Flagdle

A geography site whose headline mode is not the flag puzzle it is named after. The Daily Challenge draws one mystery country for everyone and walks you through it in nine chained rounds - flag, silhouette, coat of arms, capital, a neighbour's flag, population and currency, GDP per head, official languages, land area - so that by the end you have met the same country from nine angles. Five other single-puzzle modes sit alongside it, each with its own daily answer.

1. Start the Daily Challenge from the home page. The numbered strip at the top is your route through the nine rounds; they unlock one after the other.
2. Round one hides the day's flag behind nine tiles. Type a country into the search field.
3. Each attempt uncovers one more tile of the flag.
4. Solve the round or run out of attempts, then move to the next one. The country never changes, so every clue you have already collected still applies.
5. Each round pays points according to how many attempts you spent, and your total for the day feeds the daily, weekly and monthly leaderboards.

The nine-round format is what separates this from the pile of one-shot flag games: instead of a single yes-or-no about a flag, you spend a few minutes triangulating one country from its outline, its money, its languages and its size, which is closer to actually learning it. A run takes about five minutes and covers the 195 UN member states, in the browser and without an account. It fits anyone who wants a geography drill with a scoreboard, and teachers looking for a five-minute daily ritual. It fits badly if you want a thirty-second habit, because nine rounds is nine rounds, or if long marketing copy under the board bothers you - the page carries a lot of it. And there is no archive: skip a day and that country is gone.

Rounds are answered rather than punished. The flag loses one tile per attempt and the counter under the board reads plainly as 'Attempt 1 / 8'. What a miss hands back depends on the mode: Worldle returns distance, direction and continent, Hints adds its clues one at a time, and Capitals gives you the continent first and the first letter after that. What you score in a round depends on how many attempts it took.

Daily Challenge

The main event: nine chained rounds on one mystery country, each round paying points by attempts used, feeding the daily, weekly and monthly leaderboards.

Flags

The original puzzle. One flag behind nine tiles, three tries.

Capitals

A country is named, you supply its capital in three tries. Miss once and you are told the continent, miss twice and you get the first letter.

Hints

No image at all. Clues arrive one at a time - continent, population, language - and you have six tries.

Worldle

The site's own take on silhouette guessing: a country outline, six tries, with distance, direction and continent after each miss.

Quiz

Ten themed questions a day, on geography and history among other subjects.

• In the challenge, spend the flag round's attempts rather than agonising over them: you get eight, and each one uncovers another tile of the flag.
• All nine rounds are the same country, so a clue is not spent when the round ends. What you learned in round one is still true when you reach GDP per head or land area six rounds later.
• The neighbour's-flag round is a border question wearing a flag costume. Work from who touches whom - an island has no land neighbours at all, which is either a free elimination or a dead end depending on where the clues have pushed you.