Time Zones
Roll the split-flap clocks of an airport world-clock wall: what time is it in Tokyo when it is 3 PM in Paris, when does your flight land, and when can three cities meet? Half-hour zones, a new day and the real Date Line show up as you go.
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Controls
TapKeyboard←→↑↓- Tap the top or bottom of a clock wheel to roll it, or slide the meeting bar, then tap CHECK.
- Keys: arrows, Enter.
About the game
Time Zones is a geography and time puzzle set in an airport lounge. A framed world map hangs over the counter, and each city's little resident shows you its clock. One city tells you the time, and you roll the split-flap wheels of another city to the same moment. The map's day and night shading follows along, and anyone for whom it is night is asleep in a nightcap.
The real map quirks arrive one by one: meetings where you slide a bar until every city is at work, half-hour zones like Delhi and Adelaide, the day changing at midnight, flights that land before they take off, the jagged International Date Line that puts Samoa a whole day ahead of its neighbour, and quarter-hour zones in Nepal and the Chatham Islands. Twenty-four levels, three hearts each, standard time everywhere.
Free to play in your browser. No download, no sign-up. Best on a computer, or a phone held sideways. Your progress is saved on this device.
