general “Fun” online game

Posted March 24, 2007 • Comments Off on “Fun” online game

http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/game/flag/
I found myself shockingly good at this game. Until I got to this one.

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Don’t you think that’s a little misleading?

Especially since it’s wrong. Midway doesn’t have its own flag, as far as I can tell, because I think no one lives there except birds, but you can go if you can get there, which is neat. Wake Island, however, does have its own flag. Also, it appears to be taken up mostly by an airstrip. Gotta love those strategic locations.

Anyway, I think this game has no end—you just play until you’re sick of it—so stop when it gets old.

But I love flags. And whenever I look at them a few wonderfully trivial things recur to me:

Only one country’s flag is a single solid color, and that color is green, and that country is Libya.
Many African nations have red, yellow, and/or green on their flags.
Many western-hemisphere flags have a layout similar to that of the flag of the United States, and many of those are even red, white, and blue.
Only two countries’ flags are non-rectangular, Cuba’s (a single banner) and Nepal’s (a double banner).
The Union Jack is in the upper-left of the flags of most British Commonwealth countries and former territories (Canada being a notable exception, of course).
All the Scandinavian countries have horizontal crosses on their flags.
A few countries (like Nicaragua) have their names written on their flags. Which is stupid.
Several middle-eastern and north African countries have Arabic writing on their flags, which I’ve always assumed was religious in nature. Which is less stupid, but I still hold that flags shouldn’t have writing on them.
A few flags can be identified by vocabulary, which is also wonderful; if you know what a Maltese cross is, you know the flag of Malta, for instance.