Glossary
An A–Z of 123 terms — bins, ore, bars, gates, the Hoard, prestige, heirlooms, achievements, natures, skins, Marquee, fusion, shiny, World Hop and more — each with its numbers and a link.
Every term you will meet in Ballin Tycoon, in one or two sentences each, with a link to the full article. Numbers here are generated from the game data, so they are always current.
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A
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Achievements achievement, achievement shop, achievement points, merits, merit board, merit shop, challenges | More | |
| Album (sets) sticker album, set | More | |
| Arcade (machine) pinball, arcade machine | More | |
| Arcade Level arcade lv | The level of the Arcade machine's bar — not your player level. Level 1 needs 760 points, level 10 5,764, level 100 91,531. Each level up to 500 carries one Marquee reward; the bubbles on the bar itself pay nothing now. | More |
| Armory (THE ARMORY) anvil, workshop | More | |
| Artifact relic, artifacts | A permanent hoard relic found in hoard chests: 25 families in 3 tiers (WORN, GILDED, DIVINE), levelled with shards. Not to be confused with heirlooms, which are bought with Prestige Points. | More |
| Ascension sky altar, starlight, gods, blessing, altar level | More | |
| Aurora Vault world 2, aurora | World 2 · Aurora — the icy second board with the Glacier Gate, breaches and aurora rifts. | More |
| AUTO / TAP auto-launch, autolaunch, auto drop | More |
B
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Bag inventory, items, pop-up bag | More | |
| Ball Factory factory | More | |
| Ball Grove | More | |
| Ballin’ Potion potion | More | |
| Balls ball, reserve, cap | More | |
| Bar bars, ingot | More | |
| Bingo | More | |
| Bins (buckets) bucket, pot, grey, bronze, silver, gold bin, emerald, ruby, diamond | The coloured pockets under the pegs. Seven tiers — Grey, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Emerald, Ruby, Diamond — each paying more coins and rarer drops than the last. | More |
| Bonus Map red ball bonus, blue ball bonus | The drop board behind the Red / Blue Ball Bonus: stop five dice for balls, then aim the drop into ×1–×20 bins. Dice runs are a daily allowance once gate 2 is broken. | More |
| Bonus Wheel wheel | More | |
| Boss Raid raid, dungeon, crypt, warden | More | |
| Bounties bounty, bounty points | More |
C
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Cake Party cakes | More | |
| Candy (Arcade points) points, candy | More | |
| Charm (Charm Octopus) octopus, charms | More | |
| Chest Rush silver bucket raid, raid | More | |
| Coin gain | A permanent +1% to every coin you earn from each Coin Gain row of the Marquee. The level bar's coin bubbles were retired. | More |
| Coins money | More | |
| Crafting smelting, craft | More |
D
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Quests quests, weekly chest | More | |
| Diamond bin jackpot bin | Diamond The rarest bin: a landing opens Jackpot Frenzy and hits the world lock ×20. | More |
| Discord | The community server (discord.gg/awMef4gXuY) and a way to play: the game runs as a Discord Activity and Discord is a sign-in method. | More |
| Dive (World 4) the deep, surface | World 4 · Maelstrom’s second board. The surface whirlpool swallows balls into your catch; DIVE drops them on a board whose bins pay balls. | More |
| Door (Arcade) candy card, door card | The door above the Arcade’s ★ bin. 65% of ★ landings go through it for a bonus card (1,000 / 2,000 / 4,000 × stake); the rest drop a MEGA BALL. | More |
E
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Elusive pets exclusive pets, activate | More | |
| Emerald / Ruby bins gem bins, purple, red | Emerald Ruby The two gem bins: they pay gems and gold balls, drop dice and chip the world lock. | More |
| Essence (Pet Essence) pet essence | More | |
| Event History | More | |
| Evolution evolve, evo, trial | More | |
| Expeditions mines, mineshafts, expedition | More |
F
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Flora world 3, garden | World 3 · Flora — the flower board: balls water pegs (sap), ripe flowers give pollen, and portals are pollen-only. | More |
| Fossils fossil pets, dig site, bone dust | Rare finds from expeditions. Strange slabs are dug out on a 9 × 6 dig grid; completed fossils (6 of them) become fossil pets, and crumbled pieces become bone dust for perks. | More |
| Founder rewards beta, founder | More | |
| Free Gift | More | |
| Friend code (ARC-…) support id, arc code | Your 8-character code, shown as ARC-XXXX-XXXX in SOCIAL. Friends add you with it, it doubles as your Support ID in Settings, and it is the code in your invite link. You can have up to 100 friends. | More |
| Fusion fuse, stars | More |
G
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Game completion completion, 100% | More | |
| Gate gates, hoard gate, gate ladder | More | |
| Gems | More | |
| Gemstones rough, cut, cutter | What expedition mines pay: ROUGH stones that the cutter turns into CUT stones, spent in each world's expedition shop. | More |
| Glacier Gate ice wall, breach | More | |
| Gold / rainbow sticker gold variant, rainbow variant, gold album, rainbow album | Rarer versions of a sticker with albums of their own. Their spares can be requested by friends, like a normal sticker's. | More |
| Gold balls golden balls | More | |
| Golden Hour | A 1 in 2,000 roll on every Flora launch banks a charge; tap the sun for 1m of ×3 sap. | More |
| Guild guilds, clan | More |
H
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Heirloom heirlooms, prestige upgrade | More | |
| Hiscores leaderboard, leaderboards, rankings, ranks | More | |
| Hoard (THE HOARD) hoard, chest hoard | More | |
| Hoard chest chests, banked chest | More | |
| Hoard Hunt | More | |
| Hoard Mimic mimic | More |
I
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Inferno world 5 | World 5 · Inferno — the lava board: pump PRESSURE to heat its bins up the tier ladder, while the lava melts balls and its HEAT burns pets. | More |
| Intro tasks welcome tasks, tasks, tutorial | More |
J
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Jackpot Frenzy jackpot, frenzy | More |
L
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Launch launch button | Tap LAUNCH (or use AUTO) to drop one ball for one ball from your reserve. Up to 100 balls can be on the board at once. | More |
| Limited pets limited, bundle pets, giveaway pet | More | |
| Loadouts pet loadout | More | |
| Lock (world lock) padlock, lock hp | More | |
| Lock damage (ball power) ball power, ball damage | More |
M
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Maelstrom world 4 | World 4 · Maelstrom — the whirlpool board with its SURFACE and DIVE halves and the tap-to-fire vortex launcher. | More |
| More | ||
| Marquee marquee gallery, milestone, marquee level | More | |
| MEGA BALL mega win | More | |
| MENU (hub) midway, menu menu, hub | More | |
| Mines | Fill the Arcade’s right portal ring (200 bumps) to play MINES: 25 tiles, 3 mines, cash out any time; a mine ends the round at the 50-ball floor, clearing every safe tile pays ×200. | More |
N
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Nature pet nature, natures | Every pet rolls one of 13 natures that raises one job stat by 15% and lowers another by 10%, across mining, smelting, chests, gates. It decides where a pet works best. | More |
O
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Offline earnings idle, away | While you are away balls keep regenerating (one every 30s up to your cap), the Ball Factory keeps building, the hoard keeps cracking chests and expeditions keep digging. The WELCOME BACK card sums it up when you return. | More |
| Ore bin ore, metal, tin, copper, silver, gold, verdite, crimsonite | More |
P
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Pet Cards cards | More | |
| Pet Crates pet crate, crate, pull, gacha | More | |
| Pet Items | More | |
| Pet Score | Rarity weight × stars × level × (shiny ×2) summed over every pet you own. Score tiers boost your rare-or-better odds in pet crates, up to ×2. | More |
| Pets pet, equip | More | |
| Player level level, xp, xp bar | The level on the green XP bar in the top bar, fed by ore. Capped at 10 + 5 per gate broken; opens upgrade rows and, at 10, prestige. It resets when you prestige — the Arcade level does not. | More |
| Pollen / sap | Flora’s flower economy: each ball touch waters a peg (sap); ripe flowers are picked for pollen, and a ball carrying 3+ pollen chips the lock ×2. | More |
| Portal portals, warp | More | |
| Portal Meter | Counts portals per world; at 200 it spins the Bonus Wheel. Opens at gate 2. | More |
| Prestige prestige points, pp | More | |
| Profile player profile, avatar, showcase | More |
R
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Red / Blue Ball Bonus dice, red dice, blue dice | More | |
| Referrals referral, invite friends, invite link | ballintycoon.com/i/<your code> from REFERRALS (hamburger menu). A brand-new friend counts once they make their first account and finish the intro: 100 balls each, and milestones at 1 / 3 / 5 / 10 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 65 / 80 / 100 friends. | More |
| Reinforced ball forge bear | More | |
| Renown (Marquee stars) stars, renown, marquee level | Your Marquee level — one star for every Arcade level you clear. Nothing else raises it, and a prestige does not touch it. | More |
| Research Hall research, statues | More |
S
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Salvage | More | |
| Scene tabs board tab, bottom bar, nav | ARCADE · BOARD · HOARD — the joined strip in the middle of the bottom bar. The lit, taller tab is the screen you are on. MENU, the green SHOP and the red X sit beside it. | More |
| Season sticker season, cycle | Sticker albums run in 50-day seasons. Every sticker pays Sticker Stars the moment you get it; when a season ends the album resets, and your stars, titles and currency stay. | More |
| Shiny shiny pet | More | |
| Shop | More | |
| Skill tree skills, skill points | More | |
| Skins skin, outfit, character | More | |
| Social friends, timeline, gifts | More | |
| Split ball owl sage, tiny ball | A ball split by the Owl Sage. The clone pays 25% loot and 25% lock damage and cannot split again. | More |
| Stake multiplier chip, x2, x10 | More | |
| Star ball | More | |
| Star shop (sticker upgrades) sticker lab, sticker upgrades | More | |
| Stars (pet ★) 1 star, 2 star, 3 star | A pet’s fusion rank, 1★ to 3★. Ability N of a multi-ability pet needs N★; single-ability pets get extra fusion perks instead. | More |
| Sticker packs packs | More | |
| Sticker requests | Ask a friend for one spare (non-gold) sticker per day — one open request at a time — from the ALBUMS zoom view. | More |
| Sticker Stars | What every sticker pays the moment you get it, new or duplicate: 1 per rarity star, gold ×5, rainbow ×25. Yours to keep, even if you gift the sticker away. Spend them in the Sticker Vault and the star shop. | More |
| Sticker Vault (Safe) safe, vault | More | |
| Summoning Altar altar, elusive orb, orbs | The Boss Raid hub's altar: Elusive Orbs from raid chests climb an 11-rung ladder of raid companion pets. | More |
T
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Ticket Trove trove, tickets | More | |
| Time Candy candy item | More | |
| Titles title | More | |
| Tournaments event, weekly event | More | |
| Trading (pets) trade | Swap a regular or limited pet with a friend — the pets change owners and restart at level 1 (an evolved pet at level 100), keeping their stars, purple stars, evolution, shiny, nature and items, and can be traded again. Elusive pets never trade; equipped or busy pets cannot be offered. One trade sent and one received per day. | More |
| Trophies (retired) trophy case, figurine | More |
U
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Upgrades bar upgrades | More |
V
W
| Term | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome Back offline summary | More | |
| World Hop travel, world map | More | |
| Worlds | Meadow Aurora Flora Maelstrom Inferno 5 boards, each with its own bins, ores, pets, pet cards and music. | More |
See also
- Getting Started — A new-player guide to Ballin Tycoon: the core loop from bins and ore to the Hoard and its gates, the intro task ladder, what to spend on, common mistakes and the goals that come next.
- Menu & HUD — A tour of the screen: the top bar, the launch bar, the pet row and bag, the ARCADE / BOARD / HOARD tabs, the MENU hub and its sections, full-page menus and the WELCOME BACK card.
- Rates & Odds — Every chance in Ballin Tycoon on one page — bin landings, portals, sticker packs, candy, dice, pet cards, pet crates, elusive and limited pets, Mega Win, Mines, wheels, Jackpot Frenzy, Ball Grove and more, all computed from the game data.
- Gates — The 50-gate ladder: how attacks work, health and armor for every gate, and everything each gate unlocks.
- The Marquee — One reward on every Arcade level up to 500: the arcade's lock damage, coin gain, gate damage, storage and slots, plus the stake ladder and a few pet features.