New Year Wheel – Frequently Asked Questions

It's a spinning wheel preset with New Year activities, challenges, and celebration options. Common uses: spin to pick the next New Year's Eve game, decide who makes the countdown toast, assign resolutions randomly in a group, or pick activities for a family New Year's celebration. The presets cover both party-style and reflective/goal-setting uses.

Yes — clear the presets and add whatever you want. If your group has specific traditions or games, put those on the wheel. You can mix activities ("midnight dance," "champagne toast") with challenges ("share your best memory from this year") and decisions ("pick the next movie"). The wheel handles any text on any number of segments.

Yes — share your screen on a video call and spin live. Everyone sees the same result simultaneously. For remote parties, this is a way to run group activities without needing everyone on the same platform's game system. The spin animation and celebration effect give it enough visual interest that it works on camera.

Yes. The wheel is touch-enabled — tap to spin. On a phone passed around a group, each person taps and gets their result. On a tablet propped up at a party table, people can walk up and spin it like a game show wheel. The fullscreen mode makes it fill the screen so it's clearly visible.

Yes — teachers often use it the first week of January for ice-breaker activities. Segments like "share one goal for the year," "name one thing you're proud of from last year," or "predict something fun that will happen this year" work well projected on a classroom screen. Students spin and respond to wherever it lands.

There's no strict maximum, but readability decreases above about 20 segments on most screens. For parties, 8–12 options works best — enough variety that the result feels surprising, but few enough that each segment is clearly readable. On a projector, keep to 10 or fewer for visibility from the back of the room.

Yes — after a spin result, you can hide or remove that segment so it won't be picked again. This is useful for running through a list of activities where each should only happen once during the event. Remove each completed activity as you go and the wheel shows only the remaining options.

The wheel itself doesn't have a built-in countdown. For New Year's Eve use, most groups simply use a phone timer or online countdown clock alongside the wheel. The wheel is for picking activities, challenges, and who gives a toast — not for the countdown itself.

The wheel isn't shareable via link — your custom entries aren't encoded in the URL. For shared use, the simplest approach is to have everyone in the same physical or virtual room, with one person controlling the wheel visible on a shared screen. Remote parties use screen sharing on Zoom, Meet, or Teams to show the wheel to everyone simultaneously.