Daily US State Flag Quiz

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

Today's answer is drawn from all 50 US states. The traps are measurable: 24 of those flags have at least one near-duplicate elsewhere in the set, the closest pair being Maine and Vermont. Proportions help more than people expect, 22 of the flags fly at 2:3, but there are 14 distinct ratios in play, so an unusually long or unusually square flag has already narrowed itself down before you look at the colours.

One state flag, no caption. Name the state that flies it. A dozen states put a blue field behind their seal and dare you to tell them apart, the distance and compass hints are how you narrow it down. 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.

One US state flag a day, on a fixed schedule, means the pool turns over slowly: 50 answers is 50 days before today's could come round again, roughly 1.6 months. The slowness is the point. There is one attempt, the result stands, and a streak is worth something precisely because it cannot be re-rolled. It also means the daily is a poor way to learn the pool and a good way to find out whether you already have.

Every player anywhere gets the same US state flag on the same date, rotating at your local midnight, so everyone's results compare directly. Six guesses, then the answer, then a share card recording how many it took. Progress and streaks live on your own device, 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.