timer...for countdown

[Java]

hi, i have searched online and can't seem to find something I understand for a timer. I have a boggle game that needs to have a 3 minute counter so I figured I'd have a countdown from 3 minutes...but the only thing I've found in other peoples codes and the api is the Timer class but I think I...

[Borman32]

Many games now have a countdown timer. For the player, this is an incentive to play better.