Flag Break
Name the flag. Pick how you play.
One Life
Classic: choose a level
Choose a continent
New badges
Fancy a quiz next?Quick trivia for your coffee break
How to play
Flag Break takes about a minute to learn and a lifetime to master.
The basics
- A flag appears. Tap the country you think it belongs to from four choices.
- Green means correct, red means not quite. Either way you'll see a one-line fun fact about the country.
- The next flag appears automatically after a moment. Tap Next if you want to move on sooner.
- Your score, answer streak and progress are shown at the top of the screen.
Game modes
- One Life – twenty flags and a single life. One wrong answer ends the run. The first seven flags are well known, the next seven are harder, and the last six are the rarest flags and trickiest look-alikes. Name all twenty for a flawless run.
- Daily Challenge – the same ten flags for everyone, refreshed at midnight UTC. Share your result as a row of ticks and crosses and see how your friends did.
- Classic – ten flags per round, scored out of ten. A wrong answer doesn't end the round, so it's the relaxed way to practise. There are three levels. Easy is always open and uses well-known flags. Score 7/10 on Easy to unlock Hard, then 7/10 on Hard to unlock Expert. Each level keeps its own best score.
- Speed Round – you have 60 seconds. Name as many flags as you can. A wrong answer takes 3 seconds off the clock, so don't just guess.
- Streak Survival – you have three lives and the round never ends until they're gone. The flags climb from Easy to Hard to Expert the longer you last.
- By Continent – ten flags from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas or Oceania. Great for focused practice.
Ranks, cups and badges
Every round earns a rank title, from Wandering Tourist up to Flag Legend, and one of our four coffee cups to match how you did. Playing regularly unlocks badges, such as On Fire for ten correct answers in a row, or Weekly Wanderer for a seven-day Daily Challenge streak. Your badges live on the Stats page.
How the game adapts
Early questions use well-known flags. As a round goes on, and as you master more flags over time, the game mixes in lesser-known flags and look-alikes such as Romania and Chad. Flags you miss are shown more often in later rounds. Once you've got one right three times in a row, it counts as mastered and appears less often.
Tips for learning flags
- Check the order of colours and the direction of the stripes first.
- Look for a small detail: a star, a crest, a triangle on the hoist side.
- Group flags by pattern. The Learn page has a guide to the most commonly confused look-alikes.
- Read the fun fact even when you get it right. A memorable story is the best memory hook.
Keyboard shortcuts
On a computer, press 1–4 to choose an answer and Enter to go to the next flag.
Your progress
Scores, streaks and badges are saved in your own browser on this device. They are never sent to us. Clearing your browser data will reset them.
Learn the flags
Guides, look-alike tips and a fun fact for all 195 flags.
Flag basics: how to read a flag
Most national flags are built from a handful of ideas. Colours often stand for things like land, sea, sky, courage or hope, while shapes give each design its character. Once you recognise these building blocks, flags become much easier to tell apart.
- Tricolours – three equal bands, either horizontal or vertical, are the most common layout in the world. The order of the colours matters.
- Crosses – the Nordic countries use an off-centre cross, while the United Kingdom's Union flag layers three crosses on top of each other.
- Stars and crescents – stars appear on flags from every continent. Crescents are most often seen on flags of countries in Asia and North Africa.
- Emblems – crests, birds, plants and other symbols often sit in the centre or near the hoist (the side nearest the flagpole).
- Canton designs – a small box in the top corner, as on the flags of the United States and Australia.
Tap a group to see the flags side by side and how to tell them apart.
Romania, Chad, Andorra and Moldova
All four use blue, yellow and red vertical bands. Chad's blue is a deeper indigo than Romania's. Andorra and Moldova both add a coat of arms in the middle, and Moldova's features an eagle.
Indonesia, Monaco and Poland
Red and white in two bands. Indonesia and Monaco have red on top, and Monaco's flag is a touch shorter. Poland flips the order with white on top.
Ireland, Côte d'Ivoire, Italy and Mexico
Ireland reads green, white, orange from the pole. Côte d'Ivoire reverses it to orange, white, green. Italy uses red instead of orange, and Mexico adds an eagle emblem in the middle.
Netherlands and Luxembourg
Both are red, white and blue from top to bottom. Luxembourg's blue is a lighter sky blue and its flag is longer.
Australia and New Zealand
Both are blue with the Union flag in the corner and the Southern Cross stars. New Zealand has four red stars, while Australia has five white stars plus a large seven-pointed star under the Union flag.
Mali, Guinea and Senegal
Green, yellow and red vertical bands. Mali starts with green at the pole, Guinea starts with red, and Senegal is like Mali but with a green star in the centre.
Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador
Yellow, blue and red horizontal bands. Colombia's yellow band is twice as thick, Venezuela has an arc of stars, and Ecuador has a coat of arms in the centre.
The Nordic crosses
Denmark is red with a white cross. Norway adds a blue cross inside the white one. Sweden is blue with a yellow cross, Finland is white with a blue cross, and Iceland is blue with a red-edged white cross.
Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Serbia
White, blue and red bands. Russia is plain. Slovakia and Slovenia add a shield near the pole. Serbia reverses the order to red, blue, white and has a coat of arms.
United States, Liberia and Malaysia
Red and white stripes with a blue corner. Liberia has a single white star, Malaysia has a crescent and star on a yellow-trimmed blue canton, and the United States has fifty stars.
About Europe
Europe's flags are some of the most familiar in the world. Many are simple tricolours, a style that spread widely after the French Revolution, and the Nordic countries share the distinctive off-centre cross. The challenge here is the large group of red, white and blue designs, so pay close attention to the order of the bands and any small emblems.
About Asia
Asia is the largest continent and its flags show the widest variety. You'll find a single red disc in Japan, a double pennant in Nepal, wheels, dragons and temples, plus plenty of stars and crescents. Learning the major symbols is the quickest route to spotting a flag from this region.
About Africa
Many African flags use green, yellow and red, a combination inspired by Ethiopia's flag and often called the Pan-African colours. Many designs date from the independence era of the mid-twentieth century. Stars, emblems and diagonal bands help separate flags that share the same colours.
About The Americas
From the Stars and Stripes to the bold diagonals and crests of Caribbean flags, the Americas mix many styles. Several Central American flags share light blue and white stripes, and many South American flags use horizontal bands with a crest in the middle.
About Oceania
The smallest region by number of countries, Oceania includes vivid island flags that use ocean blues, stars and crosses. Several carry the Union flag or the Southern Cross constellation, so look closely at the number and colour of the stars.
No flags match that search.
Ready to test yourself? Start a game.
Flag Break covers the 193 UN member states plus Vatican City and Palestine. Names follow common English usage and imply no view on any political or territorial question. Flag images are public-domain designs, drawn to each flag's official proportions. Spotted a mistake? Let us know.
Your stats
Flags mastered
0 / 195Mastered = right three times in a row.