Chore Wheel

A chore wheel shares out household chores at random, so the dishes, the laundry and the trash stop landing on the same person. Instead of a negotiation every Sunday, everyone watches the wheel decide, and “why is it always me?” loses its argument.

This chore wheel comes ready to use: 12 common chores, Elimination mode switched on, and four names set as result titles. Each spin goes to the next person in line and shows “Emma’s chore: Vacuum”, then “Noah’s chore: …”. After 12 spins, every chore has an owner and everyone has exactly three.

1. Edit the chores so they match your home: delete what you don’t have, add what is missing.
2. In Settings, type your household’s names in “Result titles”, one per line.
3. Spin. The result shows whose chore it is, then that chore leaves the wheel.
4. Keep spinning until the wheel is empty, then copy the list from the Results tab.

Random is not the same as equal: cleaning the bathroom takes longer than watering the plants. A few tips:

• Keep a number of chores that divides by the number of people. Twelve works for 2, 3, 4 or 6.
• Pair a heavy job with a light one on the same line, like “Bathroom + plants”.
• Allow one trade per person after the spin, if both sides agree.
• Count the invisible jobs too: planning meals, booking appointments, buying birthday presents.

Spin once a week, for example on Sunday evening, and the schedule is set until the next one. The next week, press “Reset all” to bring every chore back and spin again: the jobs are reshuffled, so over a month the bathroom moves around. The Results tab keeps the history; export it as CSV to open in a spreadsheet and print it for the fridge.

Tap the Kids chip to keep only the six child-friendly chores. As a rough guide:

• Ages 3 to 5: put toys away, put clothes in the hamper, water plants with help.
• Ages 6 to 7: make their bed, set the table, feed a pet, match socks.
• Ages 8 to 10: take out the trash, vacuum a room, load the dishwasher.
• 11 and up: clean the bathroom, cook a simple meal, do a load of laundry.

Children accept a chore more easily when they spin for it themselves.

In a shared apartment, send the wheel to the group chat by link or straight to WhatsApp, ticking “read-only” so nobody quietly edits the list. Everyone sees the same chores and the same spin. Then let the what to eat wheel pick the shared dinner and the who pays wheel settle the grocery bill. With a big household, the random team generator forms cleaning pairs.

Yes. On the first spin, each of the 12 chores has the same chance, 1 in 12, about 8.3%. Every result is drawn by the browser’s cryptographic generator before the wheel turns, so no flick of the finger can dodge the bathroom. The fairness page explains the method and lets you test it.