Roda 1, 10
Pick a number between 1 and 10. SpinyWheel's 1–10 Wheel holds all ten whole numbers and gives each one a flat 10 percent chance, which is more than can be said for the human version of the same request. Teachers, gamers, and tiebreakers spin it.
Why does everyone pick 7?
Ask a room to name a number from 1 to 10 and 7 comes back far more often than 10 percent of the time. Informal surveys of the question have landed on it repeatedly, and the usual explanation is that 7 feels the least chosen, which is exactly why it gets chosen.
The reasoning behind it is worth watching. People skip 1 and 10 as too obvious, skip 5 as the boring middle, and avoid even numbers because they feel less arbitrary. What is left is 3 and 7, and 7 wins. Every one of those moves is a preference, which means a human "random" number is not random at all. SpinyWheel's 1–10 Wheel has no such instinct, so 7 lands 10 percent of the time and so does 10.
What are the odds on a 1–10 wheel?
Every number on SpinyWheel's 1–10 Wheel holds a 1 in 10 chance and occupies a 36 degree slice. Those odds do not shift with history, so a number that just landed is exactly as likely as one absent for fifty spins.
What grows with more spins is coverage, not fairness:
| Spins | Chance a given number has appeared |
|---|---|
| 1 | 10% |
| 3 | 27.1% |
| 7 | 52.2% |
| 10 | 65.1% |
| 22 | 90.2% |
Ten spins is not enough to see all ten numbers. It takes about 29 on average, and the last two hold out longest. Anyone who expects a full sweep in ten is applying deck-of-cards logic to a wheel that keeps every number in play every time.
The wheel and the ten sided die
A ten sided die produces the same flat 10 percent, so the math is identical, but the physical die carries a quirk: most d10s are numbered 0 through 9, with the 0 face read as 10 by convention. That trips people up in games where 0 and 10 mean different things.
A wheel avoids the translation because the labels say what they mean. If you actually want zero as its own outcome rather than a stand-in, the Roda numérica final 0, 10 holds eleven numbers at 9.1 percent each. For larger draws the 100 Número drops each number to 1 percent, and the Sim ou Não covers the times a number was never the question.
Drawing several numbers without repeats
Delete each result before the next spin and ten draws produce all ten numbers in exactly ten spins. Leave the list alone and the same ten spins will typically miss three or four numbers entirely while repeating others.
Which behavior you want depends on the job. A tiebreaker wants independent spins, since each round should start fresh. Assigning ten people to ten slots wants removal, because a repeat there is not a fun coincidence, it is two people holding the same slot. The how-to guide covers building the list, and the Dicas goes into running a draw people will accept.
FAQ
Cada giro é independente, portanto, todos os dez números têm 10% sempre, não importa o que veio antes. Dois giros correspondentes consecutivos acontecem uma vez a cada 10 pares, e um número nomeado que faz isso acontece uma vez a cada 100. Clusters como esse são a saída comum de giros independentes, e sua completa ausência seria o resultado suspeito.
Porque as pessoas filtram antes de responder. As pontas parecem óbvias, o meio parece preguiçoso e até os números parecem muito organizados, o que deixa 7 como o número que parece mais arbitrário. Todos que raciocinam dessa forma chegam ao mesmo lugar, então as respostas aleatórias se aglomeram. Uma roda salta o raciocínio e pousa onde pousa.
Remova cada resultado da lista antes da próxima rodada, o que dá todos os dez em exatamente dez rodadas, sem duplicatas. Se não forem tocadas, dez rodadas geralmente deixam três ou quatro números invisíveis. A cobertura completa sem remoção leva em média cerca de 29 giros, aproximadamente três vezes o comprimento da lista.
Sim. Edite a lista de entradas e as probabilidades seguem: vinte números dão 5% para cada, onze dão 9,1% para cada, cinco dão 20% para cada um. O giro, o ponteiro e a leitura do resultado funcionam da mesma forma em qualquer comprimento de lista, portanto, apenas a aritmética na tela muda.
Spin it, read the number, and resist the urge to say you were thinking of 7.