Friendship Calculator
A name game in the same family as FLAMES, played the same way and meaning about as much. Enter two names and it returns a light verdict on the friendship. There is no chart, no birth date and no calculation from the sky behind it.
What this calculator works out
- Letters remaining after cancelling
- The same mechanic FLAMES uses.
- A light verdict on the friendship
- From a fixed set of outcomes.
How it works
Letters shared by both names cancel out in pairs. Whatever count remains is used to step around a fixed set of verdicts, eliminating one at a time until a single result survives.
Step by step
- Both names are lowercased and spaces removed.
- Letters common to both cancel out in pairs.
- The remaining letters are counted.
- That count steps around a fixed set of verdicts, eliminating one at a time until a single result survives.
A worked example
Input: Two names sharing three letters
- Three shared letters cancel from each side
- The leftover count drives the elimination
Result: One verdict from the set. No birth data is involved at any point.
How to read your result
- It is a letter game
- Nothing here touches a birth chart or a numerology table, and no other reading on this site uses the result.
- There is a real astrological view of friendship
- A traditional reading would compare both people's Moon signs and their nakshatra lords. That is a genuinely different exercise from counting letters.
- Spelling decides the outcome
- Different spellings of the same name give different answers.
What changes the answer
- No date of birth, no time, no place is used.
- Included because people look for it; presented as what it is.
- The verdict set is arbitrary and varies between versions of the game.
- Treat it as entertainment.
Frequently asked questions
Is this based on astrology?
No. It is a letter game. Nothing on this page touches a birth chart or a numerology table, and no reading elsewhere on the site uses its result.
Is there an astrological way to look at friendship?
Yes — the relationship between two people’s Moon signs and their nakshatra lords is what a traditional reading would actually examine. The rashi and nakshatra calculators are the starting point for that.
Does spelling change the result?
Yes, since the method works on letters. Different spellings of the same name give different answers, which is a fair indication of how much weight to give it.
Related astrology concepts
- Rashi calculator — the Moon sign a real reading would start from
- Nakshatra calculator — the finer lunar coordinate
- FLAMES — the same mechanic, different verdicts