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Flagdle — Daily Flag Reveal

Identify a country from a progressively revealed flag. Each guess advances the reveal; optional yes/no helper questions do not spend guesses, although request-rate limits still apply.

Candidate pool
Flags from the playable country catalog
Questions
No total helper-question budget
Guesses
12
Daily reset
00:00 UTC

Questions that make useful distinctions

Choose a question for the candidates you actually have left. A balanced yes/no split can be useful, but neither answer is guaranteed to eliminate half the pool; overlapping categories and missing facts matter. Prefer explicit predicates to vague terms such as nearby or large.

  1. A hidden part of the flag is not evidence that a color or symbol is absent.
  2. Read feedback about colors and symbols together with the revealed image. Shared attributes do not imply the same flag.
  3. Use specific helper questions about stars, stripes or colors instead of treating a single color as a unique identifier.

Worked example: Kosovo: a partially visible symbol

Illustrative examples explain current fact and eligibility logic. They are not today’s hidden target, measured player results or recorded provider responses.

  1. The Kosovo seed records a blue field, a gold country silhouette and six white stars.
  2. A reveal showing only blue does not yet distinguish Kosovo from other blue-containing flags.
  3. A precise question about stars or a country silhouette can help; the result is still generated by the answer system and can be mistaken. Submit the country name as a guess when ready.

Flagdle has its own scoring formula and no question-efficiency component. Helper questions are not extra country guesses.

Catalog, continent and disputed-region conventions

The current worldwide pool has 195 playable countries. Kosovo is included; Israel is excluded from playable targets and guesses without removing its canonical geography or historical facts. This is a game eligibility policy, not a diplomatic recognition rule. Use the current game suggestions as the candidate list; dependencies and disputed regions shown on a map are not automatically separate guesses.

Continental candidates come from stored physical-continent associations and per-mode exclusions. Europedle additionally excludes Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Georgia; Asiadle additionally excludes Egypt. Americadle combines North America and South America. A country can have multiple associations, so membership in a continental pool is not proof that all of its territory lies there.

The country-border builder normalizes Western Sahara to Morocco, Gibraltar to the United Kingdom, and French Guiana to France. These simplified database conventions can differ from a map’s boundary labels or a geopolitical source. They do not settle sovereignty disputes or automatically change continental eligibility.

Hemisphere associations describe stored territorial bounds, with some mainland overrides. France, for example, has both Eastern and Western associations. Island status is a sourced classification rather than simply an absence of land borders: countries sharing an island can border each other, while Australia is treated as a continent.

Country water access can include inland seas, but landlocked status uses marine access and excludes the Caspian, Aral and Dead Seas. Named direct coastlines are distinct from access through connected seas; only configured parent-water relationships are expanded, not every connection in the world’s oceans. River drainage is not coastal access.

Budgets and scoring

Flagdle uses 12 guesses with unlimited optional helper questions. Its win score combines +500 base points, a guess bonus from +1,500 on the first guess to +50 on the twelfth, up to +300 speed points over 3 minutes, and up to +500 streak points. It has no question-efficiency bonus.

Friend duels are separate from these nine daily modes. Players answer each other’s questions; there is no total question or guess cap, but each action takes a turn, timers apply, and the final reply after a starting-player solve permits a guess or pass, not another question.

Sources, limits and corrections

Country facts combine REST Countries, CIA World Factbook profiles distributed through factbook.json, and curated additions. Some facts are extracted from Wikipedia text using AI. Map boundary assets and Natural Earth-derived globe data are separate from the answer tables.

Supported templates and local facts reduce dependence on AI-generated answers, but data and interpretation can be wrong or outdated. Questions outside local coverage may use retrieved article text or general knowledge through AI fallback. An explanation is not proof of human verification.

Read the source inventory, answer-engine explanation and FAQ. To request a correction, contact us with the mode, date, exact question, answer, explanation and supporting source. Avoid posting today’s target publicly.

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