How to play
You get a country name and a blank canvas. No reference, no hints. Draw the flag, hit reveal, and find out how much of it you actually had.
How the score works
Your drawing and the real flag are both scaled to the same size, blurred, reduced to a small grid and converted into a perceptual colour space. Then three things are measured:
- Colour — 70%. For each part of the flag, did you use the right colour there? Every colour you draw is matched to the closest colour on the real flag, so a slightly-off blue is still that flag's blue. Blue where red should be is not.
- Layout — 20%. Are the colour blocks arranged the way the real flag arranges them? Edges get about 5% of the flag width of slack, so uneven stripes cost you very little.
- Detail — 10%. Emblems, stars, crests and crossings. Worth the least, which is deliberate: nobody reproduces a coat of arms from memory, and you should not lose the game trying.
A French tricolour drawn 28 / 36 / 36 instead of even thirds still scores in the mid-nineties. The same flag drawn red-white-blue instead of blue-white-red scores in the forties. That gap is the whole point.
Tactics that raise your score
- Fill, do not shade. Flat blocks of colour read exactly like the real thing; hatching does not.
- Get the order right before the proportions. Which colour touches the top or the flagpole matters far more than whether the bands are even.
- Use the whole canvas. It is already the flag's official ratio. A drawing with a white margin around it loses layout points for no reason.
- Do the emblem last. It is worth ten points. The blocks are worth ninety.
- Read the feedback. When you swap two bands, the result tells you which two — that is the bit worth remembering for next time.
The tools
Brush, fill, rectangle, circle, line, star and eraser, plus undo and clear. Keyboard shortcuts: B F R C L S E for the tools, ⌘/Ctrl+Z to undo, [ and ] to change brush size. Hold Shift while dragging a rectangle or circle to keep it square.
Hints
Every flag comes with three structure hints. Each one draws more of the flag's skeleton in dashed lines — the divisions first, then where an emblem sits, then the proportion guides. They never show a colour, never name anything, and are drawn above the canvas rather than on it, so they cannot end up in your drawing or in the score.
Taking a hint does not reduce your score. It is recorded instead: the result and the share card both say how many you used, so a hinted 95 is never passed off as a clean one.
The modes
- Daily — one flag a day, the same one for everyone, midnight to midnight UTC. Builds a streak.
- Practice — any of the 194 flags, unlimited, filterable by continent and difficulty.
- Memory Flash — the flag appears for 5, 3 or 1 second, then you draw it. Visual memory rather than knowledge.
- Build — no drawing: pick the layout and the colours in six guesses.
- Vexle Infinite — an endless run, flag after flag, tracking your average and how many you can keep above 70 in a row.
- Archive — any daily that has already been. Never touches your streak.
The daily reset
A new flag appears at 00:00 UTC, and everyone in the world gets the same one. The schedule is fixed in advance, so look-alike flags never land on consecutive days and nothing repeats inside a season. The countdown under a finished puzzle counts down to that reset.
Streaks and stats
Your streak is the number of consecutive days you finished the daily, counted from the completed days themselves — replaying a finished day or opening a second tab cannot inflate it. Miss a day and it starts again. Open Stats in the header for your streak, daily average and score distribution.
Everything is stored in your browser. If you leave halfway through, your drawing is saved and comes back exactly as you left it when you return. There is no account to create and nothing is uploaded — clearing your browser data clears your history too.
Sharing
The share card has your score bars and streak but never the country name, so posting it cannot spoil the day's flag for anyone who has not played yet. One tap copies it, or sends it straight to X, Facebook, Reddit, WhatsApp or Telegram.
Download image saves your drawing as a card you can post anywhere. On the daily it shows your drawing and score only — never the flag — so it stays spoiler-safe; in practice, archive and infinite rounds it puts your drawing next to the real flag.
Questions
Why did my drawing score lower than it looks?
Almost always colour placement. Colour is 70% of the score and it is judged position by position — the right colours in the wrong order score badly even when the drawing looks tidy.
Why did a messy drawing score so well?
Because the scorer blurs both images before comparing them and allows every edge about 5% of the flag width of slack. Neatness is not what is being measured.
Does the shade of colour I pick matter?
Barely. Each colour you use is matched to the closest colour on the real flag, and being off-shade costs at most a few percent. Picking a colour that is not on the flag at all is what hurts.
Can I play the same daily flag twice?
The daily result is recorded once. You can redraw the same flag as often as you like from its own page or in practice mode — those attempts update your personal best for that flag without touching the daily streak.
What happens if I close the tab mid-drawing?
Your drawing is saved as you go and restored when you come back, along with the tools you had used. Progress belongs to that day only: yesterday's unfinished drawing is never carried into today's puzzle.
What are the keyboard shortcuts?
B brush, F fill, R rectangle, C circle, L line, S star, E eraser. Ctrl or ⌘ + Z undoes, and [ and ] change the brush size.