Find the Color
3 flags · 6 wrong colors
Take the #1 spot
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3 flags · 6 wrong colors
Take the #1 spot
Find the Color is a free daily flag color game on Quizebra in which a flag appears with some of its colors replaced and you drag a hue slider for each one until the flag looks right again. The country’s name is shown, so you are never guessing which flag it is; you are matching colors. You play three flags a day: one color to fix on the first, two on the second and three on the third. Each color is scored on how close your hue lands to the true one, and your day’s score is the average of all six. Everyone gets the same three flags each day.
The colors you have to find are replaced by decoys, and there is one slider per color, stacked under the flag. Drag one and its part of the flag recolors live, so you are judging the whole flag as you go rather than comparing color squares, and you can see straight away which color each slider moves. Stop where it looks right and lock it in, and your version is shown next to the real flag with your match percentage.
The sliders move hue only. Saturation and lightness are already correct, so the task is placing each shade on the color wheel and nothing else. There is no timer and no multiple choice.
Each color scores how far your hue sits from the true one, measured the short way round the color wheel. Landing exactly on it is 100%. Ninety degrees out is 50%. A full 180 degrees out, the opposite color, is 0%, and nothing scores below that because no two hues are further apart than half the wheel.
A hundred points are spread across those 180 degrees, so every degree off costs a bit over half a point and anything within 18 degrees still scores 90 or more. Your day’s score is the average of all six colors, not of the three flags, so the third flag, with three colors, counts three times as much as the first. Tied scores share a rank on the daily leaderboard.
Not at a random color, and never at the right one. Every slider opens on one of two fixed shades, neither of which is ever the true hue of its color, and on the second and third flags several sliders can open on the same shade. The start is not a hint, though: the real color might be a short drag away or right across the wheel.
196 flags can come up, the same 196 as Name the Flag: the 193 UN member states plus Kosovo, Palestine, Taiwan and Vatican City. Nepal is left out because the two games share one flag list, and it was dropped from that list for Name the Flag’s zoom.
Black and white are never asked for, and on the second and third flags neither is any color covering less than 5% of the flag. That decides where a flag can come up: the 46 flags with fewer than two such colors come up first, with one color to find, the 94 with exactly two come up second, and the 56 with three or more come up third, with their three largest colors.
Get the family right first, then fine-tune. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet each cover roughly a sixth of the wheel, so landing anywhere in the right family already scores above 80, and the last few degrees are worth about half a point each.
Red is not at either end of the slider. Both ends sit on the same violet, and pure red is about a fifth of the way in from the left. That matters more than it sounds: 151 of the 402 colors that can come up are a red within thirty degrees of pure. Parking at an end is no shortcut either, since the best it can score on any color is 76% and the average is 48%.
Only the hue moves. If a color looks too pale or too dark, that is not something you can change and not something you are scored on, so judge the hue alone.
A new set of three flags arrives at midnight London time, with a fresh leaderboard, and everyone in the world gets the same three. Each of the three groups is dealt in its own fixed shuffled order, one flag a day, and starts over when it runs out, so no flag comes up twice within 46, 94 or 56 days. Once the daily round is done you can keep playing extra sets of three, which are unlimited and never touch the daily leaderboard. Free, no account, no ads.
Rather name the flag than fix it? Name the Flag zooms out of a flag against the clock. Or try Guess the Country for outlines instead of shades.