🏳️ Flag Guesser

How to play

A flag is shown and you name the country from four options. A run is fifteen flags drawn from a pool of thirty, and each one gives you eight seconds. Answer or let the bar run out, and the next flag follows straight after.

• Start — shuffles the pool, takes fifteen flags and begins. It becomes Play Again at the end of a run.
• Option tile — click a country name to answer. All four stop responding once you have picked, and your tile turns green or red.

Scoring

A correct answer scores 10 points plus 3 for each answer already in your current streak, so answers get progressively more valuable: 10, then 13, then 16, and so on with no ceiling. A wrong answer or a timeout scores nothing and resets the streak to zero. The timer bar drains over eight seconds and a timeout reveals the country before moving on after one second. The pool holds thirty countries across the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, and the three decoys are drawn at random from the other twenty-nine, so they are not grouped by region.

Tips

• The streak bonus is where the points are. A clean run of fifteen scores far more than fifteen correct answers broken up by mistakes.
• The Nordic flags are the trap in this pool. Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland all appear and all use the offset cross, so learn the colour pairs rather than the shape.
• Because decoys are drawn at random from the whole pool, they are often from a different continent. Eliminating the obviously wrong ones usually leaves a straight two-way choice.

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