Acc - Accessory - Used as shorthand for accessory, or acc slot for accessory slot
A/D - Attack/Defense - The stats used in Boss Fight
Adv - Adventure - May refer to Adventure Mode, where you can fight enemies for gear, or Adventure Stats, your Power/Toughness stats used in Adventure Mode
AFK - Away From Keyboard - An extended period of time spent away from the computer, typically while the game is open, but not being actively monitored
AFP - Ascended Forest Pendant - An item obtained by transforming a Level 100 Forest Pendant
A2P - Ascended Ascended Forest Pendant
Similarly, AxP refers to the x’th ascension of the Forest Pendant
AK - AutoKill - Titans can be AK’d or auto killed after the player has reached a certain stat threshold (and/or other requirements)
AP - Arbitrary Points - The premium currency of NGU Idle, used in the Sellout Shop
AT - Advanced Training - A feature unlocked after all Basic Trainings have been unlocked in the current rebirth, allowing energy to be used for boosting certain features
Augs - Augmentations - Shorthand for Augmentations, a feature unlocked after boss 17, where energy can be spent for an Attack/Defense multiplier
AVSP - A Very Strange Place - An adventure zone in Normal, unlocked after boss 90
B
B - Billion (1B = 1e9)
Basics - Basic Challenges
BB - Blue Bar/Blank Bar - When a feature is running at max speed (50 levels/second), visually showing a bar that is completely full and not moving.
Depending on the ‘Anti Fast Bar Flicker’ setting, this bar will either be fully colored (On) or blank/empty (Off)
BB# - Boosted Boosts #/Beasted Boosts # - A type of perk/quirk that improves boosts
BEUC - Blue Eyes Ultimate Chestplate - An item from T9
BEUCDay - A hackday done after obtaining BEUC
Blinds - Blind Challenges
BM - Blood Magic - A feature unlocked after defeating Boss 37, which uses magic to grant various buffs. The Iron Pill is permanent, all other buffs are temporary to that rb
BM - Beast Mode - A toggleable skill in Adventure mode that increases power by 40% (upgradeable to 50%) at the expense of taking 3x damage
BT - Basic Training
C
CBlock - Challenge Block - A group of challenges done back-to-back to prevent losing Number progress repeatedly
CCoD - Candy Cane of Destiny - An item from T5
CNGU’s - Challenge NGU’s - NGU’s that help with challenges (Power, Augments, Wandoos, Gold)
D
DC - Drop Chance
DK - Daycare Kitty - sometimes used as an abbreviation for daycare to prevent confusion with Drop Chance
Drop - A chance for an enemy from Adventure Mode to leave an item in Inventory
E
EBar - Energy Bars
ECap - Energy Cap
EM - Energy/Magic - Items with an EM special will affect both Energy and Magic
E:M - Energy:Magic ratio - Ratio of how much exp to spend in Energy to Magic
eNGU - Energy NGU or Evil NGU - May refer to Energy NGUs or Evil NGUs
EPow - Energy Power
Equipment - The items that you are wearing in Inventory, dropped from fighting enemies in Adventure Mode
Evil - Evil Difficulty
EXP - Experience Points
F
Fib - Fibonacci Perk - An ITOPOD perk, which grants bonuses on levels corresponding to numbers in the Fibonacci sequence
FoA - Fruit of Adventure
FoAP - Fruit of Arbitrariness
FoG - Fruit of Gold
FoK - Fruit of Knowledge
FoL - Fruit of Luck
FoN - Fruit of Numbers
FoPa - Fruit of Power Alpha
FoPb - Fruit of Power Beta
FoPd - Fruit of Power Delta
FoQ - Fruit of Quirks
FoR - Fruit of Rage
FP - Forest Pendant
F2P - Free to Play - Players that have not spent any real money on the game
G
Gear - Equipment - The items that you are wearing in Inventory, dropped from fighting enemies in Adventure Mode
A popular calculator created for NGU Idle. Has tabs for Gear, Augments, NGU’s, Hacks, and Wishes. Use by importing your save (with Disable Unowned on)
GRB - Gordon Ramsey Bolton - Titan 1, unlocked after Boss 58 in Normal
Green - When an item’s boosts are maxed and all display as green when hovered
Guff - MacGuffin Fragments - A feature unlocked after T5
GuffA - May refer to Fruit of MacGuffin Alpha or Blood MacGuffin Alpha
GuffB - May refer to Fruit of MacGuffin Beta or Blood MacGuffin Beta
H
HD - Hack Day - A strategy for Hacks for Chapter 6+, focusing on Hacks exclusively for a day with R3 beta/delta potions, a full Hack loadout, and planned gains using GO. Utilized as it provides a 7x improvement to specialize hacks/wishes vs splitting half in each
HP - Hit Points/Health Points
HSB - High Security Base - An adventure zone, unlocked after Boss 58 in Normal
I
ICB - Improved Cube Boosting - An ITOPOD perk
ILF - Improved Loot Filter - An AP purchase from the Sellout Shop. Commonly considered the best QoL purchase in the game, recommended as your first AP purchase
Item - Drops from enemies in Adventure Mode
ITOPOD - Infinite Tower of Pissed Off Dudes - A feature unlocked after consuming the Pissed Off Key from the Sky. An infinite tower of enemies to fight, which grants you perk points to use for ITOPOD perks
K
k - Thousand (1k = 1000)
L
Lemmi - A Small Gerbil - An item from T6v4
Looties - Refers generically to the Looty evolutions, starting with Looty McLootFace
LRB - Long Rebirth - An extended rebirth lasting multiple days, where beta potions are used to obtain significantly higher Advanced Training and NGU levels than possible in a 24 hour rebirth to achieve a temporary spike in adventure stats. Typically used to defeat certain titans to unlock their feature earlier.
LSC - Laser Sword Challenge
M
M - Million (1M = 1e6)
Majors - Major Quests - A type of quest in Questing that grants more QP
Max - Getting an item to Level 100
It is not required to max the boosts for an item to be considered Maxed
Micro-CBlock - A challenge block after beating Boss 100 in Chapter 2. Composed of 5 basic challenges and 1 24H challenge
Mini-CBlock - A challenge block after beating T4 in Chapter 3
Minors - Minor Quests - A type of quest in Questing that grants less QP
mNGU - Magic NGU
MS - Milestone - A milestone in the Hacks feature
Muff - MacGuffin Muffin - An AP consumable that grants double MacGuffin bonuses on rebirths for the next 24 hours
N
NAC - No Augment Challenges
NEQ - No Equipment Challenges
NEN - NGU Energy NGU
NGU - Numbers Going Up/Numbers Go Up - The name of the game, and also a feature unlocked from T1
NMN - NGU Magic NGU
nNGU - Normal NGUs
NoNGUs - No NGU Challenges
NoRBs - No Rebirth Challenges
NoTMs - No Time Machine Challenges
Number - A multiplier to your Attack/Defense stats, changed by rebirthing
O
Offline - When the game is closed getting offline progress
Online - When the game is open and being actively played
P
PAWGs - An acronym for the Challenge NGU’s: Power Augments Wandoos Gold
P:C:B - Power:Cap:Bars - Ratio used for EXP spending on Power vs Cap vs Bars
PP - Perk Points - A currency gained by defeating enemies in the ITOPOD. Can be exchanged for Perks in ITOPOD Perks
P/T - Power/Toughness - Adventure stats used for fighting enemies in Adventure Mode
Q
q - Quadrillion (1q = 1e15)
Q - Quintillion (1Q = 1e18)
QoL - Quality of Life - Features that make the game easier to play by reducing the amount of work the player has to do
QP - Quirk Points - A currency gained by completing quests in Questing. Can be exchanged for Quirks in Beast Quirks
R
RB - Rebirth - NGU Idle’s prestige/reset system. Allows you to reset progress in certain features to change your Number, reset boss exp, etc.
R3 - Resource 3 - The third resource, available after defeating T7. Able to be named by the player, so referred to as R3
S
s - Sextillion (1s = 1e21)
Sad - Sadistic Difficulty
Shockwave - A Money Pit reward that grants levels to items that are currently equipped or in daycare
sNGU/sNUG - Sadistic NGUs
Snipe/Sniping - Manually fighting to kill adventure zone bosses for gear
Snugday - Sad NGU day - Similar to hackdays, after finishing hackdays in Sadistic, players can also do a day focused on Sad NGU’s for a 5x efficiency improvement
T
T - Trillion (1T = 1e12)
TC - Troll Challenges
TM - Time Machine - A feature unlocked after defeating Boss 30, which grants you gold based on your highest gold drop
T# - Titan # - T# refers to that number titan, e.g. T1 refers to Titan 1, GRB
V
V# - Version # - For titans 6 and beyond, each titan has versions of increasing difficulty
W
Whale/Whaling - Someone who has spent money on the game, spending money
Y
Ygg - Yggdrasil - A feature unlocked after defeating T2
0-9
100LC - 100 Levels Challenge
24H - 24 hours, typically referring to the 24 Hour Challenge