Wheel of Fortune SPIN ID and Bonus Puzzle Giveaway, Explained: How to Get a Number, Enter Nightly, and Check If You Won

Quick answer: A SPIN ID is a free number the show draws on air; the bonus puzzle is a separate entry you have to type in yourself. The entry page opens at 3 p.m. PT each weekday and closes at 4 p.m. ET the next day. Three giveaways are live as of Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, and they are listed further down.

Two different things get called "the Wheel giveaway," and mixing them up is why people think they entered when they did not. One is a number that gets drawn during the broadcast. The other is a puzzle answer you have to go type in yourself.

What is a SPIN ID?

It is a personal number assigned when you sign up for the Wheel Watchers Club, the show's free viewer club. Registration takes a minute and the number arrives by email, sometimes right away and sometimes closer to a day later.

You do not do anything with it night to night. It sits in your account, and the show draws numbers on air.

When a SPIN ID is revealed during an episode and it matches yours, you win whatever prize that promotion is attached to. To confirm, sign in at wheeloffortune.com/win and use the Check SPIN ID option rather than trusting a fan site.

How is the bonus puzzle giveaway different?

That one needs effort. The show puts a Bonus Round puzzle on screen at the end of the episode, and the solved answer is the entry code for a sweepstakes.

You go to the official Bonus Puzzle page, sign in with your club account, type the answer into the empty boxes, and submit. No answer, no entry — your SPIN ID alone does nothing here.

Each night is its own sweepstakes with its own drawing. Five nights of entries means five separate pools, not five tickets in one, which is the single most useful thing to understand about the whole system.

How long do you actually have to enter?

The official play page states both ends of the window, and most write-ups only quote the second one. It opens at 3 p.m. PT each weekday — 6 p.m. ET — and it closes at 4 p.m. ET the next day.

Two things follow from that. The window is about 22 hours end to end, not the 20 you get by counting from your own broadcast. And it opens before most of the country has seen the episode — which is why the answer circulates online so early, and why a West Coast viewer can enter at 3 p.m. their time on a puzzle that will not reach their station for another four hours.

The individual sweepstakes rules run their own entry periods on top of that, each with a final cutoff for the whole promotion. Those dates are in the next section.

Who can enter, and how many times?

Residents of the 50 states, Washington D.C. and Canada outside Quebec, at the age of majority where they live. One entry per person and per email address for each nightly sweepstakes.

A second account does not double your odds; it breaks the rules the prize is awarded under. Read the official rules linked from the giveaway page before you enter, since eligibility language shifts between promotions.

What is being given away right now?

It rotates, and that is the part fan pages get wrong most often. The Myrtle Beach trip package that ran from the end of August closed to entries on Sept. 12 and is finished. As of Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, two promotions are still open (Words With Friends and Canyon Spirit) and a third, Everybody Wins, closed on Sept. 26:

Read the end dates carefully. They are stated in Pacific time and just before 3 a.m., which means the Sept. 26 cutoff is effectively the end of Friday night, not the end of Saturday. Check the giveaway page itself on the day you enter instead of assuming last month's prize is still live.

Does the giveaway still run during reruns?

Yes, and this catches out viewers who assume a repeat is dead air. Sony ran an entire trip giveaway across a week of encores this summer; the five bonus puzzles from the week of Aug. 31 were all repeats and all entry codes.

The exception is the on-air SPIN ID draw, which behaves the same either way. A drawn number is a drawn number.

One catch worth knowing

Puzzle answers are online long before the West Coast airing. Sites post the solution within minutes of the East Coast broadcast, so anyone at 7 p.m. Pacific can enter without watching.

That is allowed, and it also means the answer will find you whether you want it or not. If you like solving it cold, stay off search until you have watched — our own nightly result posts put the puzzle behind a heading for exactly that reason.

FAQ

How do I get a SPIN ID?
Register free for the Wheel Watchers Club at wheeloffortune.com. The number is emailed to you, generally within 24 hours.

What time does the bonus puzzle entry close?
The official page says before 4 p.m. ET the day after the episode airs.

How do I know if my SPIN ID won?
Sign in at wheeloffortune.com/win and use Check SPIN ID. Winning numbers are announced during the broadcast.

What time does the bonus puzzle entry open?
3 p.m. PT on weekdays, which is 6 p.m. ET — earlier than most stations air the episode.

Can I enter more than one giveaway at a time?
Yes. In the week of Sept. 21 the Everybody Wins and Words With Friends sweepstakes are both open, and each night counts as its own entry in each.

Sources

Wheeloffortune.com — Bonus Round Puzzle entry · Wheeloffortune.com — all giveaways, winners and Check SPIN ID (entry windows and end dates read Sept. 22, 2026) · Contest Scoop — giveaway dates and eligibility · Sweepstakes Advantage — entry periods

Every night's puzzle goes up in the Wheel of Fortune section, and this week's schedule for both shows is in the Wheel week-ahead page. Local air times by city sit in the how-to-watch guide.

By the Game Show On Air desk · Updated Oct. 21, 6:35 a.m. ET