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It's been a fun little game I play to make sure I don't embarrass myself when somebody asks me what time it is, since I wear a lot of watches. I'd love to add…",{"id":55,"by":10,"text":56},"48861010","> or look at your phone or whatever > have a means to get it ... in tv broadcasting etc I think you're missing the point of wearing an analog watch, which is fine, but still…",{"value":58,"source":59,"evidence":60},"People who wear analog watches or want to learn to read analog clocks","inferred",[61,62],{"id":55,"by":10,"text":56},{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"48847601","craftkiller","> kids to learn how to read analog clocks [...] From what I understand that is becoming a lost skill. I don't think kids need to learn to read analog clocks anymore, in the same…",{"value":67,"source":49,"evidence":68},"Maker wanted to improve their own skill at reading an analog watch when asked the time",[69,70],{"id":55,"by":10,"text":56},{"id":52,"by":10,"text":53},[],"unknown",{"praise":74,"objections":106,"requests":142,"questions":171,"alternatives":179},[75,91,99],{"value":76,"source":77,"evidence":78},"Fun and enjoyable game","commenter",[79,83,87],{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"48847198","cjfeda","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.",{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"48847462","piosin","love it",{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"48856536","sensorlinqapps","Fun game. I would suggest a competative mode with more clocks. Gets people to actively play against one another",{"value":92,"source":77,"evidence":93},"Good daily challenge and practice rounds",[94,95],{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"48849063","meshweaver","Fun game! Definitely needed the practice rounds. Would love to see a comparison of some sort of how well everyone else did. analog.watch Daily Challenge 2026-07-09 Score: 22,020…",{"value":100,"source":77,"evidence":101},"Fun way to test how well you read analog faces",[102],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"48850775","danteocualesjr","you’ve basically turned ‘can you read an analog face?’ into a little daily ego check. nice.",[107,114,121,128,135],{"value":108,"source":77,"evidence":109},"Does not support 24-hour time entry",[110],{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"48847966","cl3misch","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…",{"value":115,"source":77,"evidence":116},"Off-by-one-minute answers are judged wrong, too strict",[117],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"48847030","austinthetaco","my only issue is that it cares if you are off by 1 minute, meanwhile in the real world a lot of analog clocks have continuously moving minutes and a lot of others have ticking…",{"value":122,"source":77,"evidence":123},"Daily challenge marked a correct answer as close",[124],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"48847561","glitchc","The daily challenge doesn't seem to work for me. 58 seconds for the second clock is correct yet it said I was just close.",{"value":129,"source":77,"evidence":130},"Correcting an entered time overwrites the seconds",[131],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"48850074","pimlottc","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…",{"value":136,"source":77,"evidence":137},"Missing keyboard input and numpad support",[138],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"48852361","stets","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",[143,147,155,160,167],{"value":144,"source":77,"evidence":145},"Keyboard entry of time",[146],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},{"value":148,"source":77,"evidence":149},"24-hour time support",[150,151],{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"48849090","yegle","Hmm, 12AM\u002FPM watch faces don't register 0 as the hour.",{"value":156,"source":77,"evidence":157},"Global leaderboard or score comparison",[158,159],{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},{"value":161,"source":77,"evidence":162},"Show analog hand positions in results",[163],{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"48846864","dwa3592","would be nice if the results also showed the analog watch positions.",{"value":168,"source":77,"evidence":169},"Competitive mode with more clocks",[170],{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},[172],{"value":173,"source":77,"evidence":174},"Could seconds or sub-second hands be added to teach the idea of measurement",[175],{"id":176,"by":177,"text":178},"48847388","great_psy","Could this be extended to lean into teaching quantum physics ? 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