Daily US State Flag Quiz

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

The pool is all 50 US states, and 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.

Daily mode is one puzzle, drawn from a fixed schedule so that every player anywhere gets the same US state 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.