# Need some help with a whack-a-mole

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/need-some-help-with-a-whack-a-mole/48017>\
**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Tags:** homework\
**Created:** [March 3, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/need-some-help-with-a-whack-a-mole/48017 "2026-03-03T14:12:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 3, 2026, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/need-some-help-with-a-whack-a-mole/48017/2 "2026-03-03T14:52:40Z")

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Hi @Lumine,

Welcome to the forum !

People here won’t give you the full code for your game timer but instead try to help you learn how to do it, I already posted an answer about a similar problem:

> [@Brick Game Timer Question](https://discourse.processing.org/t/brick-game-timer-question/38605/2):
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> Hi @newprogrammer12, To understand better how it works, maybe start with a simpler example (without Java classes). Displaying a timer implies using time. In Processing we can get the current time since the beginning of the program in milliseconds with the millis() function. Let’s look at the following program: // Starts at the beginning of the program int timerStart = 0; int duration = 1000; void draw() { // Time spent since the beginning of the timer int timeSinceStart = millis() - tim…

Hope this will help you ! 😇

Try to run the code yourself, try to modify it and otherwise ask questions here.

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