What is a tipping wheel for live streams?

A tipping wheel is an OBS overlay that spins when a viewer tips on your live stream. The wheel lands on a random slice — a reward, an action, a punishment — that the streamer has defined in advance. It turns a one-shot tip into a visible, shared mini-game.

What do the Boost and Reset tiers do?

Boost ×2 (default $10) and Boost ×3 (default $20) shift the weights of slices below the average upward (w + (avg - w) × 0.3 for ×2, × 0.6 for ×3). Reset (default $25) snaps every weight back to the average. Weight changes persist across spins until a Reset fires.

What happens if a tip doesn't match any tier?

Nothing fires. The Wheel uses exact-match tier comparison (within $0.01 to handle token conversions). A tip that doesn't equal a configured tier amount is registered as a regular tip but triggers no spin, boost, or reset.

Can I run multiple wheels in the same stream?

Yes. You can save multiple wheel presets (e.g. a tame one for warmup, a spicier one later in the stream) and switch between them mid-stream from the dashboard. The overlay updates instantly.

TipDeck has a 15-day free trial with full access to every game including the Wheel. After that it's a flat monthly subscription with no usage caps.

The Tipping Wheel for Live Streams — TipDeck Wheel

01What is the TipDeck Wheel?

A wheel of fortune for live streams — except every spin is paid for by a viewer tip, every result is visible to the whole room, and every outcome is something you defined ahead of time. It's the oldest game in the world, dropped into the most interactive medium that exists.

If you've ever watched a game show, you already know how it looks. The wheel has eight slices (or as many as you want — eight is the sweet spot for readability). Each slice carries a label: a small action, a reward, a punishment, a prize, a wild card. A viewer tips, the wheel spins, the pointer lands on a slice, the streamer does what the slice says. The whole thing takes about six seconds — long enough to build suspense, short enough to keep the stream moving.

Mechanically, it's an OBS browser source. You don't install anything heavy: you log into your TipDeck dashboard, define your slices, copy a URL, paste it into OBS as a Browser Source, and the overlay shows up in your scene. From there, every tip on your linked platforms — Fansly, OnlyFans, Chaturbate, Camsoda, Stripchat — is read in real time and feeds the wheel. Nothing happens behind the scenes the viewers can't see. Transparency is the whole point: if the spin isn't visible, the tip isn't rewarded.

What makes it different from a Twitch-style wheel

Twitch and YouTube creators have used wheel overlays for years, usually driven by channel points or bits. Those wheels are useful but they have a structural problem: the currency is fake. Channel points cost nothing to earn and viewers feel no friction when they spin. The wheel becomes background noise.

A TipDeck Wheel runs on real money. A viewer who tips $5 to spin the wheel has decided, in that moment, that they want a specific outcome more than they want $5. That changes the energy of the spin — for the tipper, for the streamer, for everyone watching. The wheel is no longer ambient decoration; it's the engine of the stream.

Who runs a Wheel

Creators on adult platforms use it for tip-menu replacement (the wheel becomes the menu, randomised). Solo streamers use it during slow chat moments to inject momentum. Couples and group streams use it as a forcing function — if the wheel lands on it, you can't back out. New streamers use it as a conversation starter ("first $5 tip picks the next slice"). Veteran streamers use it as a closing-window tactic in the final 20 minutes when energy needs a third wind.

The common thread isn't the audience or the platform. It's that you have a moment of live attention and you want to convert it into a tip without asking for one directly. The wheel does the asking for you.

02How the Wheel works — the rules

Six things happen between a viewer's tip and the streamer doing what the wheel says. Six steps, every time, no exceptions. Knowing them turns the Wheel from "a thing that sits in OBS" into a tool you can steer.

1

A viewer sends a tip in chat

Any tip, on any platform you've linked to TipDeck, lands in the dashboard within roughly a second. The viewer's name, the amount, and the platform are all captured. No manual entry, no copy-paste, no "I missed it" excuses.

2

The tip amount must hit one of your trigger tiers — exactly

This is the rule everyone gets wrong the first time. The Wheel doesn't react to "any tip that crosses a threshold". It reacts to exact-match tier amounts you defined in the dashboard (with a $0.01 tolerance for token conversions). Four tiers, listed here in priority order if a tip somehow matches more than one:

Reset — default $25. Highest priority. Equalises every slice weight back to the average. Wipes whatever bias the boosts have built up.
Boost ×3 — default $20. Pushes under-weighted slices toward the average: w + (avg − w) × 0.6. Strong rebalancing.
Boost ×2 — default $10. Same formula, gentler factor (× 0.3). Small chance bump for rare slices.
Spin — default $5. Plain spin on the current weights. The bread-and-butter tier.

A $7 tip? Nothing fires. A $4.99 tip? Nothing fires. A $10.00 tip? Boost ×2 triggers, weights shift, the wheel spins on the new weights. Tiers are exact-match by design — anything else would let viewers exploit the rounding.

HOT TIP The dashboard only shows the Boost / Reset tiers when your slice weights are uneven. A wheel with all-equal weights has nothing to boost, so the UI hides those tiers until you add variance.

3

The wheel spins, on screen, for the whole room

The overlay animates a real spin — a long acceleration, a slow decel, a satisfying click as the pointer crosses each slice. The tipper's name appears next to the wheel: "@jakek_88 spins". Other viewers see exactly who paid, what they paid, and what they're betting on. That visibility is half the game.

4

The pointer lands on a slice

The result is determined the instant the tip is registered — the animation is just the show. Slices have weights from 1 to 10, so rare rewards stay rare: a slice with weight 1 has half the chance of a slice with weight 2. Configure weights to balance "fun and frequent" against "rare and crazy".

If a Boost tip preceded this spin, the weights have already been modified — and the modifications stay. Weight changes are persisted to your preset, spin after spin, until someone tips the Reset amount. That's how the Wheel gets gradually more generous over a session, then snaps back when a $25 reset lands.

5

The result is logged and announced

The slice the wheel landed on stays visible for a few seconds. The result is added to a public history feed at the side of the overlay so late-joining viewers can see what's happened tonight. The dashboard also keeps a permanent log — every spin, every result, every tipper, queryable later.

6

The streamer follows through

This is the part no software can do for you. The wheel landed on the slice you defined, in front of the viewers who paid for the spin. Following through is the contract. If you set "Dance" as a slice, you dance. The wheel only works long-term if the room trusts that the result is real.

RULE OF THUMB Never put a slice on the wheel that you wouldn't do for the trigger amount. If a $5 spin can land on "30-second dance", make sure 30-second dance is fine with you. Edit the wheel between streams, not during.

03See the Wheel running on a real stream

Ninety seconds of the Wheel in action: tip arrives, overlay spins, slice lands, streamer reacts. The fastest way to understand the mechanic is to watch one full cycle from outside the dashboard.

REC · 00:00 1080p · 30fps @tipdeck EP·01

Coming soon

Wheel demo · the 90-second walkthrough

Runtime ~1:30 · Release June 2026

Once the video drops, the player above swaps to the embedded clip — same frame, same dimensions, no layout shift.

04Why a tip-powered wheel changes the room

We're not going to throw a fake percentage at you. What we will tell you is the precise mechanism: why the Wheel shifts viewer behaviour. Five reasons, all backed by behavioural science older than streaming itself.

Variable rewards drive repeat behaviour

The classic slot-machine result: random rewards generate more engagement than predictable ones. A flat tip menu ("$5 = compliment") is predictable. A wheel that might land on a compliment, a tease, a wild card, or a boost is unpredictable — and humans are wired to keep playing unpredictable games. This isn't manipulative; it's structural. The wheel makes the same dollar feel like a different transaction.

Public spins create social proof

When a viewer sees another viewer's tip trigger a visible spin, the door cracks open. Lurkers who would never tip first will tip second. The Wheel makes tipping contagious in a way no static donation goal ever does — because every spin is a small public event, not a private transaction.

Anticipation is its own reward

The six seconds between "tip lands" and "pointer stops" are where the value compounds. The tipper feels suspense, the room feels suspense, the streamer reacts in real time. None of that exists with a flat tip menu. The Wheel is one of the few interactive mechanics that turns the process of tipping into entertainment.

Rare slices generate FOMO

A weight-1 slice in a wheel of weight-25 slices lands maybe 1 in 25 spins. Viewers chase the rare slice — the BOOST×2, the MYSTERY, the wild card. The chase generates spins that would never happen with a deterministic menu. Calibrate weights and you get to choose how often that chase resolves.

Big tippers don't just spin — they bend the odds

A $10 tip doesn't trigger a second spin; it triggers a Boost ×2, shifting the weights of the under-represented slices upward. A $20 tip is a Boost ×3 — a stronger shift. A $25 tip is a full Reset. Big tippers aren't paying for repetition, they're paying for influence over the game itself. The whole room sees the wheel react — visibly — and so do they. That's a different psychological transaction, and a much rarer one in tip culture.

It fills dead air, without effort from you

Streams die in the dead spots. Slow chat, low energy, you running out of things to say. A wheel of fortune in the corner of the scene is something to look at, even when nothing is spinning — and a single new tip restarts the engine. The Wheel is also a streamer's safety net.

05Configure your wheel in 3 minutes

One pass through the dashboard, one paste into OBS, and the wheel is live. Below is exactly what you'll touch and what each setting does — bookmark the section if you want a single reference for "how do I tweak X".

Slice library: what goes on your wheel

Each slice is a label (max 18 characters displayed), a weight from 1 to 10, and — in the Default skin — a custom color. Minimum 2 slices, no hard cap on the upper end. Eight is the design sweet spot: readable on a 1080p scene, easy to memorise, balanced rotation. Beyond twelve and labels start to overlap; below six and the wheel feels under-utilised.

A solid starter wheel for an adult-platform stream:

Dance 30sw:3 Selfiew:3 Teasew:2 Story timew:2 DJ pickw:3 Push-upsw:2 Complimentw:2 Wild cardw:1

Total weight 18. The Wild card lands roughly 1 in 18 spins (~5.5%) — rare enough to feel like a moment, frequent enough to keep viewers hopeful. Tip a Boost tier and that probability shifts upward; tip a Reset and it snaps back.

Trigger tiers: how the wheel reacts to tip amounts

Up to four tier amounts per preset. Each has a default value, all are editable, and a tip only fires a tier if its amount matches exactly (within $0.01 to handle token-to-USD conversions). Anything that isn't an exact match does nothing — there's no "accumulate to threshold" logic.

Spin · $5 defaulttier 1 Boost ×2 · $10 defaulttier 2 Boost ×3 · $20 defaulttier 3 Reset · $25 defaulttier 4

The two Boost tiers don't multiply spins — they modify the slice weights, nudging any slice below the average weight upward. Formula: w + (avg − w) × 0.3 for Boost ×2, × 0.6 for Boost ×3. The Reset tier snaps every weight back to the average. Weight changes accumulate across spins until a Reset — your wheel literally gets more generous toward rare slices as the night goes on, then resets when a $25 tip lands.

Priority order if a tip happens to match multiple tiers: Reset > Boost ×3 > Boost ×2 > Spin. The Boost and Reset tiers are only visible in the dashboard when your weights are uneven — a uniform wheel has nothing to boost.

Tier calibration by platform:

Chaturbate and Stripchat (token economies, lots of small tips): defaults work well — $5 / $10 / $20 / $25 reads naturally to viewers used to tip menus.
Fansly and OnlyFans (subscription, higher averages): consider $10 / $20 / $40 / $50 to match the larger tip culture, keeping the 1× / 2× / 4× / 5× ratio.
Camsoda: defaults work; bump tiers up ~50% if your audience tips above the platform median.

Skins: five visual themes, one click each

The Wheel ships with five SVG-rendered themes. They change colors, fonts and decorative elements — the underlying mechanics stay identical. Switch from the dashboard; the live overlay updates instantly via a wheel_update event, no OBS source reload needed.

Default 🎡 — custom colors per slice, Inter font. The most flexible; matches any brand.
Casino 🎰 — gold rim, alternating brown / black slices, Cinzel font. Custom slice colors ignored — the skin's palette takes over.
Retro TV 📺 — fixed rainbow palette, ring of bulbs, Bebas Neue font. Game-show energy.
Roulette 🎱 — red / black / green palette (green on the first segment), white ball animation, Georgia font.
Médiéval ⚔️ — wood texture with iron rivets, transparent slices (the wood shows through), Pirata One font.

In Casino, Retro, Roulette and Médiéval, the per-slice color setting is overridden — the skin's palette wins so the theme stays coherent.

Presets: multiple wheels per account, one active at a time

A preset bundles its own slices, weights, skin, tier amounts, and winner-display duration. Save as many as you want — only one is "active" at any given moment. Switching the active preset from the dashboard fires wheel_update and the live overlay rebuilds in milliseconds.

The typical workflow: a Warmup wheel (tame slices, low tier amounts) at the start of stream, switch to a Late-night wheel mid-session, finish with a Whale-bait wheel in the last twenty minutes. Three presets, three different game phases, zero downtime.

Overlay behaviour: hidden by default, animated on spin

The overlay starts in display: none. It only appears when a spin fires — by design, so the wheel stays an event rather than wallpaper. Per-spin animation sequence:

2 s static display — wheel fades in with current weights, viewers see the slices.
4.2 s spin — long acceleration, slow decel, satisfying ticks crossing each slice.
~0.5 s shake + sparkles on the landed slice.
Wheel fades out, winner badge takes its place.
Winner badge visible for winner_display_s (configurable 2–60 s, default 8 s).
Hidden again — back to display: none until the next spin.

OBS integration

One Browser Source, one URL, one set of dimensions:

In OBS, right-click your scene → Add → Browser.
Paste the overlay URL from your TipDeck dashboard.
Set width 1920, height 1080, FPS 30.
Check "Refresh browser when scene becomes active" if you switch scenes often.
Position the wheel wherever it fits — corner, side panel, full-bleed for big-moment scenes.

The overlay is fully transparent between spins, so the browser source doesn't compete with your camera or other scene elements when nothing is happening.

Screenshots — configuration view

TipDeck Wheel — dashboard menu and preset overview

Dashboard & presetsPreset switcher, active state, and controls panel — manage multiple wheel configurations from one screen.

TipDeck Wheel — slice editor and tier configuration

Slice editor & tiersLabel, weight 1–10, drag-to-reorder, color, and per-tier spin/boost amounts with live preview.

06FAQ — Wheel, answered straight

The questions creators actually ask in our Discord, with straight answers.

Does the Wheel work on Chaturbate, Fansly, OnlyFans, Camsoda and Stripchat?+

Yes — all five. TipDeck reads tips from your linked chats via a Chrome extension, normalises the amount to USD (token tips use your configured token-to-USD rate), and feeds it to the wheel. From the Wheel's perspective, a $5 tip on Chaturbate and a $5 tip on Fansly are the same event.

If you multistream, the Wheel aggregates tips from every platform you're live on into a single overlay. An exact-match $5 tip triggers a spin regardless of which platform fired it.

Can I weight slices so rare rewards stay rare?+

Yes. Every slice has its own weight from 1 to 10. A slice with weight 10 has 10× the chance of landing compared to a slice with weight 1. The math is fully transparent — the dashboard shows you the resulting percentage for every slice as you tune.

The only thing weights cannot do is guarantee a specific outcome. Even at weight 1 in a wheel of 100, that slice will eventually land. If you want a slice to never land, remove it from the wheel.

What do the Boost and Reset tiers actually do?+

They modify the weights of your slices — they don't multiply spins.

Boost ×2 (default $10) and Boost ×3 (default $20) nudge any slice with a weight below the wheel's average toward the average. Formula: w + (avg − w) × 0.3 for ×2, × 0.6 for ×3. The under-represented slices get a meaningful chance bump; the heavy slices don't change.

Reset (default $25) snaps every slice back to the wheel's average weight. Wipes whatever bias the boosts have accumulated.

Weight modifications persist across spins until a Reset fires — boosts compound over a session, so your wheel becomes progressively more generous on rare slices until someone tips the Reset amount and the math snaps back.

What happens if a viewer tips an amount that doesn't match any tier?+

Nothing fires. The Wheel uses exact-match tier comparison (with a $0.01 tolerance to handle token-to-USD conversions). A $7 tip on a wheel configured with $5 / $10 / $20 / $25 tiers triggers no spin, no boost, no reset — it just shows up in your chat like a regular tip.

This is by design. Approximate matching or "closest tier" logic would be exploitable (every $5.01 tip would suddenly be a Spin). Exact-match keeps the contract simple: viewers know what each tier costs, no surprises.

How long does it take to set up the Wheel for the first time?+

About 3 minutes if you already know your slices. About 10 minutes if you're brainstorming them on the spot. The pre-built starter wheels (Tame · Spicy · Wild) shortcut the brainstorm to 30 seconds — pick the template closest to your style and edit the labels.

Will the Wheel actually increase my tips?+

Interactive overlays consistently outperform static streams in our user base. The Wheel works best when viewers can see other people spinning — visibility is the whole point. We don't promise a specific percentage; we hear from creators that the Wheel changes the energy of the room more than it changes the tip rate of any single viewer. Energy is what builds repeat regulars.

The streams where it doesn't work tend to share one thing: the slices aren't followed through on. The Wheel is a contract, and a broken contract kills the mechanic. If you keep the contract, the contract keeps you.

Can I run multiple wheel presets in the same stream?+

Yes. You can save unlimited wheel presets per account (Tame Wheel for warmup, Wild Wheel for late-night, Whale-Bait Wheel for boost events) and switch between them mid-stream from the dashboard. The overlay updates instantly — no OBS source reload needed.

Is the Wheel free?+

TipDeck has a 15-day free trial with full access to every game, including the Wheel — no credit card required. After the trial it's a flat monthly subscription with no per-tip cut, no usage caps, no upsells.

The tipping wheel that spins on every viewer tip.

TL;DR — the short version

01What is the TipDeck Wheel?

What makes it different from a Twitch-style wheel

Who runs a Wheel

02How the Wheel works — the rules

A viewer sends a tip in chat

The tip amount must hit one of your trigger tiers — exactly

The wheel spins, on screen, for the whole room

The pointer lands on a slice

The result is logged and announced

The streamer follows through

03See the Wheel running on a real stream

04Why a tip-powered wheel changes the room

Variable rewards drive repeat behaviour

Public spins create social proof

Anticipation is its own reward

Rare slices generate FOMO

Big tippers don't just spin — they bend the odds

It fills dead air, without effort from you

05Configure your wheel in 3 minutes

Slice library: what goes on your wheel

Trigger tiers: how the wheel reacts to tip amounts

Skins: five visual themes, one click each

Presets: multiple wheels per account, one active at a time

Overlay behaviour: hidden by default, animated on spin

OBS integration

Screenshots — configuration view

06FAQ — Wheel, answered straight

Turn your next stream into a game your viewers want to play.

TL;DR — the short version

01What is the TipDeck Wheel?

What makes it different from a Twitch-style wheel

Who runs a Wheel

02How the Wheel works — the rules

A viewer sends a tip in chat

The tip amount must hit one of your trigger tiers — exactly

The wheel spins, on screen, for the whole room

The pointer lands on a slice

The result is logged and announced

The streamer follows through

03See the Wheel running on a real stream

04Why a tip-powered wheel changes the room

Variable rewards drive repeat behaviour

Public spins create social proof

Anticipation is its own reward

Rare slices generate FOMO

Big tippers don't just spin — they bend the odds

It fills dead air, without effort from you

05Configure your wheel in 3 minutes

Slice library: what goes on your wheel

Trigger tiers: how the wheel reacts to tip amounts

Skins: five visual themes, one click each

Presets: multiple wheels per account, one active at a time

Overlay behaviour: hidden by default, animated on spin

OBS integration

Screenshots — configuration view

06FAQ — Wheel, answered straight

Turn your next stream into a game your viewers want to play.

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