Random Number Wheel 1 to 6
This wheel picks a random number from 1 to 6, which makes it a stand-in for a six-sided die whenever the physical dice have gone missing under the sofa.
Six slices, one through six. Functionally a die, in wheel form.
The reason this range exists as its own page is board games. Someone always loses a die, usually mid-game, usually the one game where the dice are a non-standard colour and cannot be swapped in from another box. A wheel on a phone in the middle of the table solves it without anybody going to look in the sofa.
It is also a fairer die than most physical dice, which is a strange thing to say but true. Cheap injection-moulded dice have shallow bias from the pips being drilled out — a six has more material removed than a one, so the weight is very slightly off. A wheel drawn from a cryptographic generator has no such asymmetry.
If you want the roll to look like a roll, the 3D dice roller animates real dice and rolls up to six at once.
Random Number Wheel 1 to 6 — questions
Is this fairer than a real die?
Marginally, yes. Cheap dice carry a slight bias because drilling the pips removes more material from the six face than the one. The wheel draws from a cryptographically secure generator with no physical asymmetry at all.
Can I roll two dice at once?
Spin twice and add the results, or use the 3D dice roller, which rolls up to six dice simultaneously and gives you proper two-dice probability distributions for games like Monopoly and Catan.
Can I use it for a twenty-sided die?
Add slices numbered up to 20 and it works, though for tabletop RPGs a dedicated polyhedral roller will suit you better. This wheel and the dice roller both cover standard six-sided dice.