Patent ID: 7416488

Claim:
A method for hosting a game for participants located at a plurality of game clients to enable said game to be played based on skill and give said participants an equal chance of winning wherein play of said game normally includes an element of chance, said method comprising: transmitting a game data packet corresponding to said game to each of said plurality of game clients; initiating said game; transmitting a predetermined number of identical game messages at predetermined time intervals and in sequence to each of said plurality of game clients at the same time during play of said game, said game messages representing steps in said game and being presented to each of said plurality of game clients at the same time to give each of said participants an equal chance of winning by utilizing skill to play said game; sensing end of said game; receiving end of game data packets from each of said plurality of game clients indicating the results of said game based on how said identical game messages are played; and evaluating said end of game data packets to determine a post-game skill level of each of said participants located at said plurality of game clients.