Ohmyluck. Random and free draws to animate your class

Last updated on 26 February 2026

Monday morning, 9 a.m. You ask the class a question. Silence embarrassed. The same three hands rise, the others hope to be forgotten. What if chance were involved? I tested Ohmyluck, a free site that brings together several online sweepstakes tools. More complete than Fluky which I presented some time ago, it goes far beyond just the wheel. No registration, no pervasive advertising, an interface that goes straight to the point. This is what I thought.

The wheel of luck: the tool you will use the most

This is Ohmyluck’s heart and, frankly, it is well done. You enter a list of names or options, you click, the wheel rotates. A few seconds of suspense and a winner appears. Simple. Almost too simple to think about using … until you get a taste of it.

What I liked is that we can import a list directly from a text file. If you already have your student lists in a spreadsheet or document, a copy-paste is enough. You can also automatically remove winners after each draw to avoid duplicate entries, or mix entries with one click. The ‘Winners’ tab keeps track of all your prints, which can be exported if necessary.

In language courses, the wheel designates who will be questioned without anyone feeling targeted. In science, she randomly assigns subjects for presentation. In civic education, she draws lots for the order in which a debate takes place. The show side, the wheel that turns before the eyes of the whole class, adds a playful touch that captures the attention.
The first time I projected it, I saw several students straightening up almost instantly. Oddly enough, chance always seems fairer than the teacher.

The site also offers predefined lists: Yes/No to decide a question, Country for a geography exercise. Appreciable detail: your data remains stored in the browser. When you come back, everything is still there. You don't have to do it all over again every session, and it counts.

Pile or face and dice roller: two well-thought-out classics

Ohmyluck does not stop at the wheel. The pile or face Digital allows you to launch up to 100 pieces at once and, above all, to personalise the text on each side. Write "Group A" and "Group B" instead of "Pile" and "Face", or "True" and "False" for a quick quiz. In EPS, it breaks down in a second which team engages. To go further in the formation of groups in class, other tools exist, but for a single stack or face, Ohmyluck does the job.

The dice thrower I was surprised by his wealth. Beyond the classic 6-sided die, it offers 4, 8, 10, 12, 20 and even 100-sided dice. The ‘Mix different dice’ mode allows you to combine several types into a single throw and display the total. A simple idea of activity: Throw 3 6-sided dice and ask students to calculate the product of the three results as quickly as possible. From mental calculus instantaneous, without preparation.

Letters, numbers, countries, colours: the Complete Toolkit

Ohmyluck also embarks several Random generators, and the one that seduced me the most was the Letter Generator. It supports more than 20 alphabets: French, English, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian … Launch a random letter and ask each student to find five words starting with this letter in thirty seconds.

In modern language classes, do the same in the target language. If you're looking to extend the vocabulary work, take a look at WordWise, a digital vocabulary notebook to anchor the learned words. The site even offers a ‘Scattergories’ mode that excludes difficult letters like Q, X or Z. I would have loved to have that when I was running vocabulary workshops.

The Number Generator (minimum, maximum, quantity of choice) is useful in math to create series of exercises on the fly or draw a question number. The country generator displays a country with its flag and position on an interactive map, filterable by continent. In geography, it is an easy-to-find session trigger: Who can locate this country for me? What is its capital?

I also mention the Color Generator (hexadecimal codes, pastel styles, vivid, dark …), more useful in visual arts or techno to assign a palette to each group.

Free, no registration and data-friendly

This is the point that first attracted me: everything is free and requires no account. No need to give your email address or that of your students. The site is available in French and around 15 other languages, along the lines of Responsible Digital Tools This is appreciated in schools.

The interface is sober, fast, and works on smartphones, tablets and computers, an asset for classroom projection. No data is sent to a server : everything is stored locally in your browser. For school use, it is reassuring. There is a bit of publicity but it remains very reasonable.

Limits to Know

Ohmyluck is the work of an independent developer. It is a personal project, not a company with a team behind it. The site does not have a dedicated mobile application and there is no collaborative functionality: It is impossible to share a wheel with a colleague via a link, for example. Local-only storage also means that if you change your browser or clear your cache, your lists disappear.

These limits are minor in terms of the service provided, but it is better to know them before using the tool on a daily basis.

And then, let's be honest: In the classroom, a new, comprehensive digital environment is not always needed. Sometimes a simple, immediate tool, without setting the parameters, is more than enough to relaunch attention or boost an activity. These are often the ones you open ‘just for today’ … and end up staying in the browser’s favourites.

A site to keep under the elbow

Ohmyluck is not going to upset the way you teach. He doesn't do everything, but he does a good thing : gather in the same place, without friction, all these small tools of chance that we regularly need in class. Where it was necessary to search on the right and on the left, everything is gathered on a single page.

If you still use pieces of paper in a hat to randomly draw a student, you will save time. And probably a few smiles from your students in front of the spinning wheel. In the same playful spirit, do not miss Puzzlegenio to create crosswords and pedagogical games, or Flippity which offers 25 fun activities for the class.

Ohmyluck can be accessed at this address: ohmyluck.com/fr