Dinosaur Wheel: Spin a Random Dinosaur

Dinosaur wheel with 12 dinosaurs, from Tyrannosaurus rex to Triceratops and Stegosaurus. Spin for a dino report, a drawing prompt or a guessing game.

Dino reports
Drawing prompts
Guessing games

On this wheel

Tyrannosaurus Rex
Triceratops
Velociraptor
Stegosaurus
Brachiosaurus
Spinosaurus
+6 more

Click the wheel to spin

Why use a dinosaur wheel

Twelve well-known dinosaurs are already on the wheel, so young fans can spin straight away. Spin for the dinosaur to draw, research or act out, and see who can name a fact about it first.

Hand out dinosaurs for a class report
Teachers can spin a dinosaur for each student and hide each winner, so every report is different.
Draw the dinosaur the wheel picks
Kids can spin and draw the dinosaur, then add one fact about it under the picture.
Act out a dinosaur for others to guess
Families and classes can spin in secret and act out the dinosaur while everyone else guesses.
Pick a dinosaur to find at the museum
Families can spin before a museum visit and go looking for that dinosaur’s fossils.

This wheel wears the Spinosaurus theme: a dino dig: a jungle volcano, fossil bones and a hatching egg. Your own copy keeps it, or pick another wheel theme.

How to use the dinosaur wheel

Click the wheel to spin it.
Wait for it to slow down and stop on a random entry. The winner pops up on screen.
Click “Hide & Respin” to take the winner out and spin again, so nothing is picked twice.
Click “Pick your dinosaurs” to save your own copy, change the entries, and share or embed it.

All 12 entries on the dinosaur wheel

Tyrannosaurus Rex
Triceratops
Velociraptor
Stegosaurus
Brachiosaurus
Spinosaurus
Ankylosaurus
Diplodocus
Allosaurus
Parasaurolophus
Iguanodon
Pachycephalosaurus

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the wheel really random?

Yes. Every entry has a slice of the same size, and where the wheel stops is picked with your browser’s cryptographically secure random number generator (crypto.getRandomValues), so nobody can predict or rig the result.

Can I change the entries on this wheel?

Yes. Click “Pick your dinosaurs” to save your own copy. You can then add, remove or rename entries, change the theme and spin settings, and share or embed your wheel.