How to play The Flag Slice

The aim

Each puzzle hides a real flag and shows a pie chart of its colours instead. Every slice is labelled with its percentage, and a legend names each colour. Your job is to work out which flag the pie belongs to.

A round, step by step

• Read the palette: study the slices, their percentages and the colour names.
• Make your call: search the list of flags and tap your answer. There are no spelling traps.
• Use up to three guesses. A wrong guess costs nothing but the guess.
• Reveal the flag, bank your points and move on to the next flag in the set.

The daily set

A new set of ten flags arrives at midnight UTC. It runs from three easy flags through four medium ones to three hard ones, and it is the same for every player.

The catalogue holds more than 2,000 flags: countries, states and provinces, capital and major cities, territories and international organisations. Easy flags are well known; hard ones are flags few people have seen.

Scoring

Each flag is worth up to three points, so a perfect day scores 30. Help is always your choice, and its price is shown before you take it.

• Name the flag without a paid hint: 3 points.
• Reveal the clue, which says what kind of place the flag belongs to and where, and narrows the flag list: minus 1 point.
• Reveal the layout, which describes how the colours are arranged: minus 1 point.

When two flags share a pie

Different flags can make the same pie. Indonesia, Monaco and Poland are all half red and half white, for example. When colours genuinely match, the game accepts any of those flags as correct and shows you the others once the flag is revealed.

Tips

• Count the colours first. Two-colour flags narrow the field fast.
• Look for a dominant colour. A slice over 60% often means a plain field with a design on it.
• Small slices matter. A 3% slice of yellow is often a star, a sun or a coat of arms.
• Take the layout hint before the clue when you know the palette but not the arrangement; it costs the same and often settles it.