Cool, when I update the guidelines I’ll add a note that the prize titles are just for fun and could be put in a profile bio if desired (then we see what happens, maybe if that works out we can award them at end of year depending on bingo wins). Thanks for looking into that (and @brandon too of course!) 
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So Yeah, I was trying to automate this with a group and a group manager, but it’s more complicated than I imagined and necessary.
@brandon at the end of the year 2024 we can provide a CSV list of users to grant the badge manually.
It can be bulk granted, so it won’t become an excessive chore.
Also if anyone in this thread is skilled with the art of photoshop or other applications, maybe come up with some badge images? 
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Wouldn’t just a title work? (where ‘Regular’ goes, it would need to be one or the other).
If I understand correctly, to create a custom title you just need to create a custom group. But then I know next to nothing about discourse, so I may be wrong.
It sounds like overkill to me to go fancy with badges and graphic elements for a yearly forum challenge. Badges might be needed later down the line for premium members, or major contributors or frequent reviewers or whatever. Or to show target language, when we become a truly multilingual forum.
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I’ve been looking into it, but seems like you can only assign one title per group.
So the only way to get multiple titles for the bingo without overcomplicating things, is create badges that can be assigned as titles.
I could be wrong though, but I’ve been poking around a discourse admin panel for quite a while by now, and I think this is the most straight forward. A CSV at the end of the year for each title (badge). Then the users can assign the title to their discourse profile, if so they desire.
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not too skilled but I do have illustrator+photoshop
any ideas for what you want on the badge or “whatever”?
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Since there’s a bit to start, maybe we can hold a mini-poll / mini-contest for this?
@brandon would have to ultimately approve to have the custom image in the badge though.
Otherwise we can go with one of the discourse’s predefined icons, but they are not very fancy.
Poking @bungakushoujo for input
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It’s 5 possible titles (from 1 to 5 bingos), so 5 groups. What am I missing?
Creating 5 groups of users, per year, just for a bingo I think is a bit of a hack than a clean solution.
Also those groups need to be managed by an user that has to be in that group, which is way more of a chore than providing a CSV to award the badge IMHO.
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If this bingo challenge continues for more years, I’d guess we’d either keep those same groups (if people want to keep past titles, in which case they could try to get a better title), or just clear groups and restart. But yes, with multiple languages etc, it may get out of hand in the future.
I still think that graphic badges for the bingo may be overkill, but then again, why not.
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We can just use one of the discourse pre-defined ones and go for the bronze-silver-gold depending on the amount of bingos.
The checkbox one fits enough I guess.
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I’m so easily distracted. As if I don’t have work to do. Anyway, something like this then (but prettier)?
Edit: Found a nice brush font
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I’m not the most knowledgeable about discourse - would the idea be that we have some contest/poll to get badge ideas (similar to the cool looking ones @omk3 just mocked up) and those can be enabled for people?
I’m happy to help coordinate whatever and gather ideas, just need to know what the requirements and open questions are 
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I’m currently trying to retrofit this year’s books to my Bingo Card, but I’m not really sure how I can find out which books were added by me? And also whether I finished a book where I was the first grader? How did you all do this retroactively?
Here is the Bingo Card I generated by the way:
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I checked the emails from brandon saying he added my books 
(I don’t always keep them, but some I had)
And I definitely know I was the first grader in books I had added myself, so…
I tend to add a lot of books anyway, and several books I’ve read are only read by me, so in this case it’s easy 
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My card:
Looks like for this year so far I’d have 7/16 but no bingos.
2024 entries:
暗殺の年輪 | L41 for “debut work” (would also be valid for “award winner” and “no reviews or gradings”).
痴人の愛 | L41 for “something you can read for free”.
傲慢と善良 | L33 for “author you’ve never read before” (would also be valid for “book club”).
迷い猫オーバーラン! 拾ってなんていってないんだからね!! | L27 for “been in the TBR pile the longest”
黒い森の記憶 | L31 for “book club”
遠巷説百物語 | L42 for “finish a series”
紫水晶殺人事件 | L29 for “no reviews, gradings or ratings”.
謎解きはディナーのあとで 3 | L31 for “bad cover”
日本語で読むということ | L40 for nonfiction
隠れの子 東京バンドワゴン零 | L30 for book you added to natively
https://learnnatively.com/book/e3aba38cac/ for “higher Natively level than what you’ve read so far”
舟を編む | L34 for “set in a workplace”
忘れえぬ魔女の物語 1 | L33 for “won an award”
ハロー・グッドバイ 東京バンドワゴン | L29 for “chosen randomly”
夢について | L29 for “read in a day”
風の中のマリア | L30?? for “non human protagonist”
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I went (for the list) with a book where I was the only grader (and only person to have finished it). That way I know I was the first 
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Ah, that’s smart! I couldn’t find any mails any more 
Makes sense 
How can you find out (in a list, without opening every book) how many gradings each book has? Neither the “books” list nor the “gradings” list show this information…
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I’m sorry, you just have to do some tedious work for your past year bingo. 
None of this information is visible from any books list as far as I know.
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I feared as much 
I just figured I’d better ask in case I overlooked something important
Thanks for answering my impatient questions!
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As @omk3 said, it takes a bit of legwork (clickwork?). I had a few guesses for stuff that I remembered had a temporary level. I might have misremembered some, but quite quickly I got one that fit.
It helps that I read a lot of random stuff no one cares about.
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