Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz
flagquizzes.comOnce I got to 37% total countries identified (seen?), it basically stopped showing me new countries. I went through five or so rounds without seeing anything that I hadn’t seen before. Which was gratifying, since I was getting 20/20 every time, but you might tweak it a little to add in new countries more frequently.
Nicely made! I thought I'm good with flags, and then there come a question of jordan, palestine and two more similar flags.
I made a similar but uglier little party game https://geo-dude.com for my kids. Supports up to 4 players
This looks really good, but sometimes it seemed like there was no country to click on for the tiny islands?
For St Lucia, for instance, the closest visible country was (I think) Puerto Rico. I clicked on it, and then it showed me where St Lucia was in the middle of the black ocean. As far as I could tell, even zooming in, there was morning to click on there.
Same thing happened with Micronesia. There are very few islands in the Pacific visible.
Hey thanks for checking it out! Really glad the site has more audience than me and my son only and appreciate the feedback!
Mind if I ask which mode were you playing? Was it "Find a country" or "Guess a country"? It might be due to the countries being too small. I maintain a separate small countries list [1] from the bigger ones [2]
[1] https://github.com/kmcheung12/geo-dude/blob/main/public/data...
[2] https://github.com/kmcheung12/geo-dude/blob/main/public/data...
I didn't come up with a good way to show small countries so it is the way it is. Would love to hear suggestion though!
Find a country. I tried it again and the very first country was St Lucia again. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/fuhO0lh
already played it with my kids. its fun !. need to improve the country randomization. south america keep pointing into peru.
If you read this message, can you provide more context please? Are you choosing the "Name the country" mode with question from "Same continent". It might be that south america has only 13 countries in my database, so it appears to be repeated.
I just turned the repo public for your reference.
Country list at https://github.com/kmcheung12/geo-dude/blob/main/server/coun...
Picking a question from a continent is shuffle and then pick question per round, so "pick without replacement" https://github.com/kmcheung12/geo-dude/blob/main/server/inde...
Disclaimer, used a lot of AI so I didn't read every line of code
Thanks for the feedback, will look into it!
stream of thoughts:
"all countries" doesn't really show all countries. It seems all countries might be in the pool, but there is no weighted randomness, so you end up getting the same flags, and only a few new ones.
Forcing all flags to be in the same aspect ratio really makes the flags look strange, or rather, not how they really are. This also makes things like Monaco/Indonesia identification more difficult, and flags with horizontal stripes to look strange (Sudan, Cuba, etc).
Some flags seem to look odd or broken? Such as Ecuador which looks like a kid drew it and is pretty broken. Some flags have a weird border around them too, as if they haven't been placed or rendered correctly.
I'm not sure if having a list of flags just below the quiz helps the integrity of it. I'm also not sure of all the AI generated stuff. Are people really mixing up Morroco and Veitnam? Getting to that page again is difficult and unclear, you need to click the flag from the country page, or get it wrong in a quiz. I feel it's a little confusing to have separate pages describing the country and flag. Especially considering its a website about flags.
Is there a mode to run through all the countries, instead of just 20?
A while ago I practiced every day on an android app, and the pleasure I got when I finally got 196/196 was extremely satisfying.
I'd also like to recommend that flags of different aspect ratios be shown correctly.
Sinister mode: Romania versus Chad, Monaco versus Indonesia, Senegal versus Mali, Egypt/Syria/Iraq/Yemen, etc.
Huh, it has grouping for the multiple choice, so for a red and white flag (2 horizontal stripes) with some stars the options are Monaco, Indonesia, Singapore, Poland. All of which are horizontally striped and have those 2 colors.
Same with the Nordic flags, which have similar geometry but different colors.
Nicely curated.
The flag of Paraguy says "Paraguy" on it, you might want to blur that.
There is a great phone app called World Geography Quiz that will quiz you on flags, country shapes, capitals, and all the rest. It has a staged entry thing where you get access to more categories and regions as you play. I'm not affiliated with it or anything, just thought of it when I saw this because it's become a real go-to geo quiz fix for me.
This is a lot of fun. My 'biggest' gripe is that in the shapes quiz Tuvalu and the Seychelles are so tiny that no image displayed for me that I could see.
Thought this was going to be Wordle for how to download something correctly using wget.
Nice website! Could you tell use a bit more about this project? What prompted you to make it? I've been looking for a good ad-free, account-free minimal flag learning website and this looks like a good fit.
It would be nice if the proportions of the flags were respected. For example Vatican and Switzerland have a 1:1 ratio (square).
Nepal with it's extraordinary format seems to be represented ok.
It’s very obvious that the layout is ai, refine it a bit.
It's not ai
This is cool, but is testing recognition, not recall. It needs an extra challenging mode where you have to provide the country, not multiple choice.
There is an option on the top view plane where you can switch from "Multiple choice" to "Type the answer".
hah, knew I should have dug around more
This is so cool. We used to play a paper version of this game back home and this really brings back feelings.
Btw, really smooth. It works really well!
Probably a useful bookmark if you’re going on The Amazing Race. They always throw in a flag quiz toward the end.
Fun way to pass time Apparently i dont know my flags as well as i thought i did
It should show the meaning of the colors and symbols of the flag after the user answers.
Awesome app! I got 14/20.
Cool app. I enjoy the variety of game options, not just guessing the flag.
The app is designed very well and it is very addictive.
18/20 on hard, some misclicks :P Anki training works!
It reminds of Fun with Flags segments in Big Bang Theory
Fun, clean, and dangerously addictive got 15/20
Guessing the flags is actually really hard
It’s really a great place to cure boredom
Very good app and nice score
Sheldon?
really cool app ! so addictive haha
anybody remember sporcle?
did we crash it? :(