Flag Connections (Flagdoku)

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Sort sixteen flags into groups of four that each share something with the Flag of the Day.

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Flag Connections #122 on Flagdoku: India as the Flag of the Day above a four by four board of flags including Taiwan, Seychelles, Germany, Guam and Kazakhstan

Flag Connections is a daily puzzle from Flagdoku that puts sixteen flags on a board and asks you to sort them into four groups of four. Each puzzle is numbered and built around a Flag of the Day, and you can make four mistakes. Past puzzles sit in an archive.

About Flag Connections (Flagdoku)

Flag Connections is one of the flag games on Flagdoku, played in the browser. It follows the NYT Connections format with flags in place of words: sixteen flags, each labelled with its country, territory or region, and the job of finding the groups of four that belong together.

The twist is the Flag of the Day shown at the top. The instructions ask you to group four flags that share something unique with it, so the day's flag is the starting point for working out the links. On puzzle #122 the Flag of the Day was India, and the board mixed national flags such as Armenia, Germany, Spain, Nigeria and Kazakhstan with Guam, Taiwan and the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire. You select four and press Submit. A wrong group costs one of four mistake dots, and when three of your four are right the game names those three, which helps you close in on the group.

There is a hint button with four hints, a shuffle button and a settings menu with dark mode. The archive lists past puzzles by season, coloured by whether you have finished, started or failed them, with a random pick and a stats view. Players can also build their own puzzles and share them.

It suits players who know their flags, or want to, and like a Connections board that rewards looking closely at colours, symbols and layouts. The page carries ads from a network, but none sit on the board.

How to play Flag Connections (Flagdoku)

Look at the Flag of the Day and the sixteen flags below it.
Select four flags you think share the same feature with each other.
Press Submit; a wrong group costs one of your four mistakes, and if three were right the game names them.
Keep going until all four groups are found, using a hint or the shuffle button if you are stuck.

Screenshots

Flag Connections share card: a four by four board of flags with Peru, Canada, Austria and Poland grouped in yellow

Flag Connections #122 at phone size: India as the Flag of the Day and the sixteen flags in a four by four grid

Tips

Study the Flag of the Day closely: its colours, symbols and layout point to the groups.
Look for features rather than places, such as a star, a crescent, a triangle at the hoist or a coat of arms.
Use the shuffle button to see the flags in a new order when the grid starts to blur.
When the game says three of your four were right, keep those three and swap only the fourth.