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- Practice modeDraw any flag, unlimited
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- EuropeEuropean flags only
- AfricaAfrican flags only
- AsiaAsian flags only
- AmericasNorth & South America
How to play Draw the Flag
Every day the game names one country and gives you a blank canvas. Your job is to draw that country's flag from memory — no reference image, no hints. When you are done, press Check my flag and your drawing is placed side by side with the real one, along with an accuracy score out of 100.
- Pick a colour from the palette. The colours shown are the ones that appear most often on national flags, so you rarely need anything else.
- Block in the big shapes first. The rectangle and fill tools are much faster than the brush for stripes and backgrounds.
- Add the details — crosses, discs, crescents, stars — with the brush or circle tool.
- Check your flag. You can undo, clear and try again as often as you like before submitting.
How scoring works
Your canvas and the real flag are both divided into a fine grid, and every cell is compared by colour. Cells that should be brightly coloured count for more than cells that should be white, which is why an empty canvas cannot score well against a flag with a lot of white in it. The score rewards getting the right colours in the right places: correct stripe order, the right proportions, a disc that sits where the disc belongs. It does not reward neat brushwork, and it does not expect you to reproduce fine detail — a few flags carry intricate coats of arms, and those are deliberately treated as a broad shape rather than something you have to draw line by line.
Grades
- S (92–100) — essentially the real flag. Colours, layout and proportions all land.
- A (82–91) — right design, small slips in shade or spacing.
- B (70–81) — recognisable at a glance, one element off.
- C (55–69) — the right idea, wrong execution: stripes flipped, colours swapped.
- D (38–54) — some correct colours, wrong arrangement.
- E (below 38) — a different flag entirely. It happens; that is the fun part.
Why flags are harder to draw than to recognise
Most people can pick their own country's flag out of a line-up instantly, then discover they cannot say which side the blue stripe goes on. Recognition and recall are different skills: recognising a flag only needs a rough colour impression, while drawing it forces you to commit to an order, a ratio and a position. That gap is the whole game. It is also why the game turns out to be a genuinely effective way to learn flags — after drawing the Nordic crosses a few times, you will never again mix up Denmark, Norway and Iceland.
A few families of flags cause most of the mistakes. The Nordic cross group differs only in colour and border. The pan-African red-yellow-green tricolours are separated by stripe order and a single emblem. The Dutch, Luxembourgish and Russian tricolours are three shades and one swap apart. Practice mode is the fastest way to drill these — pick a continent and draw the confusable ones back to back.
Frequently asked questions
Is Draw the Flag free?
Yes. The game is free to play in a browser, there is no account to create and nothing to install. It runs on phones, tablets and desktops.
Does a new flag appear every day?
Yes. Everyone in the world gets the same flag on the same day, so scores are directly comparable. The day rolls over at midnight UTC. If you want to keep playing straight away, practice mode has no limit.
Do I need to be good at drawing?
No, and that is the point. Scoring looks at where the colours are, not how steady your hand is. Rectangles and the fill tool will get you a top grade on most flags.
Which flags are included?
The game covers the national flags people most often meet — the whole of the Nordic and European tricolour families, the major Asian, African and American flags, and the tricky ones worth learning. Every flag in the game can be drawn in practice mode, and the list is expanding.
How do I get a perfect score?
Fill the whole canvas — an unpainted margin costs points. Get the stripe order right before you worry about shade, and use the fill tool for large areas so the colour is even. For flags with a central emblem, its position and size matter more than its detail.
Does my streak save?
Your streak, best score and games played are stored in your own browser. Nothing is sent to a server and there is no login, so clearing your browser data or switching device starts a fresh streak.