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HOOKLINE.fun

Interactive TikTok Live version

Your viewers guess the song from the tiniest clip, straight from the chat: leaderboards, the wheel, gifts and the points bank. Runs on your PC, connects to your TikTok Live - nothing to install for your viewers.

Download Hookline.zip

Windows · free · includes everything, even the runtime - nothing else to install

1 Get the game

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Download Hookline.zip with the button above, then find it in your Downloads folder.

Hookline.zip in the Downloads folder
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Right-click the zip and choose Cut.

Right-click menu with Cut highlighted
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Create a new folder somewhere sensible - Documents or Desktop both work nicely.

Creating a new folder
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Paste the zip into your new folder, click it once to select it, then right-click and choose Extract All…

Extract All in the right-click menu
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Open the extracted Hookline Packaged folder.

The extracted Hookline Packaged folder

2 Launch it

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Double-click HOOKLINE START.bat. The game opens in your browser.

Blocked by your security settings? No problem - use the alternative launch below.

HOOKLINE START.bat in the folder
Alternative launch (if Windows blocks the one-click file)
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Click the address bar at the top of the folder window (the empty space to the right of the folder path).

Clicking the folder address bar
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Type cmd and press Enter - a terminal opens already pointed at the right folder.

Typing cmd in the address bar
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Type hook

Typing hook in the terminal
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…press Tab to autocomplete the full name, then press Enter. Same result, no security prompt.

Tab-completed command ready to run

3 Go live

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Start your stream in TikTok Live Studio, then enter your username in Hookline with the @ in front and press Connect. That's it - you're connected to your viewers and their guesses count.

Entering the @username and pressing Connect
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Adjust the game rules to taste - rounds, difficulty, genres, eras.

The game rules settings
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Adjust the gifts and bank settings if you want gifts and likes paying into the points bank.

Gifts and bank settings
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Adjust the look and sound to fit your display - the layout is built for the 9:16 portrait ratio your viewers see.

Look and sound settings
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Press F11 in your browser to go fullscreen. Happy streaming!

Fullscreen game view