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 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.