Clock Game: learn to tell the time

How to play Clock Game

1. Choose a game: Read the clock, Set the clock or What time later?, then a level.
2. Read it: look at the hands and tap the matching digital time.
3. Set it: drag the long minute hand around the clock, or use the buttons. The short hour hand moves slowly as the minutes go round, just like a real clock.
4. Later: the clock shows the start time. Work out the time after the minutes shown.
5. After every question you see the time written in words, such as “quarter past three”.

Tips and strategy

• The short fat hand is the hour hand and the long thin hand is the minute hand.
• When the minute hand is on 12 it is o’clock. On 6 it is half past. On 3 it is quarter past, and on 9 it is quarter to the next hour.
• Each number on the clock is 5 minutes: 1 is 5 minutes, 2 is 10 minutes, 3 is 15 minutes, and so on.
• After half past, we say “to” the next hour. 4:50 is ten minutes to five.