Patent ID: 8734238

Claim:
An anti-cheating hybrid game, comprising: a gambling game comprising a real world engine constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits for a wager of an amount of real world credits in the gambling game; an entertainment software engine constructed to execute an entertainment game providing outcomes upon a player's skillful execution of the entertainment game to earn an amount of game world credits; a game world engine constructed to manage the entertainment software engine and communicate gameplay gambling event occurrences based upon the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game that trigger the wager of the amount of real world credits and the randomly generated payout for the gambling game to the gambling game; and wherein the game world engine incorporates an anti-cheating module and the anti-cheating module is constructed to: receive player performance information for the player, where the player performance information is indicative of the player's current gameplay performance at the hybrid game and includes the amount of game world credit accrued in the entertainment game of the hybrid game and the amount of real world credit committed as wagers in the gambling game of the hybrid game; analyze the player performance information to determine whether cheating is occurring by comparing the player's current gameplay performance as determined by a ratio of the amount of accrued game world credit to the amount of committed real world credit with historical gameplay data,. to evaluate whether the player's current gameplay performance is beyond a statistical limit of randomness inherent in the hybrid game using an outlier test; and send a command to penalize the player during play of the hybrid game based upon a determination that cheating has occurred from the analyzed player performance information.