Endless Asia Flag Quiz

Asia flags back to back with no daily limit, dealt from a shuffled bag.

The widest range of anything on the site: the pack holds both the most populous countries on Earth and several of the smallest by land area, and outlines that run from a near-perfect rectangle to an archipelago of thousands of islands.

Central Asia is where this pack is won or lost. Five countries whose names all end the same way, with borders drawn in the 1920s that interlock in ways no other region matches.

The pool is the 48 countries of Asia, and the traps are measurable: ten of those flags have at least one near-duplicate elsewhere in the set, the closest pair being Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam. Proportions help more than people expect, 23 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.

Endless mode drops the once-a-day limit and deals continuously. It draws from a shuffled bag rather than picking at random, which matters more than it sounds: random sampling would hand you the same handful of easy flags repeatedly while never showing you others at all, whereas a bag guarantees you meet every one of the 48 answers before any repeats. That makes this the mode to drill in, the fastest way to turn the half of the pool you're guessing at into the half you know. Full rules, including how the distance and compass hints are calculated, are on the how-to-play page, and today's single scheduled puzzle is on the daily board.