(formerly Live Search Club)
Sign up and use of account is free of charge. Easiest way to sign up is to have a Windows Live account or a Hotmail account.
No, it's not lottery-type of game where you play games and win raffle tickets - none of that nonsense. This is a sure-win for those who will invest enough time (I assume that my readers are smart enough to find the games interesting or you may find them boring but do-able).
Sign up here: http://www.clubbing.com (not a referral link; no referral benefits are offered)
It's very similar to an arcade: go play, earn tickets, claim your prize according to how much tickets you earned.
The big difference: you don't have to buy tokens in order to play games and win prizes!
Choose which games you want to play on their Games List. Most games earn you 2 to 15 tickets per play. Most easy games that take less than a couple of minutes to finish will earn you 2 tickets.
Example: Banana Shuffle
Banana Shuffle mechanics:
Given a starting word ("save", in the example), change any one letter to form a new word, do this until you reach the goal word ("coin").
Possible answer: SAVE --> CAVE --> COVE --> CONE --> CONN --> COIN
This game takes less than a minute to finish when you get used to it ("when you get used to it" = after your first successful 5 games; "successful games" = finishing the game WITHOUT guessing if you're doing it right.)
More complicated and/or time consuming games will earn you as much as 15 tickets. And just like any reasonable math professor, they do give you partial points if you don't finish the game but was able to get a reasonable number of answers right.
Example of non-complicated but time consuming game: Seekadoo.
Seekadoo mechanics: Very similar to a Word Search puzzle the only difference is you don't get a list of words that you search for. Instead, they given a topic. The above Seekadoo game's topic is "Pen Names" as seen on top of the letter boxes. You are to find the pen names hidden in the letter boxes - high light the answer by clicking on the first letter then dragging it to the last letter then releasing the mouse. If you got it right then it will appear on the Word List on the right side. Answers my be horizontal, vertical, diagonal or inverted horizontal, inverted vertical, inverted diagonal.
Here's the answer to the Seekadoo example, taken a split second after I finished the game:
Sorry about the image, a pop up appears right after the final word to offer a new game :) But you get the point.
Tips:
**Don't be scared to make mistakes, it's all part of the game and you DON'T lose tickets for the mistakes you make.
**Don't forget to use your Live Search hints
**There is no maximum games you can play in a day, you can play all day long if you want.Is this for real?
Yes, it is. If you're wondering how Microsoft can afford to give away such goodies, it's quite simple. All available games are word-games. Every time you answer and every time you guess what the answer is, you're actually using their Live Search Engine. And that's the whole point of it: to have users keep on searching - except you don't feel like you're searching because you're actually just playing crossword, word search, word scramble, etc.
How long before I get an XBox 360?
It depends on how long it will take you to earn 55,000 tickets.
If you were to play a hundred (100) Banana Shuffle games every weekday, you'll earn enough to get a free XBox 360 in a year.
For the list of prizes per amount of ticket go HERE.
Prizes range from ringtones to t-shirts to frequent flyer miles and finally to an XBox 360 system.
**Disclaimer (June 1, 2009 update on Terms of Use)
To earn tickets and prizes in the Club Bing Program (the "Program"), formerly known as the Live Search Club Program, you must be a legal resident of the 50 United States and District of Columbia, and agree to these Club Bing Program Terms and Conditions. Void where prohibited by law.
2 comments:
how can i redeem my prize/s when i live outside the US??
you don't if you read the very last part of the post, it says that only US residents are qualified for it. You may still play, but you won't earn the prizes.
Post a Comment