Spinner (game)

Twister spinner

Dreidel

A spinner is a method of randomly determining something in a game, often movement. There are several types of spinners:

1. A balanced arrow anchored to a hard backing, usually cardboard, with printed sections. A spinner is used in some games instead of dice because a spinner provides more space to print text or images. This type of spinner may have different-sized sections to provide a random distribution that would be more difficult to achieve with dice.
2. A balanced wheel with pins along the outer edge and a flipper fixed to the base. As the wheel spins the flipper strikes the pins and slows the wheel's momentum. The flipper typically has a plastic or metal spring mechanism.
3. A polyhedral top that is spun (rather than rolled like dice) to produce a random result. An example of this type of spinner is a dreidel.