Scoring
Flag color game scoring
Updated September 13, 2026
How each round turns into points, what the bands mean, and how closeness is measured.
How scoring works
Each round of the flag color game is scored from 0 to 10 with two decimals, like 8.13, based on how close your color is to the real flag color. Five rounds add up to a maximum of 50 points. The closer your guess lands, the more the round pays: a near-perfect match earns 9 or 10, a way-off guess earns 0.
What the score bands mean
| Score band | What it means |
|---|---|
| 9.00-10.00 | Nearly perfect: hard to tell apart from the real color |
| 5.00-8.99 | Close: the right idea, small drift in one control |
| 1.00-4.99 | Rough: same family, clearly not the same color |
| 0.00-0.99 | Way off: at least the reveal screen is interesting |
How we measure closeness
Equal moves around the color wheel don’t always look equal, so we score what your eye sees rather than the raw control values. Your guess is compared with the real color in the Oklab color space, a model built to measure how different two colors appear to people. In practice: keep adjusting until the color looks right, because that is exactly what gets rewarded.
Your best score
Your best total is saved only in your browser, between visits, so you always have a target to beat. It never leaves your device, and clearing your browser’s site data wipes it. Beat it, then use the Share your score button on the results screen to send your result to a friend.