Flag Museum
- 2–6 players
- 10–20 min
- Ages 10+
A competitive game: use a country's flag and trade goods as clues to guess its population, lifespan and more, then line the cards up from smallest to largest. Every time you flip a card, you'll say, "What? That many?!"
Price: ¥2,900. Coming to Game Market Spring 2027 (Japan).
How to play
On your turn, just place one of your flag cards in a row!
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Place
Put one card from your hand where you think it fits in a row. Any row is fine.
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Say
Name the country and say why it goes there. Wrong is fine.
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Flip
Read the number. If the row is still in order, the card stays. If not, it goes to your Mistake pile.
Winning
The game ends when everyone's cards are gone. The player with the fewest cards in their Mistake pile wins.
Advanced rules
With a draw pile, the first player to run out of cards wins.
For details, see the rulebook (PDF).
Sample flag cards
The front shows the flag and the main exports and imports; the back shows the country's numbers and a map. Click to enlarge.
The back lists area, population, GDP, GDP per capita, main religions, regime span, country span, troops and war deaths, with world ranks. The red area on the map is the territory ruled in the card year; the small flags on either side are the earlier and later countries; the bottom rows show allies and rivals in that year. The year next to the country name is the card year. Countries of today use 2021; countries of the past use the year when the country was largest, or a year with good data. The same country may appear on several cards (Britain: 1750, 1920 and 2021).
Sample topic cards
Components
- 155 flag cards (104 countries of today, 51 countries of the past)
- 10 topic cards (4 Normal, 6 Hard)
- Rulebook
- Flag reference sheet
About the data
The numbers on the cards come from public databases such as the World Bank, the Maddison Project, Cliopatria and the Correlates of War Project, and from yearbooks, statistical reports and research books. The rulebook's "Data Notes" explain how the numbers were made and name the main sources. The full list of references, per-file flag authors and licenses, and the Wikipedia articles used are on the credits page.
Some flag images on the cards are works by Wikimedia Commons contributors, used under CC BY-SA. Some export/import data include TOFLIT18 data (ODbL).
How to buy
Events
We plan to sell Flag Museum at Game Market Spring 2027 (Japan).
Online
Coming soon