Fortunes written for you, not remembered at you
Choose a tone, choose what kind of sentence you want, choose how many. You get short fortunes and a set of lucky numbers.
Nothing here carries a name. No philosopher, no ancient tradition, no “as the saying goes”. A fortune signed with a source is a fake record that outlives the tool that printed it, so this one does not print them.
The harder promise is the second one: that a line handed to you is written rather than remembered. Every field of every reply is matched here in your browser against a corpus of anonymous proverbs and fixed idioms, and what it finds is shown to you. It does not catch everything, and it says exactly how much it misses.
The example ships with a saved model run — fortunes, both checks, the craft report — readable without signing in and without spending a credit. The checker is free forever.
Write me some fortunes
Three, five or seven. None of them divides the thirteen turns or the eleven angles evenly, which is what stops “work through the list” from being the cheapest way to fill a batch.
The batch
Checked against sayings already in circulation
The register of the mass-produced slip
What this batch actually did
What the check proves, and what it does not
The originality check is a corpus-membership test, not an originality test. It compares each line against a shipped corpus of — anonymous traditional English proverbs and fixed idioms. When it finds nothing, that means no known match was found. It does not mean the line is original, and this app will never tell you it does.
Here is the number that matters, measured rather than asserted. Against lines the corpus holds, the check scores 100% word-for-word and 92.8% through light rewording. Against a held-out set of 160 traditional sayings the corpus does not hold, it scores 4.4%.
That second figure is the honest one, and the held-out set was deliberately not folded back into the corpus afterwards — doing so would have raised the headline number and destroyed its meaning. Expanding the corpus is the only thing that moves it; better matching does not.
The corpus holds anonymous traditional material only: proverbs and fixed idioms with no identifiable author, common property of English for generations. It deliberately holds no named-author quotations, no commercial fortune-slip text and no scripture. The register check above is therefore not a corpus at all — it holds the grammatical shapes the mass-produced slip is built on, and has never held a specimen.
Check lines you wrote yourself
Free, no account, nothing sent anywhere. This runs the same two checks the app runs on its own output, in this browser, on whatever you paste. One line per fortune.