Names · Curiosity · Connections

Just two names. Let FLAMES do the rest.

The game everyone played on the back page of a school notebook, rebuilt as a small, fast app. No feed, no waiting — an answer the moment you tap Play.

Same old game. Same old rules.

Nothing here is invented. FLAMES works exactly the way it always did — the app just does the crossing-out for you.

1

Type two names

Yours and theirs. Spaces, capitals and punctuation don't matter — only the letters do.

2

Shared letters cancel

Every letter the two names have in common is struck off both sides, one for one.

3

Count around the word

Whatever is left over counts around F-L-A-M-E-S, striking out a letter each pass until one survives.

Six ways it can land

One letter is left standing at the end. It is always one of these.

FFriends
LLove
AAffection
MMarriage
EEnemies
SSiblings

A screen and a half

There is no second tab. That is the point.

A fun way to see what could be.
Two fields and a button. That's the whole app.
Curiosity is a good place to start.

Your names never leave your phone.

FLAMES works out every result on your device. The names you type stay in the app's memory while you play and are gone the moment you close it. No analytics, no ads — the only thing we keep is the mobile number your subscription runs on.

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