Patent ID: 8764535

Claim:
A device for providing a game, the device comprising: a content information storage unit configured to store information about a set of game contents used in a game; an area information storage unit configured to store information about a set of areas, wherein the set of game contents are to be placed in the set of areas; one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to determine, in response to a request from individual ones of a set of players including a first player and a second player, a game content available to the player from the set of game contents stored in the content information storage unit; accept, from individual ones of the set of players, a selection of an area from the plurality of areas stored in the area information storage unit, wherein the determined game content is to be placed in the selected area; place a game content in an area selected by the first player if the area has no game content placed therein, the game content being determined as being available to the first player, and perform placing processing based on a comparison between a first parameter corresponding to game content placement by the first player and a second parameter corresponding to game content placement by the second player, if the area selected by the first player is a competing area having a game content placed therein by the second player; grant points corresponding to the area to a player, in response to the placement of the game content in the area by the player; and decide a result of the game according to points granted to individual ones of the set of players, wherein if prescribed conditions including a condition that an elapsed time from a start of the game reaches a prescribed time hold, a selection of the competing area to be accepted as an area for placement of the determined game content is enabled.