How to play Flagle

The goal

Name the country behind the hidden flag in six guesses or fewer. Everyone gets the same flag on the same day, so you can compare results with friends. A new flag appears every day at midnight in your local time zone.

Step by step

1. 1

   Type a country. Start typing any country under the hidden flag and pick it from the list. The first guess is a free shot, so choose a flag with big areas of common colours.

2. 2

   Look at the flag. Every part of the hidden flag that has the same colour in the same place as your flag is now uncovered. The rest stays hidden behind a grey pattern.

3. 3

   Read the hints. Your guess is listed with its distance to the hidden country, an arrow pointing towards it, and how much of the flag it uncovered.

4. 4

   Narrow it down. Combine what you see with where the arrow points. A green-white-orange tricolour north-west of you is a very short list.

5. 5

   Name the country. Find it within six guesses to win. If you run out, the answer is shown with a link to learn more about that flag.

How colours are matched

Flagle compares your flag and the hidden flag pixel by pixel. Where both flags have the same colour at the same spot, that spot of the hidden flag is uncovered. Position matters: the red stripe at the top of Austria's flag uncovers the top of Indonesia's flag, which is red, but not the top of Poland's, which is white.

Shades of one colour count as the same colour. The dark green of Pakistan and the bright green of Brazil both match green, and navy and royal blue both match blue. Light blue (as on the flags of Argentina or Somalia) is treated as its own colour, and so are orange, yellow, purple and brown.

You can see the colours of every flag, and which guesses uncover the most of it, on the flags pages.

An example round

Say the hidden flag is the flag of Ireland. Here is how a round could go, with the real numbers the game shows:

#	Guess	Distance	Revealed	What it tells you
1	Nigeria	5,061 km ↗	67%	Green on the left and white in the middle. The arrow points north, towards Europe.
2	Italy	1,837 km ↖	67%	Same two stripes, but the right one is not red either. The country is north-west of Italy.
3	Ireland	Correct!	100%	A green, white and orange tricolour north-west of Italy: Ireland, in three guesses.

Distances are measured between the centres of the two countries. The arrow shows the direction from your guess to the hidden country, like a compass.

Daily, Archive and Practice

• Daily is the same flag for everyone. It counts towards your statistics: games played, win rate, current and best streak, and how many guesses you usually need.
• Archive lets you play any past daily flag, all the way back to Flagle #1 in August 2022. Archive games are saved, but they do not change your streak.
• Practice gives you a random flag whenever you want. Start a new one at any time, or give up to see the answer.

Your progress is saved in your browser, so you can close the page and come back later.

Settings

• Hard mode hides the small flags in the country list, so you have to know the names.
• Distances in miles switches the hints from kilometres to miles.
• Dark theme and animations can be turned on or off.
• Language: Flagle is available in 18 languages, including the country names.

Which names are accepted?

Flagle knows 197 countries, in the language you play in and in English. Common short forms work too: USA, UK, UAE, Holland, Czech Republic, Ivory Coast, DRC and more. Capital letters, accents and hyphens are ignored. Browse all of them on the flags page.