Spin the chore wheel
Chores feel less unfair when the wheel picks them. Choose a list, have everyone take a turn spinning, and remove each chore as it’s claimed. When the wheel is empty, every chore has an owner.
- Kids: age-friendly jobs like feeding the pet, setting the table and matching socks.
- Roommates: trash, bathroom, dishes and shared supplies.
- Weekly cleaning: the full list for a weekend reset.
- 10-minute jobs: quick tasks for a speed clean before guests arrive.
- Outdoor: lawn, leaves, weeds and the car.
How to hand out chores
- Load the list and edit it to match your home. Add the chores you actually have, delete the ones you don’t.
- Take turns spinning. Youngest first is a nice tradition.
- Remove each chore when it comes up, so it can’t be assigned twice.
- Repeat until the wheel is empty, then put everything back for next week.
Tip: Got more chores than people? Keep spinning in turns until the wheel is empty. Everyone ends up with about the same number.
Two ways to spin
Spin for chores. Everyone spins this wheel and gets whatever chore it lands on. Best when everyone is in the room.
Spin for people. Put everyone’s names on the wheel of names and spin once for each chore on your list. Best when you’re writing up a schedule for the week.
Make it a game
- Chore bingo: spin a chore, do it, mark it on a card. First row done gets to pick dessert.
- Speed round: set a timer, spin, and race to finish before it goes off.
- Swap token: everyone gets one swap per week to trade a chore with someone else.
- Day of the week: spin 1 to 7 to pick which day each chore happens.
Fair, and it looks fair
The wheel picks with your browser’s cryptographic random number generator before it spins. Nobody can rig it, and everyone can watch the result land. For splitting the house into chore teams, try the random team generator.