Charades wheel
Spin a wheel for a random charades word. Easy, act-it-out prompts for parties, classrooms, and family games.
Press Space to spin · F for fullscreen
12 entries
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How to use the charades wheel
Twelve easy charades prompts, all of them actions with an obvious shape. They work for young children and for a room of adults who have had a long day — no film titles, no book quotes, nothing that needs specialist knowledge.
Spin
Click the wheel or press Space. Let the actor spin, then hide the screen from the guessing team before they read the slice.
Read the result
The winning slice is chosen with the browser’s cryptographic random number generator before the animation starts, so the spin plays out a decision that has already been made fairly.
Edit, share, or project it
The list stays editable — add, remove, or reorder lines and the wheel redraws. Copy the share link to send your version to someone else, or go fullscreen so the wheel is readable across a room.
About this tool
Charades survives because it needs nothing: no equipment, no setup, and no shared culture beyond the words on the list. That last point is what breaks most prompt lists — a 1990s sitcom is a dead round for half the room.
Physical actions are the safe default. Everyone knows what fishing looks like, and the comedy comes from the performance rather than from the difficulty of the clue.
Frequently asked questions
- How long should each round be?
- Sixty to ninety seconds is the usual limit. Open the countdown timer on a second tab or a second screen if you want the pressure to be visible.
- Can I use harder words?
- Yes — paste your own list. Films, songs, and idioms all work; just agree on the categories before you start so a team cannot argue afterwards.
- How do I stop the same prompt repeating?
- Tick “remove the winner after each spin,” and each prompt is used exactly once.