Name the Flag
5 zoomed flags · 20 sec each
Take the #1 spot
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5 zoomed flags · 20 sec each
Take the #1 spot
Name the Flag is a free daily flag quiz on Quizebra, a guess-the-flag game: a flag appears zoomed in close, zooms out over twenty seconds, and you pick which country it belongs to from four options. You play five flags a day, your score is your total time, and lower is better. Everyone gets the same five flags each day.
A flag opens at nine times its normal size, so you start on a corner, a stripe or a fragment of an emblem, and it shrinks back to full size over twenty seconds. Each flag has its own hand-set starting point: often an emblem or a corner, sometimes the middle. Tap one of the four countries as soon as you know it. A correct pick ends the round; a wrong one turns red, the screen flashes, and the clock jumps forward ten seconds, which also pushes the zoom out so you see more of the flag than you had.
Your score is the total time across the five flags and lower is better. A round you never solve counts a flat twenty seconds, so the worst possible day is one hundred.
A wrong pick costs you ten of the twenty seconds rather than ten on top, so a round can never cost more than twenty. That means two wrong picks always end a round, and a wrong pick after the ten-second mark ends it on its own, exactly as if you had not answered. Times keep one decimal, and tied times share a rank on the daily leaderboard.
The three wrong options are fixed per flag, hand-picked on two tests: flags that look alike, countries from the same part of the world, or both. About seven in ten wrong options are on the answer’s own continent. Ireland comes with Côte d’Ivoire, Italy and France. The Philippines comes with Czechia, Cuba and Djibouti, which share its shape and colors and nothing else. Chad comes with Moldova, Mali and Niger, which are look-alikes and neighbors at once.
A close-up of a red, white and blue stripe fits several countries, and the four names are chosen to keep it that way.
196 flags can come up: the 193 UN member states plus Kosovo, Palestine, Taiwan and Vatican City, minus Nepal, the world’s only non-rectangular flag, whose shape would break the zoom frame this game is built on. It never appears, not even as a wrong option.
The five rounds run easiest to hardest, each drawn from its own difficulty tier of 39 or 40 flags. The tiers come from a per-flag difficulty score, split into five bands, with ties between equally-scored flags settled by hand, by how well known each flag is.
Read the four names first. Because the wrong three are look-alikes, the names tell you which family of flag you are looking at before the picture is readable, and you are often choosing between four versions of one pattern rather than recognizing a flag from nothing.
Then look for the one thing that separates that family. Ireland and Côte d’Ivoire are the same three stripes in opposite order, so check which side the orange is on. Indonesia and Singapore are both red over white, but Singapore has a crescent and stars in the red. The Netherlands and Luxembourg differ in the shade of blue, and Luxembourg’s flag is longer, which you only see near the end. Mind the ten-second penalty before guessing on a hunch.
It starts from the same idea, a country recognized from a flag you cannot properly see, built as a race rather than a limited-guess puzzle. Here the whole flag is on screen from the first second, just far too close, and what uncovers it is time rather than guesses. You pick from four names instead of typing freely, you play five flags a day rather than one, and you are scored on how many seconds those five took you.
A new set of five flags arrives at midnight London time, with a fresh leaderboard, and everyone in the world gets the same five. Each tier is dealt in a shuffled order over a 39-day cycle, and no flag is used twice within a cycle. Once the daily round is done you can keep playing extra sets of five, which are unlimited and never touch the daily leaderboard. Free, no account, no ads.
Same idea with country outlines? Guess the Country is the same race against the clock with a map instead of a flag. Or work on shades rather than shapes in Find the Color.