Daily Africa Flag Quiz

Today's mystery flag from Africa, the same one for every player until local midnight.

The largest pack on the site, and the one where the straight-line borders drawn at the Berlin Conference show up most clearly in the outlines. A lot of the continent's shapes are polygons rather than coastlines, which cuts both ways: they are hard to tell apart, but their corners are distinctive once you learn them.

The Sahel states are the usual sticking point, a row of wide shapes across the continent with little coast between them. The island nations off the east coast and the small West African states are where most streaks end.

The pool is the 53 countries of Africa, and the traps are measurable: eight of those flags have at least one near-duplicate elsewhere in the set, the closest pair being Egypt and Yemen. Proportions help more than people expect, 35 of the flags fly at 2:3, but there are eight distinct ratios in play, so an unusually long or unusually square flag has already narrowed itself down before you look at the colours.

One national flag, no caption. Name the country that flies it. Similar tricolours and Pacific ensigns are the usual trap, the distance readout on a wrong guess tells you which hemisphere you're wrong in. You get 6 guesses. Every wrong one returns the great-circle distance to the target, a compass direction pointing at it and a proximity percentage, so a cold start is recoverable, two well-spaced wrong guesses will usually bracket the answer.

Daily mode is one puzzle, drawn from a fixed schedule so that every player anywhere gets the same flag on the same date. It rotates at your local midnight. There is no retry and no reshuffle: six guesses, then the answer, then a share card recording how many it took. That constraint is the point, a streak you can't re-roll is worth something, and the pressure changes how you spend guess two. Progress and streaks are stored on your own device rather than an account, so clearing site data clears them. Full rules, including how the distance and compass hints are calculated, are on the how-to-play page. If you've already played today, endless mode has no limit.