Stage 6 Flag List
Stage 6 of Do Not Look at the Sun is solved by posting Japan to the bulletin board and letting its flag stand in for the sun — but Japan isn't the only country whose flag works. Players independently testing other country names in the same field found a whole list of flags that trigger the same reaction, and the developer acknowledged the discovery directly in the comments on the game's page.
Why This Works at All
The bulletin board doesn't know what a sun looks like — it only reacts to whatever image gets posted into that field. Japan's flag works because its red disc reads as a sun. Once players realized that, the obvious next question was which other flags carry a similar sun-or-circle motif, and the answer turned out to be a longer list than anyone expected.
Flags Players Have Confirmed Work
| Country | Sun-like element |
|---|---|
| Japan | Red disc, center of the flag |
| Bangladesh | Red disc, off-center |
| Taiwan | White sun emblem on a blue canton |
| Kazakhstan | Golden sun over a steppe eagle |
| Namibia | Golden sun in the upper hoist |
| Argentina | Sun of May, a golden sun face |
| Uruguay | Sun of May in the canton |
| Nepal | Sun emblem in one of its two pennants |
| North Macedonia | Golden sun with radiating rays |
| Kiribati | Rising sun over a frigatebird |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Rising sun band |
| Costa Rica | Sun rising between volcanoes on the coat of arms |
| Ecuador | Sun on the national coat of arms |
| Philippines | Golden sun with eight rays |
| Rwanda | Golden sun in the upper corner |
| Malawi | Rising red sun over black, red and green bands |
| Kyrgyzstan | Golden sun with forty rays |
Flags That Look Like a Loophole But Aren't
Palau's flag is the flag players expected to work and found didn't — its pale disc is widely mistaken for a sun, but it represents the moon, not the sun, and the game treats it accordingly. It's the clearest example of the stage actually checking for a sun specifically rather than "any circle on a flag."
An Edge Case Worth Knowing
The Marshall Islands' flag has a white sunburst-style disc as well, and at least one player has flagged it as a possible extra route into the stage — though this one is less firmly confirmed than the list above, since its rays are usually read as representing the islands' position relative to the equator rather than the sun itself. Try it if you're curious, but Japan and the countries in the table are the reliable, tested route.
If a flag isn't in the list above and isn't obviously sun-themed, it's very likely a dead end — Stage 6 only cares whether what you post carries a genuine sun motif, and the Palau case shows it isn't fooled by a plain circle alone.