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Spin the bottle online, for parties and classrooms

This spin the bottle game puts a bottle in the middle of your screen. Tap it, and it spins, slows down and stops pointing at someone. It is a quick, fair way to choose who goes first, who answers the next question or who picks the next song. This version is family friendly: the bottle only chooses a person, and your group decides what happens next. It is free, with no account, and it works in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer.

How it works

• Spin. Tap the bottle, press Spin, or press the Space bar. The bottle spins, slows down and stops at a random angle.
• Players, if you want them. Tap Players in the bottom bar and type the names, one per line. The players sit in a circle around the bottle, and when it stops, the one it points to is announced on screen.
• No names needed. Without names, the bottle simply points in a direction, which is all you need when everyone sits around the screen.
• Saved for next time. The list of players is saved in this browser, so your family or your class is ready the next time you open the page on the same device.
• Sound and colors. The spin comes with a sound, and the Sound button in the bottom bar turns it off. The round button at the bottom right changes the page color.
• Full screen. The full screen button in the header makes the bottle big enough for a TV, a projector or a shared screen in a video call.

Two ways to play

The phone in the middle

Lay a phone or a tablet flat in the middle of the table or on the floor, and sit in a circle around it. Spin, and the bottle points at a real person. It is the classic way to play, without a glass bottle that can roll off the table or break. Try to sit at even distances around the screen, so nobody gets a bigger slice of the circle.

Names on the screen

When people sit on a couch, in rows in a classroom or in a video call, a circle does not work. Add their names instead. They appear around the bottle, the result is announced by name, and nobody argues about who the bottle really points at.

Game ideas for all ages

• Who goes first. Board games, card games, the first turn on the video game. Spin once and start playing.
• Icebreaker questions. The person the bottle picks answers a question: favorite food, dream trip, a talent nobody knows about. For ready-made questions, pair it with would you rather.
• Truth or dare. Let the bottle choose the player, then open truth or dare for a clean truth or a fun dare at the kids or teens level.
• Classroom turns. Who reads the next paragraph, who answers the review question, who presents first. Put the class list on the projector in full screen.
• Family chores. Who sets the table, who walks the dog, who picks the movie tonight.
• Team warm-ups. At a meeting or a workshop, the bottle picks who introduces themselves next or who shares a good news story from the week.

Is the online bottle fair?

A real bottle is not always fair. A bump in the carpet, a tilted table or the way someone flicks it can make it stop in the same places again and again. The online bottle stops at an angle chosen by your browser's cryptographic random generator, the same kind of source used for security, so every direction is equally likely.

With names added, every player around the bottle has the same chance on every spin:

Each spin is independent. The bottle has no memory, so the same person can be picked twice in a row while someone else waits a while for a turn. That is simply how randomness works. If everyone must get exactly one turn, the random name picker with Remove picked names does that, and the list randomizer puts the whole group in a random order at once.

Your players' names stay on your device. They are saved only in your own browser, nothing is sent to a server, and the game keeps working offline once the page has loaded, at a cabin or on a camping trip.