Fortune in Your Name

Enter your name — the cosmos will test its fate.
If the universe matches it faster than theory predicts,
it smiles upon you today.

What this game is

Fortune in Your Name is a small interactive demo of conditional probability. Pick a name, and the page generates random strings from the matching alphabet — Latin (26 letters) or Cyrillic (33 letters) — until one of them happens to spell your name letter for letter. The number of attempts you see is how patient the universe needs to be.

Want a reading instead of a game?

Try the Name Decoder: your name and birth date through three layers of arithmetic — letters, Pythagorean numbers, and today's biorhythms. Same transparency, more to read.

Want the math behind it?

Read The Probability of a Name for the worked numbers, or browse the rest of our articles on numerology and name meanings.