Who Pays the Bill?

The plates are cleared, the check lands on the table and the usual routine starts: three people reach for their wallets at once, or nobody does. The who pays wheel turns that awkward moment into a game. Type the names of everyone at the table, spin, and the wheel picks who pays the bill.

It is set up for drama: the Suspense style stretches the spin to nine seconds and slows the last turns right down, and the result window announces “Pays the bill” above the unlucky name. It works best for small bills and coffee runs among friends who eat out often, where paying once in a while evens out.

1. Replace the four sample names with the people at the table, one per line.
2. Agree on the rules out loud before anyone spins.
3. Put the phone in the middle of the table and press Spin, or let the person who suggested the restaurant do it.
4. Accept the verdict, then share it in the group chat.

Four rules keep it fun:

• One spin, final result. No “best of three” once the name is out.
• Everyone at the table is in the wheel, including whoever suggested the game.
• Set a limit. For a big dinner, spin only for dessert, the tip or the coffees, and split the rest.
• Go easy on last time’s payer. Untick their name, or end their line with *0.5 to halve their chance; the percentages show up so everyone can see it.

Only two of you? A coin flip is quicker. Still arguing about where to eat? Spin the what to eat wheel first.

The Suspense spin lasts nine seconds instead of five, and the wheel crawls through the final slices, overshooting by a hair before settling back. For extra tension, turn on Mystery in Settings: every slice shows a question mark, so nobody knows where their name sits until the pointer stops. You can also enable the Stop button and let the group yell “Stop!”; the result was drawn at the start and does not change, only the moment of the reveal.

At work, the wheel settles the coffee run, the pastries for Friday’s meeting or the next team lunch order. Switch the mode to Elimination and it becomes a fair rotation: whoever paid leaves the wheel, and nobody pays twice before every colleague has paid once. The state is saved, so next week the wheel remembers where you stopped. For a running tally instead, Accumulation mode counts how many times each name has come up and shows a scoreboard.

Tap Share in the result window to create a square or story-sized image with the name, the wheel, the date and the time, then send it straight to the group chat. Or send the wheel itself, so the next outing starts with the same names. Need a playful penalty for whoever left early? The punishment wheel has 60 ideas.

Yes. With four names, each person has exactly a 25% chance, drawn by your browser’s cryptographic generator before the wheel moves, so nobody can flick it toward a friend. Whoever paid last time also has a 25% chance of paying again: when it happens, that is chance, not a grudge. Test it yourself on the fairness page.