Release Notes 📝

v1.3.0 – August 29th, 2026

Latest

Added Practice, Daily Challenge, Speed Round, Perfect Ten, Multiple Choice, and adaptive Mastery Review modes.
Added per-mode leaderboards and persistent per-flag learning history.
Mastery now saves immediately after every correct answer.
Redesigned mode selection and added clearer answer feedback, optional sound, and mobile/accessibility improvements.

v1.2.5 – June 15th, 2026

Added the 2026 World Cup qualifiers challenge! Play the quiz and test your knowledge of the qualifying nations.

v1.2.4 – June 9th, 2026

Added the "Miscellaneous" challenge, includes HRE and USSR!
Names of collected flags are now displayed on the quiz page
Minor bug fixes and styling improvements

v1.2.3 – June 3rd, 2026

Added 20+ new flags! Hmong, Iroquois, Corsica, and much more!
Added Sovereign Military Order of Malta to "Miscellaneous" category
Hover over collected flags to see their fun fact
Minor styling improvements around the site

v1.2.2 – June 2nd, 2026

All flag images updated to be higher quality!
Styling and quality of life improvements
Privacy policy updates (mostly just rewording)
Fixed bug related to filtering on homepage search

v1.2.1 – June 1st, 2026

Styling and quality of life improvements
Added many new cool flags!
This includes: Eelam Tamils, Igbo, Circassia, Amazigh, and Sámi

v1.2.0 – May 31st, 2026

Try out alternative names when searching for countries! (i.e. DRC, USA, UK, UAE, etc.)
Available for both index search and quiz
Changed Ivory Coast to Côte d'Ivoire, Turkey to Türkiye, Aland to Åland, and New Zealand to Aotearoa
Login no long required for looking at country details
Quiz page no longer fully reloads when you submit a guess
In quiz, enter and tab keys now submit the first suggestion in the dropdown!

v1.1.6 – May 30th, 2026

You can now play without logging in! 😉
Login required for leaderboard, mastery, and settings
Working on further HTMX integration for smoother quiz experience

v1.1.5 – May 25th, 2026

More flags added!
Security improvements and minor bug fixes

v1.1.4 – May 17th, 2026

New styling for quiz, buttons, gamemode cards, and more!
Username validation now checks for blocked words
New descriptions for each challenge
New flags added: Assyria and Uyghur
Minor bug fixes and improvements

v1.1.3 – May 13th, 2026

Added hints in quiz! Just click the button and reveal a hint about the country
New challenges have been added! Try out "Autonomous Regions" or "Subnational Entities"!
Continent challenges are now marked with a checkmark when you've mastered them
Continent challenges now have a progress bar for flag mastery

v1.1.2

New flags added: Gibraltar, Aland, Faroe Islands, Cherokee, Navajo, and many more!
Added better filtering for home page search

v1.1.1

You can change your username and password now!
The rest of the continent game modes are now playable
Continent challenges are marked with their difficulty level

v1.1.0

Continent challenges added - play games for specific continents, North America already available!
Quiz screen tweaks - see the pool size, a victory screen, and a "change game mode" button
Index and footer tweaks, cleaner and more modern

v1.0.4

Mastery page - see every flag alphabetically; flags you've collected are unlocked
No repeated flags (you won't see the same flag twice in a game)
Performance - the country list is now cached in memory, less database queries
Bug fix: refreshing after a wrong guess no longer resubmits the form and double-counts your game

v1.0.3

Email confirmation - new accounts receive a verification email
reCAPTCHA v2 (sign-up form is protected against bots)
Nav redesigned, cleaner navbar with mobile dropdown
Release notes page added - this page!

v1.0.2

Security (quiz state moved to server-side sessions)
Leaderboard (top 10 players ranked by high score)
Privacy policy (added full privacy policy page)
Fun facts - each country now has an interesting fact on its detail page.
Autocomplete dropdown (guess suggestions as you type)
Bigger and cleaner success and error notifications

v1.0.1

Google OAuth added (sign in with your Google account)
Flag images (switched from emoji to Wikimedia flag images)
Responsive layout (quiz and all pages work on mobile)
Footer (links and site info added)
Donation button (support the site!)

v1.0.0

Initial launch

Flag guessing quiz with streak tracking
Account system with email login, high score, and settings
Country detail pages with capital, population, etc.
Country search on the home page
Dark / light theme toggle