Changelog

New modes, Daily changes, and fixes.

Lookalike flags, Elimination, a weekly spin, and Daily at /daily.

Today's Daily and past days

Daily

Today is /daily. A past day is /daily/YYYY-MM-DD, and the archive lists earlier days. Older /challenges/daily links still open the same puzzle.

Open Daily

Lookalike Flag Comparisons

Challenges

Side-by-side breakdowns for easily confused pairs like Chad vs. Romania, Monaco vs. Indonesia, and Ireland vs. Ivory Coast. Each page shows both flags whole, then a short practice. Ten pairs are up, and a flag’s own page links the pair when one exists.

Play Similarities

Native Share Sheet & Spoiler Shields

Social

You can hand a result to your phone’s share sheet. Replays share the same way. A Daily share image keeps later flags hidden so you do not spoil the day for a friend.

Multiplayer Elimination Mode

Multiplayer

Multiplayer rooms can run Elimination. A wrong answer costs a life, and the last player still in wins.

Open Lobby

Weekly Spin Streak Rewards

Daily

The streak calendar now includes a weekly spin bonus for maintaining your daily streak.

Instant Navigation & Skeletons

Performance

Moving between pages feels immediate, and a challenge shows a skeleton while the round loads.

Streamlined Reading Typography

Design

Help, the blog, and About use a plainer reading font. Fredoka stays on the game, the logo, and share cards.

Clear Quiz Pool Explanations

Solo

About explains the quiz pool: Daily and multiplayer leave out dependent territories such as Hong Kong, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Solo Hard is where you add them.

Read About

Fixes 7

  • Side challenges stay smooth mid-round. Blur’s guess count keeps a steady width, and the miss sound is ready before you miss.
  • Shuffling Connections keeps solved groups solved.
  • Blur records the number of guesses you actually used.
  • The progress bar counts flags you have answered, not the question number you are on.
  • Learn keeps reviews that were still waiting, even when a lot of them pile up at once.
  • A repeated save no longer knocks out Daily, friends, the globe, or XP.
  • Daily, the weekly spin, and a finished game grant XP once, even when two claims land together.

Public About & Contact Page

General

An About page says who runs flags.games, that an account is optional, and how to reach the team.

Visit About

Permanent Daily Challenge Links

Daily

Each past Daily day can be opened on its own link, so a shared day is the same five flags for everyone who opens it.

Daily archive

Data Export & Self-Service Account Deletion

Account

Signed-in players can download a copy of their data and delete the account from settings. Deletion removes the profile tied to that login.

Data Deletion Policy Page

Account

A public data-deletion page explains the same steps if you need them written out, including how to ask when you cannot sign in.

View instructions

Expanded Flavitar Hair Customization

Design

The avatar editor adds more hair styles.

Daily archive, streak rewards, Apple sign-in, and Solo Hard saves.

Daily UTC Leaderboard & Archive

Daily

Daily gets a leaderboard for a given UTC day, plus an archive you can browse after the day ends.

Open Daily

Unobtrusive Daily Hint Drawer

Daily

A hint drawer on Daily holds the extra clue off the flag until you open it.

Streak Calendar & Weekly Chests

Daily

The streak calendar shows which days you cleared. A weekly chest and a weekly spin sit with that streak.

Apple Sign-In Support

Account

Sign in with Apple, next to email codes and the other account options.

Granular Privacy & Cookie Settings

Account

Cookie choices live in settings. You can reopen them later.

Solo Hard Save Runs & Extended Territories

Solo

Solo Hard can save a run and pick it up later. Hard is also where extra territories can be turned on. Daily and rooms stay on the shared pool.

Play Solo

Typing Fuzzy Matching & Aliases

Solo

Typing accepts a close spelling, including a few alternate country names.

Audio Enhancements & Spoken Names

Design

Music can play during a run. Learn can speak the name of the flag you are meeting. UI clicks use a lighter sound so the first tap is not waiting on the full music engine.

PWA Install & Adaptive Dark Icon

Performance

You can install flags.games from settings. The home-screen icon has a dark version.

Reduce Motion & iOS Scroll Polish

Design

Reduce motion is a setting. On iPhone, controls ignore the extra tap that used to fire while you were scrolling.

Brand Identity Guide

Design

A brand page collects logos, colors, and type.

Brand guide

Update Availability Banners

Performance

Settings can tell you when a newer version of the site is ready.

Fixes 2

  • A near miss in typing no longer needs the exact official spelling when the name is only a letter or two off.
  • A friends list stops at a fixed cap, so a full list stays one you can open.

The globe, share cards, Learn packs, and mode guides.

Interactive World Activity Globe

Social

World Activity is a globe of recent finishes. A ping can play when someone new shows up, and you can turn that sound off. It was called Global Pulse before the rename.

Open Globe

Dynamic Share Cards & Confetti

Daily

Daily results can be shared as an image. The card celebrates a clear with confetti, shows your streak, and can show how other people did that day. The result screen can ask you to sign in so the score sticks to an account.

Country Accuracy Rankings

Social

A country leaderboard ranks average accuracy by place, once a place has enough finished games to count.

Leaderboard

Passwordless Email Verification

Account

You can sign in with an email code. A check runs before the code is sent so scripts cannot hammer the form.

Learn Study Packs & Periodic XP

Learn

Learn packs group flags into a sitting. Signed-in card progress can sync. Your profile shows XP for the current period, not only the lifetime total.

Open Learn

Solo Run Milestones

Solo

Solo shows milestones as a run climbs.

Play Solo

How-To Guide & Challenges Hub

General

A how-to guide sits with the game, and a Challenges page lists the side modes in one place.

View Challenges

Similarities Explanations & Mystery Hints

Challenges

Similarities can tell you why the two flags look alike. Mystery hints read more clearly when a flag has no symbol to point at.

Play Similarities

Blog & Legal Center

General

Terms, Privacy, a blog, and a contact form go up. The blog starts with how spaced repetition works in Learn.

Read Blog

Multiplayer Safety Filtering

Multiplayer

Usernames and room names pass a filter before they are shown to other people.

Mobile Bottom Navigation

Design

On a phone, the main modes sit in a bottom nav. The site can be installed as an app, with a maskable icon.

Fixes 2

  • Lobby entry backs off if the room is not ready, instead of hammering the door.
  • A dropped multiplayer connection gets a short grace period before the seat is gone.

Flag pages, Help, and Learn reviews.

Flag Detail Encyclopedias

General

Every flag gets its own page: when it was adopted, who designed it when that is known, what the parts mean, and which flags resemble it.

Browse Flags

Comprehensive Game Help Center

General

Help articles explain Daily, Blur, Puzzle, Spotlight, Similarities, Mystery, Connections, and Flag Builder.

Help center

Learn Reviews Dashboard & Preview

Learn

Learn’s dashboard shows what is due, and a preview lets you study a flag before the next round.

Study now

Connections Closeness Alerts

Challenges

Connections tells you when one flag is one group away, and it tells you if you submit the same four again.

Play Connections

Haptic Round Shakes & Challenge SFX

Design

A wrong answer shakes the round. Challenges play a short sound for a win and for a loss.

WebP Optimization & Shared Layout Motion

Performance

Flags are served as WebP, and opening a flag from Explorer can animate into the detail view.

Explorer

Experimental Mode & Map Retirement

General

Anthems leaves on 17 April. Jigsaw leaves on 20 April. The old map leaderboard, built on Leaflet, leaves on 15 April.

Connections, Puzzle & Flag Builder Launch

Challenges

Connections, Puzzle, and Flag Builder join the side challenges. Connections sorts sixteen flags into four hidden groups. Puzzle scrambles a flag into tiles. Flag Builder asks you to rebuild one from memory.

Play challenges

Player Profiles & Multiplayer Replays

Social

Profiles open, the friends list is renamed Social, and you can watch a shared multiplayer replay with the same questions and results.

Social hub

Puzzle Debuts on Home

Challenges

Speedrun leaves on 7 March, the day Puzzle arrives on the home page.

Play Puzzle

Platform Redesign & XP Progression

General

On 27 March the site moves to a new shell. Solo, Daily, Learn, rooms, and the side challenges stay. The avatar editor, replay viewer, and challenge result sharing come with that move, and a finished Solo run can claim XP.

Mystery, friends, and a new avatar studio.

Mystery Mode Debut

Challenges

Mystery asks you to name a flag from clues. It starts as a daily puzzle, then becomes a fresh set each time you open it, with the hint still on the result.

Mystery mode

Experimental Jigsaw Mode

Challenges

Jigsaw starts as a test on 14 February. It leaves in April.

Friends & Mini Profiles

Social

Friends arrive late in the month. An empty list explains itself, a tap opens a mini profile, and a full list shows ten friends.

Social hub

Flavitar Avatar Studio v2

Design

The avatar editor is redesigned, and round results show the avatars larger.

Early 3D Globe Leaderboard

Social

A globe view of the leaderboard starts taking shape, next to the existing map.

Globe

Similarities Match Indicator & Clue Polish

Challenges

Similarities can show how close two flags are when you hover the match mark. Mystery clues are rewritten so they sound less like a form letter, and the share card can include a Mystery result.

Similarities

Typing Review Screen

Solo

Typing’s end screen shows the answer you typed, labeled Your Answer.

Fixes 2

  • Spotlight no longer crops the flag out of the spotlight.
  • Blur, Similarities, and the small flag chips get a cleaner frame, and a finished round stops dimming the flag.

Solo, Daily, Learn, and multiplayer.

Official Launch of flags.games

General

flags.games starts on 13 January.

Solo Quiz Modes: Classic, Time Attack & Survival

Solo

Solo has three ways to play. Classic has no timer and no lives. Time Attack gives you 10, 15, 20, or 30 seconds per flag, with extra points for speed. Survival starts you with 3 hearts, and a miss costs one.

Play Solo

Four Curated Difficulty Tiers

Solo

Difficulty changes the set. Easy is 15 questions on major flags, with distractors from other continents. Medium is 25 and stays closer to the region. Hard uses the full country list and prefers neighbors. Expert prefers flags that look alike, names that sound alike, or pairs people already mix up.

Play Solo

Daily Flag Challenge

Daily

Daily is one puzzle for the UTC date, the same questions for everyone.

Play Daily

Blur Mode

Challenges

Blur starts grayscale and heavily blurred, with 6 guesses. Each miss clears the picture a little, and the result can be copied as a grid.

Play Blur

Similarities Mode

Challenges

Similarities shows a country name and two flags. You pick the right one across 10 pairs, from obvious differences up to near twins such as Chad and Romania.

Play Similarities

Inaugural Mini-Games: Spotlight, Anthems & Speedrun

Challenges

Spotlight, Anthems, and Speedrun are in the first set. Anthems is 10 rounds of listening, then 4 flags. Speedrun times how fast you clear a set. Spotlight reveals a flag through a small window.

Play Spotlight

Flag Explorer & Spaced Repetition Learn

Learn

Explorer lists the flags, grouped by region, and you can search. Learn uses spaced repetition for flags you miss.

Open Learn

Real-Time Multiplayer & Public Roadmap

Multiplayer

Multiplayer rooms, a public roadmap, and settings are there from the start.

Multiplayer

Emoji & Grid Share Cards

Social

A share card can include the guesses from the round.

Client Flag Caching & Audio Cues

Performance

From 28 January, flags cache in the browser, so the next round opens from a copy you already have. Speedrun plays a countdown as the clock runs out.