Flag Finder guide

Goal

Identify the daily country from its flag. You have 6 guesses — fewer means a higher score.

How to play

• Look at the flag shown at the top of the screen.
• Type a country name (or pick from multiple choice) and submit.
• After each wrong guess you'll see distance + a directional arrow toward the target.

Hints

• After 3 wrong guesses — continent is revealed.
• After 4 wrong guesses — capital city is revealed.

Reading a flag

Flags cluster by region and by history, so the design narrows the field long before you recall a name. A Nordic cross places it in northern Europe; the pan-African red, gold and green and the pan-Arab red, white, black and green each point to a bloc; a Union Flag in the canton marks a former British territory. A crescent, a southern-cross constellation or a distinctive central emblem usually identifies the country outright.

Spending your guesses

• The continent is revealed after three wrong guesses and the capital after four, so a guess that is confidently wrong still buys information.
• Because distance and direction come back on every wrong guess, an early guess on a different continent is worth more than another guess in the region you already suspect.
• Fewer guesses scores higher, so stop refining once the hints have narrowed it to a country you actually recognise.

Reset

One flag per day for every player, resetting at midnight Melbourne time.