Live Search Club Helper
July 7th, 2007 at 2:36 pm (Entertainment, Gaming)
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Loading ...If you are the type that plays little internet based word games on sites like Yahoo! Games or MSN Zone then I highly recommend that you check out a new site that Microsoft recently brought online called Live Search Club.
Currently there are only about 8 games on there, but the cool thing is that as you play you earn what they call tickets. These tickets can then be redeemed for a variety of prizes. The good stuff such as the Zune and the Xbox 360 package of course require quite a few tickets, but if you are playing games anyway you might as well be getting something for it I think.
Anyway, I’ve created an Excel document to help with some of the games that provide a decent number of tickets.
The first is Chicktionary. The spreadsheet contains a database of valid words that can be used for each set of letters. Enter the letters, hit enter (or tab or an arrow key) and it will pop up the words that have been verified as being accepted for that particular game. You can use Anagrammer.com for this same thing, but there are so many words that get returned that this saves you from constantly scrolling and also doesn’t return words that the game won’t accept.
The second game I’ve covered in the spreadsheet is Seekadoo. This game is a word search but they don’t give you the words. I’m good at word searches but suck at finding things when I don’t know what I’m looking for. In this version of the spreadsheet I just have it so you can enter the letters from the grid and then by clicking on a given letter it will display all the possible letter combination in each direction starting with that letter that you selected. It won’t give you the answers, but it should make it easier to find stuff when you’re not trying to see if you can find a word that might be spelled backwards or what not. In a future version I might put in the answers but we’ll see.
If I find other games that would benefit from this type of helper I’ll add them as I go along. I’ll also be updating the spreadsheet with new Chicktionary solutions over time so check back every now and then for updates.
** Update 10/3/07 ** I’ve added the ability to get Red Carpet Reveal solutions.
** Update 9/29/07 ** I’ve added the ability to get Search Queries and the Missing Links and Star Shuffle solutions.
** Update 7/30/07 ** I’ve added the abiltiy to get Clink and Crosswire solutions. I’ve also added a statistics page to the spreadsheet.
** Update 7/28/07 ** I’ve added the ability to get Dingbats, Flexicon and Seekadoo solutions to the spreadsheet at this point.
Here’s the spreadsheet: Live Search Club Helper (Current version uploaded on 12/1/07. Includes 350 Chicktionary, 110 Clink, 1 Crosswire, 350 Dingbats, 17 Flexicon, 53 Red Carpet Reveal, 26 Search Queries and the Missing Links, 335 Seekadoo and 5 Star Shuffle solutions.)
Note: The document is in Excel 2007 macro enabled format. You’ll need to enable macros when opening it for it to work correctly. If you don’t have Excel you can try using the Excel 2003 Viewer with the compatibility update for Excel 2007. I’m not sure if the viewer works with macros or not but it’s worth a shot.
Problems downloading? If the link gives you a prompt to download a ZIP file you’ll need to change the file extension to XLSM. Not sure why this is happening, but that’s the fix.
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July 29, 2007 at 9:31 am
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July 30, 2007 at 9:38 pm
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September 29, 2007 at 8:44 pm
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October 3, 2007 at 9:20 pm
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October 9, 2007 at 9:14 pm
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Stacy said,
October 15, 2007 at 7:12 pm
I tried downloading it but it doesn’t give any help for search queries. All i get is mumbo jumbo
Keeblerelf said,
October 16, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Hopefully the issue Stacy is running into isn’t being seen by everyone and is an easy fix. Just in case though, here are the solutions for Search Queries and the Missing Links:
# Name
1 Sprinkle
2 Eggnog
3 Static
4 Hibachi
5 Shampoo
6 Nightlight
7 Stroganoff
8 Oboe
9 Pumice
10 Lavendar
11 Scab
12 Haggis
13 Metronome
14 Mullet
15 Compost
16 Sunset
17 Wasabi
18 Vinyl
19 Noodle
20 Chlorine
21 Matinee
22 Tarragon
23 Hiccup
24 Bayonet
25 Honeysuckle
26 Clairvoyant
shahno said,
October 25, 2007 at 10:36 am
i am regular player of live search club but could not get the site plz do upload i am keenly interested in chictionary ,seekado,crosswire ,cling
i won 13000 points and want to give charity
John said,
February 25, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I’ve reached a problem in my star shuffle. The clue is Guliermo Papaleo. I’ve unscrambled the clue words (elude, feather, and weight) the solution is:
IL??E???. The missing letters are strange: W, P, ur, ur, ur. The three ur groups are treated as a single letter.
Any solutions?
John said,
February 25, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Update on my problem. It probably isn’t me but this particular puzzle. I believe the correct answer is willy pep. Everytime I “hit” the scrambler more and more “ur” s appear until, eventually, all the letters are “ur”s.
Keeblerelf said,
March 1, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Yeah…most likely a bugged puzzle. I know Dingbats and at least one other game had some glitched puzzles that wouldn’t allow you to beat them and move on.
John said,
April 6, 2008 at 10:17 pm
In fact, it happened again with another shuffle. I wonder if Microsoft monitors this chat room so they can fix the problem. I wrote them a while back to tell them about it but, NADA!
Keeblerelf said,
April 10, 2008 at 2:52 pm
From what I can tell Live Search Club seems to be completely outsourced to another company…or at least all the prize issuing and customer service are. Unfortunately, the customer service is about as bad as it gets. I wouldn’t hold your breath expecting replies. Most of the time the messed up games seem to get fixed with no comment about them.
I’d just move on to another game for a while and keep checking back every so often to see if that one puzzle gets fixed.