An occasional treat as you explore!
The hourglass and its associated “Time Well Spent” quests for the Explorer and Reporter classes are meant to be a fun “secondary quest/reward” as you explore news, game and profile pages on the site. They appear at random times and won’t necessarily show up all the time.
Questing suggestion: If you make the “Time Well Spent” quests your primary focus, they probably won’t be very fun, so we would encourage you to simply keep an eye out for them. Think Alice in Wonderland, where occasionally she’ll discover a potion or treat here and there 
Where is the hourglass?
After you’ve been browsing a news, game or profile page for awhile an hourglass may appear. When it does, it will appear in the lower-right corner of your browser. Don’t wait too long to click on it because it disappears after 10 seconds.
Each time you click on an hourglass you will get a little XP reward. Even after you’ve completed the quests, the hourglasses will still appear, giving you XP when you click on them.
Below are descriptions of the Time Well Spent quests.
Time Well Spent – Games
Explorer Quest
Click on the hourglass 100 times while browsing game pages
Time Well Spent – Profiles
Explorer Quest
Click on the hourglass 100 times while browsing profile pages
Time Well Spent – News
Reporter Quest
Click on the hourglass 100 times while browsing news pages
At last we get some info on this quest. I saw one once when I first logged on to boardgaming.com but haven’t seen them since and I was wondering how it worked. Thanks for the info, guys.
thumbs up for getting a “time well spent” point reading about “time well spent” points.
@Legendary ST
I love it!
Thumbs up!
Curse my speed reading and ADD! I sometimes feel like I’m waiting to click on something until the hourglass shows up, and then racing around to do something else. Which is why I don’t have enough of these yet!
I’d be calmer, but these are GAMES! If I can’t be way too excited about games, then what can I be excited about?
The best is when I’m watching a video and one comes up in the background… disappearing before I can shut the video down and click… click… click.
I’m waiting right now to get one…
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Ah! Got you, you little HG!
This one was confusing for me too.. thanks for the clarification.. now to wait for my hour glass for this page… :]
Problem is that it usually takes about half that time to read news and profiles….timing on this needs to be cut just about in half. Case in point, read the article, read the reviews, posted….still no hourglass. Far to long unless you are Slingblade or something.
I like them french fried potaters,… but I still have to wait a long time for the hourglass after I’m done reading.
I loved these little Hourglasses and am still working to achieve them daily!
135 seconds (2.25 minutes) on average is too long!