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Guides & Help

Plain rules for each mode. Pick a guide to see the goal, how to play, and a few tips.

Mode guides

Goal, how to play, and tips for each challenge type.

  • Daily Flag

    How Daily Flag works on flags.games: one shared five-flag board per UTC day, streaks, guesses, and where to check today's leaderboard after you finish.

  • Similarities

    Guide to Similarities on flags.games: compare two lookalike flags, notice shade and emblem differences, and learn how scoring works when you pick the real country.

  • Blur

    How Blur works on flags.games: the flag starts soft and sharpens over time. Learn when to guess, what the timer means, and tips for reading color blocks early.

  • Holes

    Holes help for flags.games: poke holes in a hidden flag, use partial shapes and colors, and decide when you have enough to name the country.

  • Puzzle

    Puzzle mode guide on flags.games: four scrambled quarters of a flag. Learn how to swap and slide tiles, spot stripe and seal clues, and finish before you stall out.

  • Connections

    Connections help on flags.games: sort sixteen flags into four groups of four by color, region, history, or design, and see how mistakes and category locks work.

Common questions

Stuck on something that is not covered in a mode guide? Check here before you send feedback.

Is flags.games free?

Yes. Solo play, the daily challenge, every challenge mode, the flag explorer, learn mode, and multiplayer rooms all run in the browser at no cost.

Sign in when you want profile stats, XP, streaks, and friends on your account.

Do I need an account to play?

No. Solo, daily, challenges, and multiplayer work as a guest.

Sign in when you want XP, profile stats, daily streak on your profile, and friends synced across devices.

How many flags are included?

Quiz modes draw from 205 country and regional flags, including sovereign countries and regional flags like Scotland and Wales.

Hard Solo can add 29 more territory flags in Settings → General or from the difficulty menu on /play.

Learn on /learn groups study into flag packs (Countries, Territories, and Partially recognized) on one page. The explorer covers all 242 catalog flags.

Can I play with friends?

Yes. Open /lobby to create a room or join with a code. Everyone in the room gets the same rounds at the same time.

Invite people with the room's six-character code, its invite link, or the QR code. A room holds up to 40 players, and the host picks the rules.

Sign in to save your display name and avatar for next time.

How is my score calculated?

Solo: every correct answer is worth 10 points, in every mode.

Multiplayer: a correct answer is worth 100. Answer in the first 20% of the clock for up to 20 more, or in under 1.25 seconds for a Speed Demon bonus of 30. Wrong answers and running out of time score nothing.

Does Typing mode accept typos and/or abbreviations?

Yes. Capitals and accents don't matter, common abbreviations work (USA, UK, UAE, Czechia, Burma and others), and a letter or two off still counts.

Typing another real country's name, like Slovenia for Slovakia, counts as a miss.

Can I play just one part of the world?

Yes. In Flag Quiz, change "Flags from" from World to a region: Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas, Central America, Caribbean, Oceania, Middle East. You'll play every country in it.

Hosts can pick a region for multiplayer rooms the same way.

Does flags.games work on phone and tablet?

Yes. It runs in a modern mobile browser.

Tap targets and layouts are built for small screens. For the smoothest audio in multiplayer, headphones help.

What's the difference between solo play and the daily challenge?

Solo on /play is open-ended: pick difficulty, mode, and pool size and play as many rounds as you like.

The daily on /daily is one shared puzzle per UTC day with a global leaderboard. Everyone sees the same five flags, from the committed daily challenge schedule.

Why don't my stats or streak show on another phone or browser?

Without an account, most game progress stays in the browser you used. Learn mode on /learn stores reviews and streaks locally.

Sign in to sync profile stats, daily streak on your profile, XP, and social features across devices. Learn card progress syncs when signed in; learn streak and activity chart stay on this device for now.

When does the daily challenge reset?

Every day at midnight UTC. Everyone gets the same five flags on the same UTC date, chosen from the daily challenge schedule.

The date on the daily page follows UTC, not your local clock, so the reset may land in your morning or evening.

Can I replay past daily challenges?

Yes. Open the Archive at /daily/archive to browse every UTC day since launch.

Pick a day to replay that puzzle. Practice runs do not change today's streak or leaderboard standing.

How do I turn off sounds?

Open Settings and go to Audio. You can turn sound effects off there.

Are there keyboard shortcuts?

Yes. Press ? anywhere to see them. In a game you can answer and move on without touching the mouse.

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