Telling Time Word Search
This telling time puzzle holds 40 words for reading a clock: the hour hand and the minute hand, half past, quarter past and quarter to, analog and digital, noon and midnight, and the sixty minutes in every hour.
The numbers on a clock are older than clocks. The Egyptians split daylight into 12 hours, and the Babylonians, who counted in sixties, are the reason an hour has 60 minutes and a minute 60 seconds. Clock hands turn clockwise because the shadow on a sundial in the northern half of the world moves the same way, from left to right across the dial, and the first mechanical clocks copied it.
Early tower clocks had only an hour hand, because they could drift by many minutes a day. In 1656 the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens built the first pendulum clock, accurate to about a minute a day, and after that a minute hand was worth adding. The letters a.m. and p.m. come from the Latin for before midday and after midday.
Free Telling Time Word Search Online Game
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Telling Time Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Telling Time word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
Print or Download pdfMedium
12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
Print or Download pdfEasy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Telling Time has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Alarm
- Analog
- Bedtime
- Chime
- Clock
- Cuckoo
- Dawn
- Digital
- Dusk
- Elapsed
- Evening
- Face
- Gears
- Half Past
- Hour Hand
- Hourglass
- Hours
- Lunchtime
- Midnight
- Minute Hand
- Minutes
- Morning
- Noon
- Numeral
- Pendulum
- Quarter Past
- Quarter To
- Roman
- Seconds
- Seven
- Sixty
- Sundial
- Thirty
- Three
- Tick
- Time Zone
- Timer
- Tock
- Twelve
- Watch