Frequently asked questions

Flagle is a free daily flag guessing game. A country's flag is hidden and you have six guesses to name the country. Each guess uncovers the parts of the hidden flag that match your flag's colours, and shows how far away and in which direction the hidden country is.

A new flag is chosen every day at midnight in your local time zone. After you finish, a countdown shows how long is left until the next one.

Your flag is laid over the hidden flag. Wherever both flags have the same colour at the same spot, that part of the hidden flag is uncovered. The more of your flag matches, the more you see. The how to play page has examples.

It should, as long as the green is in the same place on both flags. Flagle treats all shades of a colour as one colour, so dark green and bright green match. Light blue is the one exception: it is a separate colour from dark blue.

The distance is measured between the geographic centres of the two countries, in kilometres or, if you switch it on in the settings, in miles. The arrow shows the direction from your guess to the hidden country.

It shows how much of the hidden flag that guess uncovered on its own. The bar above the guesses shows how much of the flag has been revealed by all your guesses together.

A few flags are almost identical, for example Romania and Chad, Indonesia and Monaco, or Ireland and Ivory Coast. If one of them uncovers the whole flag but is not the answer, try the other one, and use the distance and the arrow. Every flag page lists its closest look-alikes.

Flagle uses 197 countries: the UN member states plus Kosovo, Palestine, Taiwan and Vatican City. Browse all of them on the flags page.

Yes. The Archive lets you play every past daily flag since Flagle #1 in August 2022, and Practice gives you unlimited random flags. Neither changes your daily streak.

Yes, your guesses and statistics are stored in your browser. If you clear your browser data or switch devices, your statistics start again.

In hard mode the country list shows names only, without the small flags, so you cannot pick a country by looking at its flag.

Flagle is available in 18 languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Hungarian, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Country names are translated too, and the English name always works.

Yes, Flagle is completely free to play, with no account needed. The site is supported by ads.

When the round is over, press Share. A grid of squares showing how close each guess was is copied, so you can paste it in a chat without spoiling the answer.

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