Flagle tips and strategies

Six guesses is not many. These habits help you uncover more of the flag with every guess and use the distance hints to close in on the answer.

The best first guesses

We tried every flag as a first guess against all 197 flags. These ten uncover the most of the hidden flag on average:

Tunisia30% on average

Switzerland30% on average

Turkey30% on average

Latvia30% on average

Austria30% on average

Vietnam30% on average

Morocco29% on average

China29% on average

Denmark29% on average

Kyrgyzstan29% on average

Open with a mostly red flag

Red is the most common colour on world flags, and white comes second. Flags that are almost entirely red with a little white, such as Tunisia, Switzerland and Turkey, uncover about 30% of the average flag on the first guess. See the full list of the best openers below.

Use the second guess to test the other colours

If red barely showed up, your second guess should bring colours you have not tried yet: green, blue, yellow or black. A flag like Brazil (green, yellow and blue) or South Africa (six colours) asks many questions at once.

Think about the layout, not just the colours

Uncovered colours appear in the same place as on your flag. A revealed vertical stripe on the left points to a vertical tricolour; a band across the top points to a horizontal one. A small revealed circle in the middle, like the one from Japan, means there is something round there too.

Notice what was not revealed

Empty areas are clues as well. If Italy uncovered the green and the white but not the right third, that stripe is not red. Combined with the location, that leaves very few flags, such as Ireland or Ivory Coast.

Follow the arrow and the distance

Every guess shows how far the hidden country is and in which direction. Two guesses from different parts of the world are often enough to place the answer on one continent. Use them together with the colours instead of guessing flags at random.

Learn the look-alikes

Some flags are nearly identical: Romania and Chad, Indonesia and Monaco, Ireland and Ivory Coast. If one of them uncovers the whole flag but is not the answer, the other one is. Every flag page lists its closest look-alikes.

Shades do not matter, light blue does

Dark and bright versions of a colour count as the same colour, so Pakistan uncovers the green of Nigeria. Light blue is a separate colour: the sky blue of Argentina does not match the navy of France.

Practise between daily games

Practice mode gives you unlimited random flags without touching your streak, and the Archive has every past daily flag since 2022. A few rounds a day is the fastest way to learn the flags of Africa, the Caribbean or the Pacific.

Put it into practice

Try the tips on today's flag, or warm up with a few practice rounds first.

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