What to Eat Today? Spin the Wheel
Type the food options you'd actually consider — Pizza, Sushi, Tacos, Burgers, Pad Thai, the leftovers in the fridge, that delivery place you keep forgetting — and tap the wheel. Four seconds of easing animation later, one option wins. The page seeds the wheel with six common dinner picks so it works on first load, and you can add up to 20 options, remove anything you don't want, and re-spin without losing your list mid-session. The same wheel doubles as a generic decision picker for what to watch, what to wear, where to go for the weekend, which chore to tackle first, or who pays the next round.
Why this beats arguing
Decision fatigue around food is a real cost. Couples and roommates spend an average of 132 hours a year deciding what to eat (Doordash 2018 consumer survey) and the cognitive load is highest when both people are hungry and equally indifferent — the classic "I don't know, what do you want?" loop. Outsourcing the choice to a wheel breaks the deadlock without anyone having to commit to a preference. The randomness is real: each spin uses 5-10 full rotations plus a uniformly random extra angle backed by crypto.getRandomValues, so neither the click timing nor the previous result biases the next one. Each segment is a CSS conic-gradient slice sized at exactly 360°/N, so the visual probability matches the math. The wheel also works for non-food decisions: what to watch tonight, which restaurant in walking distance, what to cook with what's already in the fridge, what to order for the team lunch, where to go on the next short trip, or any "pick one of N" where the options are roughly equivalent and the only thing standing between you and dinner is the choosing.
- Pre-seeded with 6 dinner options (Pizza, Sushi, Tacos, Burgers, Pasta, Salad) — works on first load
- Add up to 20 custom food options or any other choices on the fly
- Click-X to remove, Enter to add — list survives every spin in the same session
- Web Crypto entropy + 5-10 rotations + random extra angle — no click-timing bias
- Conic-gradient segments sized at 360°/N — visual probability matches the math
- Confetti on the winning segment + 4-second easing animation
- Generic enough for what to watch / what to wear / what to do, not just food
- Mobile-friendly tap targets and full keyboard input
- No accounts, no analytics, no per-spin server roundtrip — runs in your browser
- Useful for couples, roommates, families, group lunches, team Slack polls, weekend planning
100% free. No signup required. No data collected or sent anywhere.