If you love Wordle and you love flags, this is your daily fix. Guess the Flag is the flag-guessing game: we show you the flag of a mystery country — hidden behind a grid of tiles — and you have six tries to name the country it belongs to.
You start with just one tile of the flag uncovered. Every wrong guess reveals another piece and hands you three clues: how far your guess is from the answer, an arrow pointing toward it, and a proximity percentage that runs hotter as you close in. There’s a new flag every day (the same one for everyone, worldwide), plus an endless mode for when one puzzle isn’t enough.
It’s free, works on any phone or desktop, needs no account, and runs entirely in your browser. Solve it, then copy your spoiler-free emoji grid and challenge your friends to beat your score.
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How to play
- Look at the partly-hidden flag. One tile is uncovered to start — study its colours, stripes and symbols.
- Type a country name and pick it from the list. That counts as one of your six guesses.
- If you’re wrong, another tile of the flag uncovers, and you get the distance to the answer, a direction arrow, and a proximity percentage.
- Use the clues to narrow it down. Follow the arrow toward the answer and watch the percentage climb.
- Name the country before you run out of guesses. The whole flag — and the answer on a world map — is revealed at the end either way.
- Hit Share result to copy your spoiler-free emoji grid, then paste it to friends.
Game modes
Daily: one flag a day, the same for every player in the world. It’s chosen from the calendar date in UTC, so the puzzle flips at midnight UTC and everyone is solving the same flag — which is exactly what makes comparing your share grid fun. Your result is saved, so you can come back and share it any time before the next day.
Endless: a fresh random flag every round, as many as you like. Perfect for practising the trickier flags without touching your daily streak.
How the hints work
Every wrong guess gives you four things to work with. First, another tile of the flag uncovers, so the design gets clearer round by round. Then come the geography clues, borrowed from games like Worldle: the distance is the great-circle distance between your guessed country and the answer (switch between km and miles); the arrow points from your guess toward the answer, so an up-arrow means “head north”; and the proximity percentage tells you how close you are, glowing hotter as you approach 100%. Together they turn a tricky flag into a solvable puzzle.
The geography behind it
Flags are a brilliant geography teacher because their designs cluster by region and history. The Nordic cross unites Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. The pan-Arab colours — red, black, white and green — recur across the Middle East and North Africa. Pan-African red-gold-green ties together Ghana, Senegal, Mali and beyond, while Latin American flags lean on the blue-and-white of independence-era banners. Once you start noticing these families, a half-hidden flag stops being a mystery and starts pointing you to a whole part of the map — and the distance-and-direction hints do the rest.
The game includes 167 countries — the sovereign states with a recognisable national flag and a mappable location. Flag artwork comes from the open-source flag-icons project (public-domain designs sourced from Wikimedia); country positions and names come from Natural Earth and Wikidata. Everything is bundled into the game, so there are no third-party calls, no tracking, and nothing to install.
Frequently asked questions
How do I play Guess the Flag?
You’re shown the flag of a mystery country, mostly hidden behind a grid of tiles. Type a country name (autocomplete helps) and submit your guess. You get six tries. Each wrong guess uncovers another tile of the flag and gives you the distance to the answer, an arrow pointing toward it, and a proximity percentage. Use them to zero in on the right country.
Is it the same flag for everyone each day?
Yes. In Daily mode the mystery flag is chosen from the date in UTC, so every player worldwide gets the same flag on the same day — that’s what makes sharing and comparing your result grid fun. The puzzle changes at 00:00 UTC.
Why is the flag hidden, and how do the tiles work?
The flag is split into a grid of six tiles. You begin with one tile uncovered, and each wrong guess reveals another, so the design gradually comes into view. If you recognise the flag early from a single stripe or symbol, you can win in one guess; if not, you accumulate more of the flag plus the distance and direction clues. When the round ends, the whole flag is shown.
What do the arrows and percentages mean?
After a wrong guess, the arrow points from your guessed country toward the answer (an up-arrow means the answer is to the north). The percentage is how close you are: 100% is correct, and the colour gets hotter as you approach. The distance is the great-circle distance between the two countries, shown in km or miles.
Can I keep playing after the daily puzzle?
Yes — switch to Endless mode for a fresh random flag every round, as many times as you like. Your daily result is saved so you can come back and share it, while Endless lets you practise without affecting your daily streak.
How many flags are included, and where does the data come from?
There are 167 countries in the game. Flag artwork comes from the open-source flag-icons project (public-domain designs from Wikimedia); country names and locations come from Wikidata and Natural Earth (via world-atlas). Distances use each country’s mainland centroid. Everything runs in your browser — no account, no tracking.
More geography games
Enjoyed this one? Try Guess the Country by Shape, the silhouette version, browse all our geography games, test yourself with the US Geography Quiz, or explore every Mappr map tool in the apps directory.
