Patent ID: 7416489

Claim:
A method of scoring an interactive network of games to determine a winner from a plurality of players, competing in a competition against each other, and each of the plurality of players subjectively selecting from a plurality of games of different types of play, one or more games to provide the players' score, by computing a non-game-specific game credit for each game-play event of any selected game from the plurality of games, using a raw score value from the play of the selected game, comprising the steps of: calculating a non-game-specific score credit for each game-play event of the selected game from the raw game score to the exclusion of any game specific characteristic other than any previous raw game score values from the play of the selected game; calculating a non-game-specific handicap value, for each game-play event of the selected game using only the non-game-specific score credit values, the non-game-specific handicap value is a generic handicap value that applies to a subsequent game of a different type of play; adding the non-game-specific score credit and the non-game-specific handicap together to produce a non-game-specific game credit; and comparing the non-game specific game credits of each of the plurality of players to determine a winning player.