Raffle winner picker
Paste your ticket numbers or entrant names and draw them live. Each winner is removed before the next prize by default, so a three-prize raffle produces three different people without you having to remember to edit the list.
Drawing several prizes in order
Draw the biggest prize first and remove the winner before drawing the next. That is the convention almost every raffle follows, and the reason is practical rather than ceremonial: if you draw the small prizes first, the person who wins one is still in the hat for the big one, and now you have to decide in public whether they can win twice.
Removing the winner is on by default here for exactly that reason. Each name that comes out stays listed on screen as a drawn winner, so at the end of a five-prize raffle you can read the whole thing back in order without having written anything down.
If your raffle explicitly allows one person to win more than once — some do, particularly where tickets were bought rather than given — turn the option off and every draw becomes independent again. Say which rule you are using before the first spin, not after somebody's name comes up twice.
People who bought more than one ticket
Two ways to handle it, and the difference matters more than it looks. Paste the person's name once per ticket and they get that many slices; or write Sara Ahmed:6 and they get one slice six times the width. The odds are identical.
For a room, the repeated-name version is better. Six slices labelled "Sara Ahmed" is visibly six chances, and nobody has to trust that a number after a colon did what it claimed. One wide slice is easier to read but requires the audience to take the weighting on faith, which is the one thing a live draw is supposed to avoid.
For a list of four hundred tickets, use the weights — four hundred slices are unreadable either way, and at that point the wheel is a formality over a list that ought to be checked before the draw rather than during it.
Before you rely on this for a real raffle
A raffle where money changed hands is often a regulated lottery, and the rules are national, specific, and not what most organisers assume. In England and Wales small society lotteries have to be registered with the local authority; in the US the rules are state by state and several states prohibit private raffles outright. Check before you sell a ticket, not before you draw one.
What a wheel gives you is transparency, not an audit trail. It is very good at convincing a room that the draw was fair, because they watched it happen. It records nothing, proves nothing afterwards, and is not evidence. If your draw needs to be defensible later, record the screen, have a named independent witness, and write down the entrant list before you start.
Common questions
How do I pick a raffle winner fairly?
Fix the entrant list before you start, show it on screen, and draw in front of the people affected. Draw the largest prize first and remove each winner before the next draw, so nobody can win twice unless you have said in advance that they can.
How do I give someone more than one ticket?
Either paste their name once per ticket, which shows as that many slices on the wheel, or add a colon and a number — Sara Ahmed:6 gives one slice six times the normal width. The odds are the same; repeated names are more convincing to a live audience.
Is a wheel spin legally valid for a prize draw?
It has no special legal standing anywhere. A paid raffle is often a regulated lottery with registration requirements that vary by country and by US state. The wheel makes a draw visibly fair to the room; it does not make it compliant, and it keeps no record.