by Friar Monkey

Created on: July 31, 2008

Do a Google search for free prize games and you will get quite a few hits. There are many decent free game sites with prizes out there, but one site stands out in particular. Club.live.com is sponsored by Microsoft and uses your live id to save your progress. The site is easy to sign up for and is very secure (your shipping information stays private).

Club.live is an excellent free games site. As stated above, the site is sponsored by Microsoft and has many excellent prizes. Each game that you play rewards you with tickets based on how much of it you completed. For example, one hundred percent completion would give you the maximum number of tickets for that particular game. There is a cap of two thousand tickets available to earn per day. Also, there is a limit to the amount of times you can play an individual game in one day. The wide variety of games available negates the individual game limit (which is fairly high). Double ticket days are offered from time to time and raise the daily ticket limit to four thousand tickets. Games played on Double Ticket days also give you double the amount of tickets normally earned for each game. Club.live also offers a toolbar for Internet Explorer that gives you tickets every time you use it for your searches.

The games themselves are deceptively addicting. Flexicon is a fun variation on the crossword puzzle genre. Crosswire has you match facts on the left with ones on the right. It makes for a fun trivia experience. Chicktionary is available for word scramble fanatics. The way the letters drop into the words you type is amusing to say the least. Seekadoo gives you a grid of letters and lets you finds the words hidden within. Clink has you use clues to figure out where the words on the right fit into the sentences on the left. As an added quirk, the words above and below can be used again in your new answer. There are quite a few more games and they all integrate the live.com search engine to assist you with your pursuit of tickets.

As for the prizes, Microsoft provides a decent variety. There are no cash prizes, but there are some valuable items available. Prizes requiring the lowest number of tickets include backpacks, frequent flyer miles, playing cards, song downloads, etc. Mid-range prizes include cookbooks, larger increments of frequent flyer miles, video games (currently Kameo and Halo 2), etc. The higher end includes a KitchenAid blender, Rock Band (Xbox 360), Windows Vista,Xbox 360 controllers, etc. The prizes available offer options for the casual player and reward the patient, persistent player.

Club.live.com is my free game site of choice. There are no worries over spyware installations or malicious code. The games are a lot of fun and addictive. The prizes are mostly quality and receiving some of them for free is amazing. I have personally received two Xbox 360 controllers, three video games, and a copy of Windows Vista for free. The wait for an item once ordered is usually minimal. I am currently working on a free copy of Rock Band!

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