German Time Revised - Game Information

:-D Funny!

Repetition: How about good ole "huh"? In this area please has a lot of meanings. "I beg your pardon!" carries more of a connotation of letting someone know that you are a bit miffed by their comment. "Pardon, pardon me?" is softer sounding.

I think you can generalise that numbers greater than twelve (and zero) are used either in formal speech or to tell the exact time. In common speech, when asked for the time on the street for example, you usually round off the minutes to 5 nach, 10 nach, Viertel nach, 20 nach, 5 vor halb, halb, 5 nach halb, 20 vor, Viertel vor, 10 vor or 5 vor.

If you're not in Cincinnati, what do you say if you want something repeated? I always held that please is correct in that case, the only other expression I know is "I beg your pardon", but that's British English, isn't it. And somewhat long.

I lived in Austria for three years and Grüß Gott was the greeting anywhere and everywhere and Grüß dich was the personal greeting in the house where I lived and at the university. Guten Tag or Guten Morgen was a rarity except when I'd teach on Thursdays in Bavaria. The house that I lived in was representative of fifty countries of the world and all areas of Germany and Austria. Everyone spoke German as the common dominant language or English to get some practice for their second language. All types of dialects and expressions were used. The word literally translates as "greet God" which is the correct translation for it even though you are really telling someone "hello". Mind you, in today's world God has taken a back seat so I would assume this greeting would be quite foreign to people who spent a half century in the eastern bloc where God was suppressed. The last section called Tempus Fugit which is latin for "time flies" and which is often printed on clocks is there for the purpose of AM and PM (before noon and after noon). Since Europeans use the 24 hour clock six hands were added to help with these variations and keep them in one game and not two. In the USA very few people use the 24 hour clock to tell time except the military. Here we use an expression of three fifteen (just like your dreiviertel). In Cincinnati we also say, "please" when we wish to have something repeated. Since we were settled by Germans in large numbers when they came to Cincinnati, you can see where "please" is a carry over from "bitte". In German the use of the "halb" refers to the next hour whereas in English the "half" is always half past the preceeding hour. Everyone ready for, "Quelle heure est-il?" "Il est dix heures et demie." Is it any wonder that planes are never on time!

Very good work! The integration of artwork and text works successful.

Muta, the phrases drei viertel (two words) sieben and viertel fünf are correct but used only in some regions of Germany. Even though they are correct, most Germans would perceive them as terrible dialect.

More popular, just as correct, understood everywhere and taught in school are Viertel vor acht, Viertel nach zehn and halb eins (12:30).

I don't get this game.
If it is about learning to tell the time in different ways in German, then there are missing some expressions (as an example "dreiviertel sieben" or "viertel fünf", like they use to say in Eastern Germany and parts of the South). And why are the clocks mixed up with the sencences? I see that they always match, but I still find it confusing. The last clock is especially strange - what is "a.m. side" and "p.m. side"? And you can't translate "Grüß Gott" with "greed god".
I do appreciate that you're trying to explain a tiny bit of the German culture with this game. But I guess it still needs some improvement. (And I apologize for sounding so critical - good try, still!)

Thanks to Francis's timely help correcting and bringing this vocabulary into modern times. The games are designed to make one think in German concepts rather than translation mode.