How do XP, ranks, bingo balls and prizes work in After Bingo?
Every round you play to its end pays two things. XP lifts your level and your rank, from Whippersnapper at the start to Centenarian at 55,000 XP. Bingo balls are the currency: you spend them at the Prize table on knives, outfits and dash trails for your man. Each new rank from Early Bird up gives a prize of its own, and the golden knife waits at 1,000 kills.
What a round pays in XP
A round pays 20 XP for playing it to the end, 10 XP a kill, 50 XP for the win (a shared first place counts) and 25 XP an award. Then come the named bonuses: First of the day, Daily win, Win streak, Flawless, Line or Full house for kills with many weapons, New ground for your first round on a map, and Company for every human you play with. Against bots the total is multiplied by the difficulty, by 0.75 on Easy up to 1.5 on Very hard; online it is the plain amount.
| What | XP |
|---|---|
| Playing a round to its end | 20 XP |
| A kill | 10 XP |
| The win (a shared first place counts) | 50 XP |
| An award | 25 XP |
| First of the day: the day's first round | 40 XP |
| Daily win: the day's first win | 60 XP |
| Win streak: for each win in the run before this one | 15 XP, at most 60 |
| Flawless: 3 kills or more and no death | 50 XP |
| Line: kills with 4 different weapons | 30 XP |
| Full house: kills with all 8 weapons, in place of the line | 150 XP |
| New ground: your first round on a map | 50 XP |
| Company: each other human in the round | 20 XP, at most 60 |
| The whole, against bots | Easy x0.75, Normal x1, Hard x1.25, Very hard x1.5; online x1 |
During a round, every kill floats its XP over the kills counter, and the pause menu says what the round has paid so far. The bonuses and the multiplier are added at the end, on the scoreboard's first card.
The ten ranks
The ranks are the names of a life at the club, from Whippersnapper to Centenarian. Your XP never goes down, so a rank once reached is yours. Crossing one puts its name on the scoreboard in gold and plays a sting.
| Rank | From | Levels | XP a level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whippersnapper | 0 XP | 1 to 4 | 100 |
| Early Bird | 400 XP | 5 to 8 | 200 |
| Bingo Regular | 1,200 XP | 9 to 12 | 300 |
| Bowls Champ | 2,400 XP | 13 to 16 | 650 |
| Allotment Boss | 5,000 XP | 17 to 20 | 750 |
| Silver Fox | 8,000 XP | 21 to 25 | 1,000 |
| Old Hand | 13,000 XP | 26 to 30 | 1,400 |
| Grand Elder | 20,000 XP | 31 to 36 | 2,000 |
| Living Legend | 32,000 XP | 37 to 46 | 2,300 |
| Centenarian | 55,000 XP | 47 and on | 2,500 |
Levels
Each rank's band of XP is cut into equal levels, short at the start and longer further up, so every rank begins on a new level. That makes 46 levels before Centenarian; after it, a new level comes every 2,500 XP, with no top. Your level shows on the title screen, in a gold disc before every name on the scoreboard and beside every name in the online lobby. The bots wear a level too, drawn from their difficulty's range; theirs is for show.
Bingo balls
Bingo balls are earned beside the XP, from the same rounds: 10 for the round, 3 a kill, 10 an award, and a bonus for your place, 40 for first and less down to sixth. Damage dealt, a good hit rate with a gun, a long run of kills, three kills or more without dying, and the day's first round and first win all add some. Against bots they take the same multiplier as the XP. You cannot buy balls; you can only play for them.
| What | Bingo balls |
|---|---|
| Playing a round to its end | 10 |
| A kill | 3 |
| An award | 10 |
| Your place: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th to 6th | 40, 25, 15, 8 |
| Damage dealt | 1 for every 50 |
| Sharpshooter: half your gun shots or more hit, out of 10 or more | 10 |
| Best run: each kill of your longest run past the third | 5 |
| Flawless: 3 kills or more and no death | 15 |
| First of the day | 15 |
| Daily win | 20 |
| The whole, against bots | Times the difficulty, as the XP |
Prizes
The Prize table holds nineteen prizes in four slots: knives, outfits, hats and trails. Of those, nine are for sale in bingo balls, and nine come with the ranks, one for each rank from Early Bird up, given by the round that takes you over the line. The golden knife is for 1,000 kills. A knife changes the blade you hold, an outfit your clothes, a hat your head and a trail the streak your dash leaves behind; none of them changes the damage, the reach or the speed.
| Prize | Slot | How you get it |
|---|---|---|
| Butter knife | Knife | 150 bingo balls |
| Carving knife | Knife | 200 bingo balls |
| Cleaver | Knife | 250 bingo balls |
| Cake server | Knife | Reaching Bingo Regular |
| Letter opener | Knife | Reaching Old Hand |
| Golden knife | Knife | 1,000 kills |
| Cardigan | Outfit | 400 bingo balls |
| Dressing gown | Outfit | 500 bingo balls |
| Gold jacket | Outfit | Reaching Living Legend |
| Sun visor | Hat | Reaching Early Bird |
| Bowls cap | Hat | Reaching Bowls Champ |
| Straw hat | Hat | Reaching Allotment Boss |
| Silver fedora | Hat | Reaching Silver Fox |
| Crown | Hat | Reaching Grand Elder |
| Birthday crown | Hat | Reaching Centenarian |
| Gold trail | Trail | 100 bingo balls |
| Your colour | Trail | 150 bingo balls |
| Fire trail | Trail | 150 bingo balls |
| Rainbow trail | Trail | 250 bingo balls |
Press a prize you own to wear it; press one you can afford and the table asks once before it spends the balls. Every knife and every outfit fits both men you play. What you wear goes online with you, so the others see it too. Bots wear nothing.
The five awards
At the end of each round the scoreboard hands out five awards, and each one you win pays XP and bingo balls:
| Award | Who wins it |
|---|---|
 Top Dog | The most kills in the round, at least 1 |
 On a Roll | The longest run of kills without dying, at least 3 |
 Dead Eye | The best share of gun shots that hit, from 5 shots and a hit |
 First Blood | The first kill of the round |
 Punching Bag | The most deaths, at least 3 |
Where to see it all
- The Profile, the card at the top right of the title screen: your level and rank, the bar to the next level, your bingo balls, your man in what he wears, and the doors to the Prize table and the Stats panel.
- The Stats panel: rounds, wins, kills, deaths, damage dealt and taken, your hit rate, your best round, the kills with each weapon, the awards you won and your last ten rounds.
- The title screen: your level, rank and XP on the line under the logo, and your bingo balls in the counter at the top right, which opens the Prize table.
All of it is saved in the browser you play in, on that device; there is no account. Another browser or another device starts at Whippersnapper, and clearing the site's data clears your progress too. Rounds against the bots and with friends both count. The FAQ has more on saving, and how to play on the round itself. Then go and earn some.