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  • Correcting your previously-entered time by selecting the hour and tapping a different number doesn’t work. It initially shows the hour selected but then overwrites the right-most component (eg seconds)
    by pimlottc
  • Could this be extended to lean into teaching quantum physics ?

    Include seconds/ sub seconds hand in the watch, and people will realize the watch face time + time it takes to read will never equal the watch face time.

    You can know the exact time, by looking at the analog watch face, or you can measure it (convert it) but it will not be the same anymore.

    by great_psy
  • This was fun! Good call on directing to the free play before jumping into the daily challenge. I was disappointed when I realized there was no leader board for the daily challenge.
    by cjfeda
  • For some reason this brings back memories of looking for clocks or strangers with a watch while walking around a department store or mall

    I mustve forgotten how common 'public' clocks used to be. Now... not even the clock on my local town hall is correct

    by fusslo
  • Ha! Got a good laugh.

    Two suggestions:

    - Let me enter the time with my keyboard - Make your input numpad match a PC keyboard's numpad, not a phone's

    by stets
  • It seems to not support 24h? When I see e.g. 17:35 I want to type 17:35 instead of 5:35. Probably because I very seldomly see 5:35 in real life! Interesting observation by itself, but slightly annoying that I have to convert to 12h for this game.
    by cl3misch
  • This could be good for kids to learn how to read analog clocks. I remember this being something we did in school as kids... racing to read a clock faster than the other kid, to move on to the next section of an obstacle course. From what I understand that is becoming a lost skill.
    by al_borland
  • This fun game just made me realize that actually using analog watch does not require converting the time to HH:MM.

    I've been using analog watch for years, my Apple Watch face is set to analog and, apparently, I read the time as "it's almost 11", but never as "it's 10:58".

    by ventana

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