Resources
A small, deliberately slow-growing library about the things WheelOurNames is actually built on: random selection, probability, classrooms, teams and fair draws. Every product-specific claim is checked against the real implementation before publication.
Classroom & Education
Random selection and grouping techniques for lessons, and the trade-offs behind them.
Randomness & Probability
What makes a draw genuinely fair, where bias hides, and how to check a picker.
- How Random Name Pickers Work: Randomness, Bias and Fair SelectionWhere the random number comes from, how it is mapped onto your list, the bias that naive mapping introduces, and how to judge any picker.
- Weighted Random Selection Explained: How Different Chances WorkWeights as relative shares rather than percentages, with worked examples, probability tables and the mistakes people make when reading them.
- Random Selection Without Replacement: What It Means and When to Use ItWith versus without replacement, why the odds change after each removal, and how auto-remove, multi-winner draws and shuffles relate.
Giveaways & Fair Draws
Running prize draws your audience can actually verify.
Practical Guides
Worked answers to the questions that come up once you start using random tools.
- Random Teams vs Balanced Teams: Which Should You Use?What a random team generator actually guarantees, what it cannot do, and when you need ability balancing instead.
- How to Embed a Random Wheel on a Website or Classroom PageWhat an iframe embed is, how to generate the code, platform-by-platform notes for WordPress, Google Sites, Canvas and Moodle, and the privacy trade-offs.
- Wheel vs List Randomizer vs Team Generator: Which Should You Use?A decision guide with real scenarios: one pick, a full random order, or groups — and when the visually engaging wheel is the wrong tool.
Looking for the tools themselves? They are listed on all tools, and the technical randomness documentation lives on the fairness page.