spin the wheel again to give them a different question/task.

3. Use for Punishment Games

Punishment games are very fun to play in group settings. Both truth and dare as well as trivia games, can be treated as punishment games. For example, if somebody chooses to forfeit in truth and dare, they have to take a punishment. If they get an answer wrong in the trivia game, they have to be punished.

With Spin the Wheel, you can create a custom wheel to randomly select an appropriate penalty for people who lose in the games. Here are some harmless punishments you can put on the wheel.

• Get people to do a funny dance
• Mime something stupid
• Speak in an accent for the rest of the game
• Put on a silly costume
• Speak only in questions
• Impersonate someone for the rest of the round

These are some funny punishments you can use on your punishment wheel. You can add more as you think of them.

4. Create Teams for Games

Some party games require teams. To select teams, you can use Spin the Wheel. With this tool, you can make the process more random, unbiased, and, most of all, fun.

There are several ways in which you can choose teams. For example, you can create just one wheel with all the participant names on it. Each consecutive person that gets chosen becomes part of one team. So, if there are teams of three, you spin the wheel thrice, and each selected participant will be part of that team. Then, you hide their names and spin the wheel three more times to select another team. You keep doing this until all teams are selected.

Another method is to create multiple wheels. Each wheel has different participants in it.  You spin multiple wheels at once, and all the selected entries become part of one team. To select which people are chosen for each wheel, you can create arbitrary categories. For example, all the people with glasses are on one team, people with dyed hair are on another, etc.

5. Select Prizes for Winners

At the end of a game, a winner needs to be crowned, and an appropriate reward needs to be provided.

Instead of simply giving out a reward, you can make the process more fun and add several rewards to a wheel. Then, you can spin the wheel to decide which reward is given to the winner.

You can use the contestants’ own suggestions for rewards and put them on the wheel as long as they are not unreasonable.

Some common examples of rewards include:

• Gift coupons
• Discount Coupons
• Gift cards
• A tasty dish
• A nifty gadget
• A fake medal/trophy

These are just some common rewards that you can give out to your contestants.

Conclusion

Spin the Wheel is a nifty tool for party games. We saw how it can be used to improve the games and promote fairness. Random selection of teams, questions, and punishments make everything feel fun, and there are no negative feelings involved. So, if you are planning an event where party games will be the main theme, then this tool is for you.