Live Search Club

Infobox Software
name = Live Search
"Club"



caption = Live Search Club homepage
developer = Microsoft
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genre = Online game
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website = [http://club.live.com http://club.live.com]

Live Search Club is a group of online word games launched by Microsoft in April 2007. Players who complete or partially complete a game earn "tickets" that may be exchanged for Microsoft products. The site has been credited with a significant increase in market share for Live Search. [ [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/323725_msftsearch14.html http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/323725_msftsearch14.html] ]

Using the Live Search Club Toolbar, the player earns one additional ticket with each search. Only 10 tickets per day may be earned using this method.

Live Search Club has also opened up to allow users to send a percentage of tickets earned in a game to a charity or school of their choice. Many local charities, schools, and organizations are represented to users.

Live Search

While playing the games, players may request "hints" which consist of searches on the Live Search search engine. Every time a player submits an answer (correct or incorrect) a search query is generated. The site has succeeded in helping increase the market share of Live Search from 8.4% in May 2007 to 13.2% in June. [ [http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/2007/07/10/microsoft-buys-its-way-to-more-searches http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/2007/07/10/microsoft-buys-its-way-to-more-searches] ]

Games

* Chicktionary, where players are given seven letters from which to form words (20 Tickets per complete game)
* Clink, a phrase-matching game (10 Tickets per complete game)
* CrossWire, a matching game (20 Tickets per complete game)
* Dingbats, where players solve a puzzle and may guess letters, similar to Hangman (3 Tickets per complete game)
* Discover the World with Matt Lauer, a world trivia game with 8 questions per game (10 Tickets per complete correct game, max 2000 tickets)
* EnLIVEnment, discover 40 hidden items in Raphael's "School of Athens", each item reveals one of Live Search's features (40 tickets for first complete game)
* Flexicon, a crossword-like game (25 Tickets per complete game)
* Hidden Expedition: Titanic, solve the clues and find the items hidden in the picture (20 points per complete game without using "solve" button)
* MCF Prime Suspects, solve the clues and find the items hidden in the picture (20 points per complete game without using "solve" button)
* Picture This, a matching game where you are paired up with an anonymous user and you both have to pick the same images from a search query
* Red Carpet Reveal, a trivia game (10 Tickets per complete game)
* Search Queries and the Missing Links, 26 riddle solving games (6 Tickets per complete game, max 156 Tickets)
* Seekadoo, a word search game (15 Tickets per complete game)
* Spelling Bee, where players are given seven letter from which to form words (20 Tickets per complete game)
* Star Shuffle, a word unscramble game, which replaced Elvis Lives (4 Tickets per complete game)
* Word Slugger, where players are given seven letter from which to form words (20 Tickets per complete game)
* Word Duel, Ready for the wildest Word Duel this side of the Pecos? Your goal is to round up a ranch full of letters and make more words than your opponent. You've got seven rounds to show you're the biggest, baddest, Word Dueler in the West. Good luck, cowpoke!

Prizes

Tickets earned in Live Search Club games can be exchanged for prizes [http://club.live.com/get_prizes.aspx] or donated to schools and charities [http://club.live.com/searchandgive.aspx] . Each reward is delivered within approximately 12 weeks from the date redemption request is fully processed, unless stated otherwise.

By ZIP code, local libraries, local wildlife preserves and conservation initiatives, local hospitals, museums, and charities can be selected instead of the national organizations.

Prizes must be earned by obtaining the required number of tickets. There is no option to purchase additional tickets. Tickets have no cash value. There is a limit of three items per household (based on account holder address) of each hardware and software product, and they can only be shipped in the United States. [ [https://club.live.com/get_prizes.aspx https://club.live.com/get_prizes.aspx] ]

Prizes subject to change.

References

External links

* [http://club.live.com/ Live Search Club]