Spinner (game)

Spinner (game)

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

#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.
#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.


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