🔤 Word games & class

Random Letter Generator

Twenty-six letters, one spin. It is the starting gun for half the word games ever invented — categories, Scattergories-style rounds, spelling practice, a writing prompt when the page is blank.

Click the wheel to try it — nothing is saved until you use it.

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For the games that need a letter

Name a country, an animal and a food starting with the letter it lands on; give a class a letter to spell words from; start a story with it. The wheel is doing something a generator also does, with the difference that everyone playing watched it land.

Drop the awkward letters

Copy the wheel and remove Q, X and Z if the game keeps grinding to a halt on them — or keep them and make them worth double. Vowels only, consonants only and a shortened alphabet for younger children are all a few edits away.

Questions about this wheel

Are all 26 letters equally likely?

Yes, every letter is one slice of the same size, and the spin uses a cryptographic random source. No letter is weighted unless you add it twice.

The letters look small — can I make them bigger?

Twenty-six slices is a lot for one wheel. Removing letters you do not need makes the rest larger, and the linear and card views show the same wheel with more room for each label.

How do I get a random letter?

Press spin: the wheel stops on one letter from A to Z, picked at random. Spin again for the next round, or copy the wheel and remove the letters that have already come up.

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