The real flag flashes — crest, star and all. Recreate its colors from memory.
Ready when you are
You have seen the French tricolore a thousand times. But could you dial in its exact navy? Flags shows you the real flag — crest, star, eagle and all — lets it wave for five seconds, then takes it away and asks you to rebuild every band colour from memory. Forty flags, from gimme (Austria’s red-white-red) to brutal (Colombia’s all-chromatic triple), and it runs as the home of our Color World Cup, where your scores fly for your country.
Each round shows a genuine three-band flag — a vertical tricolour like France or Ireland, or a horizontal one like Germany or the Netherlands — drawn from its official artwork, emblems included. The flag’s name is on screen the whole time, so it is a memory test, not a quiz. After the flash, three slider banks appear, one per band. Rounds are ordered easiest to hardest: flags with a free white or black band come first, the all-colour monsters last. If we can place you, your own country’s flag is saved for the finale. There is also a Daily Flags run — the same five flags for everyone in the world that day — built for comparing share grids with friends.
The trap is assuming flag colours are the pure primaries they look like at a glance. Most are not. France’s post-2020 blue is a far deeper navy than people dial; Germany’s gold is legally gold, not yellow; Argentina’s celeste is paler than anyone dares. Anchor on the band you remember most confidently, get it exactly right, then judge the other two relative to it. White and black bands are near-free points — bank them fast and spend your five seconds staring at the chromatic bands.
Each band is scored separately with CIEDE2000, the perceptual colour-difference standard, then the three are averaged for the round. Ten points a round, five flags, fifty points possible. Two strong bands and one weak one still average to a respectable score — but a confident-yet-wrong band is punished hard. Post a score and it counts toward your country on the Color World Cup table, and you can send friends a share grid where every row reads as the flag you just played.
