I remember playing that game too! Sadly it has probably died out now- thanks to technology.

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To reply to Saoirse - if that's what they have in the book, then all well and fine, but I'm talking about the clockface as it's shown on the cover - that's where I would put numbers in written form. The other mistake (in my humble opinion) is that very often the child has a round-shaped clockface in their hands and they have to try to turn the hands on it at the same time as holding it up - their fingers and the hands on the clock tend to get in the way of each other. It's much better to have a large rectangular shape in the middle of which you have your clockface - it makes it much easier for the child to handle and it also gives more scope of posting up more written information around the clockface. There's also another option with which I have a lot of success and that's a kind of jigsaw clock where each number is set in a different shape and has to be fitted into the correct place. I use thick card to make it (here it's called carton bois - 3mm thick) and you cover it with a transparent adhesive film to protect all the words and colours that you have stuck on it.
I just wanted to add that what is shown in the video has a French equivalent - Un, deux, trois Soleil - but it would be nice to know what that game would be known as in Irish.

Tháining m'iníon abhaile ón scoil lá amháin leis an gcluiche, 'Cén t-am é, a mhactíre?' agus 'am dinnéir' an catchword!

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Sorry Franc, it was over 40 years ago I don't remember the name.
I know we didn't use mactíre/wolf, I'm fairly sure I'd remember that.
That's great Saoirse. Looks like the game is still alive in schools, the teachers are keeping it going.

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Some versions of the game we played involved "Mr. Fox." "Mr. Fox," what time is it?

Redwolf

That's interesting.

As a kid, I always imagined Mr. Wolf was the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood, the one that ate the grandma.

I just realised that the game in the Orphanage might be a different one. Mr. Wolf had to stay facing forward and judge the distance to the victims by the sound of their question before deciding when to say dinner time and "attack".

There was a different game where the player who was "it" turned around after a count of three or a set phrase and everyone had to "freeze" in position - you tried to get as close as possible during the count but if "it" saw you moving after he or she turned around, you were either "it" or you were out, I can't remember which.

The Japanese have a similar game to this second one called "Daruma ga koronda" ("the daruma rolled" - a "daruma" is a round doll that always stands up - but wobbles as it does so) but I don't know if they have a time one like Mr. Wolf - or should that be Mrs. Redwolf?

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My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

That sounds more like the one I had. The child calling out was turned towards the wall, her back to the other children.

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