Microsoft Bingo
20 Achievements
1,000
54-66h
Around the Globe
You have played at least one Bingo matches within every destination, in the right order. Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked
40
0.25%
How to unlock the Around the Globe achievement in Microsoft Bingo - Definitive Guide
First off, how to actually unlock this achievement - you have to play a bingo game on each of the 10 destinations in order, from left to right. You unlock a new destination every 5 levels, so at level 6, 11, 16, 21, etc. The last destination is unlocked at level 46, so your ultimate goal is to get to level 46. This is going to take a while. Your entire time with this game will be geared toward leveling up to level 46 as fast as possible. As a point of reference, I have 606 games played according to the Xbox One app as of completing this achievement. So expect to put in a lot of time. To make it as smooth and efficient as possible, I have laid out a detailed guide for getting to level 46. Along the way you will unlock pretty much every other achievement.
Phase One - Level 1 until 1,000 Coins
When you start the game, you won't have any keys, power-ups, coins or anything. First, do the tutorial to get some of each. You also can only play with one card and can't play power bingo. This phase is going to be slow and boring, but it's necessary to get the ball rolling for Phase Two. The most important part of Phase One is DO NOT SPEND COINS. Not on power bingo, extra numbers, nothing. Your goal in Phase One is to amass 1000 coins. It will seem like a lot at first, but it will start a loop that will make things much easier later. So that's it for Phase One. Play bingo games with as many cards as you can (I recommend 4 cards maximum) until you have 1000 coins. You'll probably be somewhere around level 8-10 when you get 1000 coins. Then it's time for Phase Two.
Phase Two - 1,000 Coins until Level 41ish
This is the bulk of the process and it starts as soon as you reach 1000 coins. Spend those 1000 on 100 keys from the shop. Now here's how you'll be playing each bingo game:
- I recommend playing every game with 4 bingo cards. If you think you can handle daubing more than that, go for it, but I found 4 to be optimal.
- Buy 3 power bingo numbers at the start of every game. You should aim to complete your power bingo card a few times in each destination. The goal here is to reach the 100-key milestone in each destination. Doing so will award you with a free 155 keys when the community challenge completed.
- Play the actual games like normal, but make as efficient use of your power-ups as possible. Refer to the "Jet-Setter" achievement solution for a description of every power-up and when to use it.
- It will be tempting to spend coins on extra numbers to get one more bingo or something like that, but resist. You want to always make sure you can buy another set of 100 keys for 1000 coins.
- At the end of each game, always open all of your luggage. You should always have enough keys to open them all.
The main thing here is the cyclical nature of buying 100 keys, and then opening all luggage you get along the way to amass another 1000 coins for another 100 keys. Even while spending coins on power bingo numbers, I was still building coins toward my next 100 keys, so you shouldn't have to worry about that.
A critical thing to be aware of here is that getting bingos is NOT the fastest way to level up. This may seem counterintuitive, but the fastest way to level up is by daubing diamonds on your bingo card. This means that gold power-ups like the B or Star power-ups that increase your chances of getting a bingo are useless when compared to the bronze Diamond power-up. You may have a few diamonds on your cards at the start of the game, but using a Diamond power-up puts some on each card. It is absolutely critical that you use these power-ups as efficiently as possible. The higher your level, you'll see how pathetic of an experience increase you get just from a handful of bingos on your cards and maybe a power bingo or two. This whole process of buying keys and opening luggage is to try to get Diamond power-ups to then use. Even better is if you can also use a X2 power-up in the same game to double your experience on top of the Diamond power-ups. If these things line up, or you're able to use more than one Diamond power-up in a row, if you've got coins to spare, I would typically spend them on extra numbers to try to get more Diamond daubs. As long as you'll have enough coins that you don't run out of keys, you can spend some coins on extra numbers to get more Diamond daubs.
You're going to continue with this cycle of save coins for 100 keys, buy them, use them to open luggage to get more coins and power-ups, etc., all the while playing power bingo to reach the 100-key milestone in each destination. While doing this strategy you'll be getting tons of power bingos, spending lots of coins, using lots of power-ups, and also finding souvenirs inside all the luggage you'll be opening. So you'll be making progress towards basically every achievement. As soon as you unlock a new destination, move on to that destination, since the experience you get increases. The only time I wouldn't move on right away was if I needed to get any more power bingos to reach 100 keys or if I only needed 1-2 more souvenirs to complete the collection. Then I'd play a couple more games there before moving on, so I'd finish those things.
Phase Three - Level 41ish to Level 46
You could continue with Phase Two all the way to level 46 for sure, but I changed up my strategy once I got into the 40s because I had amassed so many coins and keys. What allowed me to do this phase was that the community challenges were completing from the first 6-8 destinations and each was giving me 155 keys, meaning I was not going to run out anytime soon, so I had built up over 4000 coins and over 300 keys. So if you get to this point in the 40s as well, here's what I was doing to level up even faster.
Blow through all of your power-ups each game with the exception of Diamond ones, X2, and/or the Lightning Bolt. Definitely don't use a Lightning Bolt power-up unless it's the first one in a game. If you get one first, then spam every power-up after that - Diamonds preferably, but also coins secondly, then keys and luggage. You'll be filling up a decent amount of your cards with the various power-up tiles to daub. Then, at the end of a game, I would spend around 1000 coins on extra numbers until I completed the travel patterns and got most of the power-up tiles daubed. I'd end up with 10+ bingos per card, 1-2 travel patterns, and tons of extras from power-ups. I would then have 30-50 luggage to open after these games. This would ensure I always had a ton of power-ups, and would somewhat refill the coins I spent, but not completely. I would also get a huge amount of tickets, ensuring I'd never run out. I would only splurge in the extra numbers on games where the power-ups aligned to give me lots of tiles to daub from power-ups. If you're getting the Crosshair or ? power-up, I just wasted them and didn't bother buying numbers that round. Consider it a round to regain coins.
Once you finally reach level 46, simply play a 1-card game at each destination in order to unlock the achievement.