Comments on: The People's Republic of What The Heck Is That?

The People's Republic of What The Heck Is That?

moonbird — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 10:49:25 -0800

Test your knowledge of world flags. 15 per round, 10 minutes per round. Some clues available, annoyingly addictive.

By: Leam Srehtorb

Leam Srehtorb — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 10:57:42 -0800

Great fun! Did you know that SCOTLAND has two flags. There is the 'Royal Flag of Scotland', displaying a red lion rampant on a yellow background, and the other flag of Scotland is known as the 'Saltire' and consists of a white cross on a blue background.

By: maxsparber

maxsparber — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:03:22 -0800

All I know is many of these flags are artistically displeasing. Too many stars, garish tricolors, words written on them ... ooooh. Deja vu.

By: gimonca

gimonca — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:06:59 -0800

It displayed El Salvador to me without the center coat of arms. Monaco was another iffy one, since it's indistinguishable from Indonesia. Cheat Sheet

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:12:55 -0800

well, that culled my artificially high opinion of my knowledge of nations' flags. nice link, thanks.

By: sellout

sellout — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:13:00 -0800

Doesn't work properly in my Firefox, still gets the scoring wrong in Safari. Nice idea for a game, though.

By: mdonley

mdonley — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:15:15 -0800

I thought I was doing fine, until I got Martinique, which I thought was an integral part of France and used the French flag and the euro. I lost further confidence after British Indian Ocean Territory, too. Pshh.

By: gimonca

gimonca — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:35:49 -0800

Should I be worried that the flags are all in .wmf? Just kidding. KIDDING.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:42:49 -0800

Pshh. You're bothered because they're not following restrictions you made up?

Every country of the world is represented in this game. Additionally, there are several additional flags and information on specific territories who have their own flag and identity.

By: gimonca

gimonca — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:45:36 -0800

It's also displaying Thailand as Costa Rica.

By: kalimac

kalimac — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:01:58 -0800

*Wow* I suck. Must go play more, this is truly addictive.

By: Protocols of the Elders of Awesome

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:57:52 -0800

My life is now complete.

By: Protocols of the Elders of Awesome

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:02:29 -0800

I believe that technique is known in vexillology as "snakes on a plain".

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:03:41 -0800

Beta at best. The filenames for the images seem to correspond to the country codes of the flags, which gives you an easy cheat. They should have randomized the names. The flag for Saudi Arabia is sa.gif, for example. It claimed that Zambia was on the continent of Zimbabwe, and also it reset my score to zero when I missed a bonus question, which was not only arithmetically suspect but runs contrary to my understanding of the term "bonus question".

By: footnote

footnote — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:24:41 -0800

Despite the flaws, very cool. I really needed a way to learn all the flags, so I can identify which embassy lawns are the safest to spit on while jogging in DC.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:32:15 -0800

Yeah, I've been struggling with the big flaw of having your score reset to 0 after 1000. Otherwise. it's giving me a good workout.

By: isopraxis

isopraxis — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:36:49 -0800

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:53:32 -0800

Arrgghh! All those islands!!!

By: soiled cowboy

soiled cowboy — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:03:16 -0800

One of the bonus questions was "Which American state was formerly an independent republic" and listed both Texas and California as options. It, incorrectly, said California was incorrect.

By: H-Bar

H-Bar — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:15:26 -0800

There's a question about what separates Europe from Africa, but it seems they meant to ask what separates Europe from Asia. The answer it gives is the Ural mountains and river.

By: salmacis

salmacis — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:21:36 -0800

I gave up on it when I noticed it wasn't scoring for me correctly in Safari. And 'Colombia' was misspelled.

By: Popular Ethics

Popular Ethics — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:53:27 -0800

Snakes on a plain. Teehee.

By: darsh

darsh — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:03:11 -0800

Scoring is off for me too. but the game is addictive

By: kosem

kosem — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:14:03 -0800

This is such a great refresher. And I feel you on the score reset Moonbird.

By: Jikido

Jikido — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:31:47 -0800

And Ukraine is on the continent of Ukraine?

By: Jikido

Jikido — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:33:09 -0800

And Ukraine is on the continent of Ukraine? Perhaps they couldn't decide on Europe or Asia. Eurasia?

By: H-Bar

H-Bar — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:11:27 -0800

Apparently the ruins of Persepolis have been relocated from Iran to Botswana.

By: Protocols of the Elders of Awesome

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:23:30 -0800

The map is Not Available. The capital is Not Available. The continent is Israel. The unit of currency is New Israeli Shekel. The neighbors are Egypt. soo...annoying...

By: Protocols of the Elders of Awesome

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:24:57 -0800

Palestine btw

By: coach_mcguirk

coach_mcguirk — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:47:40 -0800

Heh, details for Scotland : The continent is England. The capital is None. The unit of currency is the British Pound. The neighbors are Ireland, & France. Oh dear.

By: Megafly

Megafly — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:54:06 -0800

I like the clue The unit of currency is the Moldovan Leu uhhhhh, Moldava maybe?

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:29:10 -0800

Yeah, I had "The unit of currency is the Belizean Dollar". Hmm... I wonder.

By: lathrop

lathrop — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:54:35 -0800

Also, the emblems ought to be clearer/larger; e.g. for the many flags based on the U.K. Blue Ensign.

By: donkelly

donkelly — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:49:16 -0800

Continent of Oceania? This is Canadian geography.

By: briank

briank — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:08:05 -0800

It's also displaying Thailand as Costa Rica. Thank you for proving that I have not descended into complete dementia.

By: zouhair

zouhair — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:30:22 -0800

Poland Indonesia

By: [expletive deleted]

[expletive deleted] — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:36:04 -0800

does this work in any browser? I tried firefox and IE, both times I got an error page halfway through the first round.

Warning: mysql_result(): Unable to jump to row 0 on MySQL result index 9 in /home/vhost/www/flag-game.com/main.php on line 521

By: Lebannen

Lebannen — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:48:28 -0800

Current Score = Warning: mysql_result(): Unable to jump to row 0 on MySQL result index 8 in /home/vhost/www/flag-game.com/main.php on line 486 It seems to do this to me if I'm actually getting anything right; successfully get a couple of countries and bonuses, then get stuffed. Bah. Also, Persepolis, WTF? And the oldest recorded dog in the world was 29, what does that have to do with ANY kind of geography??