How to play Guess the Flag LIVE: rounds, points and commands

A YouTube live stream that never stops: a flag appears, scrambled into tiles that sort themselves back into place, and the first players to type the country in the live chat score. No sign-up, no app: a YouTube account to chat is all it takes.

The rounds

Flag rounds: a flag sorts itself back together from a scrambled mosaic. Type the country's name in chat as soon as you know it.
Border rounds: a country's outline, alone on screen. Type the country.
Capital rounds: a flag with four cities beside it. Type A, B, C or D, or the city's name. Only your first answer counts.

The cycle

Chat chooses what comes next: a wheel spins between flags, borders and capitals, weighted by your votes (type 1, 2 or 3, or flags, borders, capitals). A block of six rounds of that kind follows, then a bonus round:

after borders, a map: name every country of a region;
after flags, a flag wall: twelve flags at once;
after capitals, every capital starting with a letter.

In a bonus round the first to name each one scores, and if the room finds them all, every finder's points are doubled. After every two blocks comes a short break with the leaderboards.

Likes count too: every few dozen likes on the live (the counter is on screen) earn a Flag Frenzy, minutes of a flag wall that refills as fast as the room names its flags.

The points

Up to 100 points for a right answer, fewer the longer you take (never under 10).
Harder flags pay more: ×1.5 for medium, ×2 for hard.
The first right answer of a round earns +25.
A streak: from your third right answer in a row, your points are doubled.
Answers are timed from when you typed them, minus the stream's delay: what counts is what was on your screen, not when your message arrived.

Chat commands

!country + your country: every point you score also counts for it on the country leaderboard.
!hide takes you off this site's boards and pages; !show brings you back.
!feedback + your idea: it goes straight to the maker of the game.
Channel members also get !color (their name's colour on stream), !theme and !banner (their page on this site), and !restore (a broken streak back, once a day).

This site

Everything the live has seen is here: today's leaderboards, the records and hall of fame, every player's page, and every flag, capital and outline with how often players get it right. Questions? See the FAQ.