Club Bing is a group of online

Online game

An online game is a game played over some form of computer network. This almost always means the Internet or equivalent technology, but games have always used whatever technology was current: modems before the Internet, and hard wired terminals before modems...

 word game

Word game

Word games and puzzles are spoken or board games often designed to test ability with language or to explore its properties.Word games are generally engaged as a source of entertainment, but have been found to serve an educational purpose as well...

s launched by Microsoft

Microsoft

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 in April 2007. Players who complete or partially complete a game earn "tickets" (up to 500 per day) that may be exchanged for Microsoft products. The site has been credited with a significant increase in market share for the search engine Bing.

Club Bing 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.

Bing

While playing the games, players may request "hints" which consist of searches on the Bing 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 Bing from 8.4% in May 2007 to 13.2% in June.

Games

• Banana Shuffle — A game in which players transform one word to another by changing one letter at a time. (2 Tickets per complete game, max 622 Tickets)
• Chicktionary
  Chicktionary
  Chicktionary is a word game available on the Microsoft Internet search page. Chicktionary was developed by Blockdot, a Dallas, Texas based developer of games and branded entertainment applications...
  
  — Players are given seven letters from which to form words. A multiplayer option was recently added. (20 Tickets per complete single-player game, max about 34,700)
• Clink — A phrase-matching game. (10 Tickets per complete game)
• Coffee Break — Game sampler consisting of short versions of Chicktionary, Crosswire, and Clink. (20 Tickets per complete three-round game, max about 3,300 Tickets)
• CrossWire — A game in which items on one side must be matched to corresponding items on the opposite side. (20 Tickets per complete game)
• Dingbats
  Dingbats
  Dingbats is the name of a board game that was devised by Paul Sellers and is currently manufactured by Ravensburger. The game, for two or more people, involves solving rebuses...
  
  — Players solve a puzzle and may guess letters, similar to Hangman
  Hangman (game)
  Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two or more players. One player thinks of a word and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters.-Overview:...
  
  . (3 Tickets per complete game)
• Flexicon — A crossword
  Crossword
  A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or rectangular grid of white and shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer...
  
  -like game. (25 Tickets per complete game, max 63,500 Tickets)
• Quote a Pillar — A game in which players spell out famous quotes using the letters provided. (4 Tickets per complete game)
• Seekadoo — A word search
  Word search
  A word search, word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle is a word game that is letters of a word in a grid, that usually has a rectangular or square shape. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words hidden inside the box. The words may be horizontally,...
  
  game. (15 Tickets per complete game)
• Spelling Bee — Players are given seven letters from which to form words; similar to Chicktionary. (20 Tickets per complete game, max about 34,700)
• Taxi Wrangler — A time management game consisting of three rounds. (30 Tickets per complete game)
• Trivia Bound — A multiplayer trivia contest consisting of five rounds of questions. Players score points by inputting answers that rank the highest on a Bing search query.
• Word Slugger — Players are given seven letters from which to form words; similar to Chicktionary. (20 Tickets per complete game, max about 34,700)

Prizes

Tickets earned in Club Bing games can be exchanged for prizes. Each reward is delivered within 12 weeks from the date redemption request is fully processed, unless stated otherwise. 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 one item per household (based on account holder address) of each hardware and software product, and they can only be shipped in the United States. Microsoft does not charge users for the cost of shipping their prizes. Prizes are subject to change.

As part of Microsoft's Search and Give program, tickets earned in Club Bing can also be donated to schools, libraries, wildlife preserves, conservation initiatives, hospitals, museums, and charities.