The Time Machine is the twelfth building in Cookie Clicker. It initially costs 14 trillion cookies. Its base Cps is 65 million per second.
Achievements
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Time warp | Have 1 time machine. | 61 |
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Alternate timeline | Have 50 time machines. | 62 |
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Rewriting history | Have 100 time machines. | 63 |
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Time duke | Have 150 time machines. | 121 |
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Forever and ever | Have 200 time machines. | 156 |
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Heat death | Have 250 time machines. | 219 |
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cookie clicker forever and forever a hundred years cookie clicker, all day long forever, forever a hundred times, over and over cookie clicker adventures dot com | Have 300 time machines. | 259 |
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Way back then | Have 350 time machines. | 290 |
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Invited to yesterday's party | Have 400 time machines. | 350 |
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Groundhog day | Have 450 time machines. | 363 |
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The years start coming | Have 500 time machines. | 409 |
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Caveman to cosmos | Have 550 time machines. | 485 |
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Back already? | Have 600 time machines. | 503 |
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But the future refused to change | Have 650 time machines. | 566 |
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I only meant to stay a while | Have 700 time machines. | 628 |
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Spacetime jigamaroo | Make 100 sextillion cookies just from time machines. | 142 |
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Be kind, rewind | Make 1 nonillion cookies just from time machines. | 200 |
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Déjà vu | Make 10 undecillion cookies just from time machines. | 304 |
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The long now | Reach level 10 time machines. | 318 |
Upgrades
| Icon | Name | Unlock condition | Base price | Description | ID |
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Flux capacitors | Own 1 time machine |  140 trillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "Bake to the future." |
28 |
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Time paradox resolver | Own 5 time machines | 700 trillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "No more fooling around with your own grandmother!" |
29 |
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Quantum conundrum | Own 25 time machines | 7 quadrillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "There is only one constant, and that is universal uncertainty. Or is it?" |
30 |
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Causality enforcer | Own 50 time machines | 700 quadrillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "What happened, happened." |
51 |
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Yestermorrow comparators | Own 100 time machines | 70 quintillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "Fortnights into milleniums." |
117 |
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Far future enactment | Own 150 time machines | 7 sextillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "The far future enactment authorizes you to delve deep into the future - where civilization has fallen and risen again, and cookies are plentiful." |
199 |
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Great loop hypothesis | Own 200 time machines | 7 septillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "What if our universe is just one instance of an infinite cycle? What if, before and after it, stretched infinite amounts of the same universe, themselves containing infinite amounts of cookies?" |
304 |
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Cookietopian moments of maybe | Own 250 time machines | 7 octillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "Reminiscing how things could have been, should have been, will have been." |
317 |
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Second seconds | Own 300 time machines | 7 nonillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "That's twice as many seconds in the same amount of time! What a deal! Also, what in god's name!" |
438 |
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Additional clock hands | Own 350 time machines | 7 decillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "It seemed like a silly idea at first, but it turns out these have the strange ability to twist time in interesting new ways." |
490 |
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Nostalgia | Own 400 time machines | 70 undecillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "Your time machine technicians insist that this is some advanced new time travel tech, and not just an existing emotion universal to mankind. Either way, you have to admit that selling people the same old cookies just because it reminds them of the good old times is an interesting prospect." |
516 |
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Split seconds | Own 450 time machines | 700 duodecillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "Time is infinite, yes... But what if, nestled within each second, were even more infinities? Every moment an eternity! Think of how many scheduling troubles this solves!" |
672 |
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Patience abolished | Own 500 time machines | 7 quattuordecillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "You wait for no one." |
710 |
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Timeproof upholstery | Own 550 time machines | 70 quindecillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "Sometimes your time agents overshoot and end up having to fast-forward through the universe's entire history until they loop back to present time. It still takes a while, so they might as well travel in comfort and enjoy the show while they do." |
753 |
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Rectifying a mistake | Own 600 time machines | 700 sexdecillion
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Time machines are twice as efficient. "This whole time-travelling business has been a terrible mess and, frankly, far more trouble than was worth. It's decided: you'll hop in one of your time machines one last time, turn back the clock, knock on the door of your younger self and make a stern but convincing case against starting this entire nonsense in the first place. Oh hey, is someone at the door?" |
850 |
Grandma Form
Purchasing 15 Time Machines allows for the purchasing of a Grandma upgrade and a new Grandma type.
| Icon | Name | Quantity Needed | Price (cookies) | Description | ID # |
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| File:GrandmaAchieveNew.png | Grandmas' grandmas | 15 time machines and 1 grandma | 700 trillion | Grandmas are twice as efficient. Time machines gain +1% CpS per 10 grandmas. "A nice grandma's nice grandma to bake double the cookies." |
63 |
Grandmas' Grandma
Grandma's Grandma
In Cookie Clicker Classic
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| Two images from the Classic version, left: icon shown in the store, right: appearance in the middle field | |
The Time machine was introduced in the 0.125 update. It costs 123,456,789 cookies, and is the most expensive of all the items, at their base levels. It produces 123,456 cookies per 5 seconds.
Adding 24,691.2 CpS (cookies per second), it is approximately 18.5203 times quicker than the Portal. It also causes some grandmas to wear a pink jumpsuit with a visor, a hover board, and a green rolling pin, leading to the assumption that these grandmas came from the future.
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| Images from current version, left for menu, right for in-game appearance | |
Trivia
- You need at least 15 Time Machines to purchase the "Grandmas' Grandmas" upgrade.
- The Time Machine is based in Marie-Antoniette Watch
- A time machine is a fictional machine used in numerous works of Science Fiction; the revamped in-field icon loosely resembles the clockpunk designs used in films based on the novel The Time Machine.
- Until v2, when the prices and yields were readjusted to account for the new buildings, all of the base costs and yields associated with the Time Machine were made up of sequential numbers, counting forwards from 1 to 9, backwards from 9 to 1 or even from 9 down to 4 then up to 9 again.
- The "Flux Capacitor" upgrade, as well as its flavor text ("Bake to the future"), are references to the 80's classic film "Back to the Future."
- The "Quantum Conundrum" upgrade and its flavor text are a reference to the 2012 video game of the same name.
- The flavor text on the "Time Paradox Resolver" upgrade ("No more fooling around with your own grandmother") may be a reference to the show Futurama episode 51 ("Roswell that Ends Well") or to the famous grandfather paradox.
- The achievement "cookie clicker forever and forever a hundred years cookie clicker, all day long forever, forever a hundred times, over and over cookie clicker adventures dot com" is a reference to popular cartoon "Rick and Morty"
- The Achivement "Heat Death" is a reference to a theory on how the universe might end. "Heat death"
is what the state of the universe is when the last star collapses and all we have are black holes and darkness. - The Achivement "Groundhog Day" is a refrence to the 1993 movie of the same name.
