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Well executed! Just as a suggestion, incorrect answers could be displayed more prominently so one has more visual feedback about what to learn.

Does not look like a beginner's project to me, congrats again!

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Agreed. When I first did it I didn't realize the answer was given after I pressed a choice. I thought it would give me a summary after so many guesses, like a quiz.

Also agreed that it looks much better than a beginner's project!

It's a wording problem, quick fix. Instead of:

You answered (nation) flag incorrectly!

Have it be like:

You guessed (nation), but the correct answer was (nation)!

Absolutely it looks great.

Second this. When I first noticed this text at the bottom, I assumed a bug knowing that the button I just pressed was not what text was displayed. It took a second to realize that it was telling me the correct flag, not the button pressed.

I was expecting the button highlight to be red on an incorrect guess.

does not resize so depending on resolution I had to read here to understand there was informaiton below the questions - resolution 1600x900

Hope this helps :)

For learning, it would also help to show the flag + correct nation name next to each other; maybe a list of past flags and their correct answers at the side or bottom?

Yup, to add to the other comments here:

"You answered [right answer] incorrectly!" is confusing, it should be "Sorry! The right answer was [right answer]!"

Looks great though, nice work!

If you could also show the flag in the message, so that I can associate them again, that would really improve retention!

Great ideas here! Thanks for the feedback.

Yes this is definitely very useful and essential for "learners" -- to see the correct association visually

I'm on a Macbook/Firefox with my resolution scaled up a bit and I didn't realize the answers were being displayed at all until I zoomed the page to 80%. Scrolling does not work. I did about 20 of them wondering when a results page would appear. Very fun and addicting project.

Agreed, this looks really great! I second that being able to see the flag and the correct answer more prominently after an incorrect guess would help! Super well done.

Many seem to agree that the correct/incorrect answers could be clearer. Will look into this. Thanks for the feedback and kind words!

Might make sense to show incorrect answers, flag and country name persistently somewhere on the side of the screen. Then you can also lose if you get too many to show on screen.

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