Create your own Wheel of Fortune-style game
Create and host a Wheel of Fortune-style game online with Word Wheel. Add custom puzzles for your classroom, party, or team event, with a separate audience screen.
Create your game
Build a browser-based word puzzle game with your own answers and categories. Choose 2–4 contestants, run the game from a private host panel, and share the wheel, letter board, and scores on a TV or projector.
Run the show from your hand. Put the excitement on the big screen.
Bring a TV-style game-show experience to your room. Host from your phone, tablet, or laptop while a separate audience screen keeps everyone focused on the game.

Your controls stay private
See the answer, spin the wheel, and select the letters contestants call out. Judge solves, pause for a break, or undo a mistake—all from your own device.
The room gets the show
Give your audience the animated wheel, one-by-one letter reveals, sound effects, and winner announcements on a TV or projector. Hidden answers and host controls stay off the big screen.
Keep the game moving
Your actions update the audience view and scores automatically. Keep both devices connected to the internet, open the audience link, and click to enable sound. Contestants simply call out their guesses.
Run the game like a TV show host
Built-in music and sound effects
You call the turns, reveal the letters, and cue applause from your own device while everyone watches the game on the big screen. Built-in music, wheel ticks, and reveal sounds bring the suspense; you set the pace, play to the crowd, and give each winner their moment.
Build the suspense
Hear every tick as the wheel slows down. Sound cues follow the letter reveals, so everyone can watch, listen, and guess along as the answer takes shape.
Give them a big finish
Someone finally gets it? The solve has its own sound effect. Add applause or a celebration from your host controls and give your winner a moment in the spotlight.
Make the room feel like a show
An opening sound kicks things off, and background music keeps the atmosphere going between the big moments. It all plays through the audience screen on your TV.
Easy to play. Easy to host.
Contestants call out their guesses. You run the show from your device, and the game takes care of the letters, sound effects, and scores.
Spin the wheel
Contestants call out letters while you spin the wheel and control the turns from your own device.
Reveal the puzzle
Matching letters appear on the big screen, with sound effects adding to the suspense as everyone works out the answer.
Celebrate the solve
Confirm the correct answer and the game updates the scores automatically. Add applause and give your winner a moment to enjoy it.
Create your game
See the full game rules
Start with a toss-up
Letters appear automatically. The first contestant to solve wins 1,000 banked points and takes the first turn. The host judges the answers.
Spin and call a consonant
A correct letter earns the wheel value for every match. Land on 600 and find two Ns? Earn 1,200 round points and keep playing. A missing letter passes the turn.
Buy a vowel
Spend 250 round points to call A, E, I, O, or U. The price covers every occurrence, and you pay even if the vowel is absent. Banked points cannot buy vowels.
Solve to bank your points
On your turn, solve without needing to spin first. A correct solve banks your round points, with a minimum payout of 1,000. An incorrect solve passes the turn but preserves your round points.
Watch out for penalties
Lose a Turn passes play to the next contestant. Bankrupt also clears your current round points. Neither takes away points already banked.
Win the game
Only the solver banks points from a regular puzzle; everyone else’s unbanked points are lost when the round ends. After the final puzzle, the highest banked total wins. Equal top totals share the win.
How to create and host a Word Wheel game
Choose your puzzles
Browse the puzzle library or add your own answers and categories. Pick an opening toss-up, then arrange the regular rounds in the order you want to play.
Name your contestants
Add 2–4 contestant names and drag them into playing order. For a team event, use team names and let each team nominate a spokesperson.
Open the audience screen
Keep the host panel on your device and put the audience view on a TV, projector, or second screen. Click to enter the audience view and enable its sound.
Host the game
Start the toss-up, judge spoken answers, and control turns. During regular rounds, spin for the contestant and click their chosen letter. Matching letters reveal and scores update automatically.
A few ways to use Word Wheel with your group
Made for your group
Start with something you already have planned—a lesson, a team get-together, or a family party. Add puzzles about the people or topics involved, then host a few rounds together.
Organizations & workplace teams
Welcoming new hires? Pair them with coworkers and play a few rounds about your products or company traditions. For training sessions, use terms you have just covered and talk through each answer before moving on.
Classrooms & school groups
Take the vocabulary from this week’s lesson and use it as your puzzle answers. Let students work in teams, then ask them to explain a word after they solve it. You get a classroom review activity and a chance to hear which ideas need another explanation.
Churches & youth ministries
Planning a fellowship night? Churches can mix familiar hymns and Bible stories into rounds for different ages. In Sunday school, use answers from the lesson you just taught and pause after a solve to talk about the story together.
Parties & family gatherings
For a birthday party, make a few puzzles about the person you are celebrating—their favorite food, a hobby, or something they always say. At family gatherings, try shared memories and inside jokes, and leave time for the stories that come with each answer.
Clubs & community groups
At your next club meeting, pair new members with people who know the group. Build puzzles around your shared hobby or local landmarks so everyone has something to contribute. A few rounds can give new members an easy way to start talking.
Senior centers & activity groups
For your next activity session, try familiar song titles, sayings, or places your group knows. Put the board on a TV and let people call out their answers—no player phones needed. You control the pace and can pause whenever a puzzle starts a conversation.
Before you host
Do contestants need a phone or an app?
No. This version is host-controlled: contestants say their letters and answers aloud. For the toss-up, they can shout out or use physical buzzers, and the host judges who answered.
What equipment do I need?
Use an internet-connected device for the host panel and a browser window for the audience view. A TV, projector, or second display helps the whole room see the board. Keep the private host panel off the audience display.
Can I create my own Wheel of Fortune game with custom puzzles?
You can create an independent version of that game-show format with Word Wheel. Write your answers, choose or create categories, and arrange the puzzles into rounds. Your puzzles are private by default. Answers can contain up to 60 characters, with no more than 15 per word.
What can I customize, and what is already set up?
Choose the puzzles, their round order, the game name, and contestant names. The wheel values and scoring rules are already configured. You do not need to design a wheel or build a scoring spreadsheet.
Can I play with teams?
Yes. Use the 2–4 contestant slots for individuals or team names. Teams can discuss their guesses and have one spokesperson answer; the host manages turns and judging.
Is this a downloadable template?
No. You create and host the game in your browser with an internet connection. There is no PowerPoint file to download or presentation software to install.
Is this a Wheel of Fortune-style game?
Word Wheel uses the familiar spin, guess letters, buy vowels, and solve format. It is an independent game on Family Face-Off, not the official Wheel of Fortune game. Its rules are simplified for hosting your own event.
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