Methods to get extra Hourglasses in Pokémon TCG Pocket

Hourglasses are particular objects in Pokémon TCG Pocket that help you open packs and roll a marvel decide sooner. Whereas often you possibly can solely open a pack each 12 hours, you need to use a Pack Hourglass to cut back this timer by one hour. It’s also possible to use Surprise Hourglasses to cut back the marvel decide timer by one hour every.

There are fairly just a few methods to get your fingers on Pack Hourglasses and Surprise Hourglasses, so that you’ll need to be sure that to play each facet of the sport to earn them. It’s potential that future options and limited-time occasions might also give out hourglasses, however these are what’s out there at launch.

Beneath, we record all of the strategies we all know of to get Pack and Surprise Hourglasses in Pokémon TCG Pocket and clarify how you can use hourglasses.

Methods to use hourglasses in Pokémon TCG Pocket

To make use of your Pack Hourglasses, choose the pack you need to open and simply choose the “open a pack” or “open 10 packs” button (relying on what number of hourglasses you’ve gotten and need to spend). It will immediate you to spend your hourglasses to open the pack, offered you’ve gotten any in reserve.

For Surprise Hourglasses, you’ll have to do the identical, just for marvel picks. Choose a pack you need to marvel decide from, and observe the prompts to refill the required quantity of marvel stamina. The sport will routinely set the correct quantity of Surprise Hourglasses to make use of to start out your decide.

You’ll get a 4 Pack Hourglasses out of your day by day missions. The missions themselves aren’t too tough and also you solely have to finish three of the 5 introduced missions to get your day by day dose of hourglasses. To finish these, you’ll have to do three of the next:

Full extra missions

Along with day by day duties, you’ll have newbie missions to finish that reward you with a whopping 120 Pack Hourglasses, sufficient to open 10 packs without delay. The missions are as follows:

After your filter out the newbie missions, you’ll get some superior missions, which additionally reward you with a further 120 Pack Hourglasses. In contrast to the newbie missions, you received’t get rewards for finishing the person missions, however reasonably a lump sum of hourglasses from finishing 9 of them:

Notice that there are 12 missions to finish, that means you don’t must do all of them to get that large reward.

These missions comprise of stuff you’ll do as you play the sport naturally, so that you don’t must go actually far out of your option to clear them.

Clear the battle information and solo card battles

You’ll get a tiny handful of Pack Hourglasses in the event you full the tutorial for battles after which the solo card battles that come after. Every of the seven tutorials offers you two Pack Hourglasses for a complete of 12.

There are seven solo battles per issue and every issue rewards totally different numbers of Pack Hourglasses (the upper the problem, the extra you get). The one exception is for the knowledgeable issue, the place there are solely six battles. The rewards are as follows:

That mentioned, you received’t be capable to clear these all straight away. Whereas we have been capable of clear out the newbie degree battles fairly shortly with early playing cards, the later units require extra technique and extra cohesive decks (reasonably than simply slapping collectively no matter you bought out of your first few packs).

Purchase them with store tickets

You should buy every kind of hourglass from the store for 2 store tickets every. You will get store tickets from different Gamers supplying you with thanks, thumb-up-ing your assortment, and finishing solo battles. Every solo battle additionally has particular challenges that offers you extra store tickets, so be sure that to concentrate to what it’s essential do earlier than you bounce into battle.

Degree up by battling and amassing

You’ll get a handful of hourglasses each time you degree up, which isn’t tremendous totally different from the strategies above, since you must battle and open packs to get XP. That being mentioned, in the event you seen that some hourglasses confirmed up in your stock and also you don’t know the place they got here from, it’s most likely from leveling.

Accumulate playing cards from Themed Collections

Accumulating sure playing cards will full units that can typically reward hourglasses. You’ll be able to see these by opening your missions menu and choosing the “themed collections” button within the backside proper nook. A few of the missions are listed, however just a few of them are hidden and received’t present up till you full them. For reference, Serebii.web has a helpful record of all of the Themed Collections (even the hidden ones).

For a couple of dollars: Get them from premium missions

For those who wished to pay for the $9.99 Premium month-to-month subscription, you possibly can rise up to 11 Pack Hourglasses and eight Surprise Hourglasses from finishing the premium missions. The missions seem to reset month-to-month (with the following month being December, because the sport simply got here out on Oct. 30 and supplying you with 48 hours to finish a month-long mission set appears merciless).