Patent ID: 8100747

Claim:
A method of conducting an auction based game between at least two players, the method comprising the steps: presenting, via a web site executing on a server, at least one of a mental or physical challenge to the at least two players; crediting, by the server, a predetermined number of points to each of the at least two players based on an outcome of each challenge; auctioning, by the server, at least one predetermined prize to the at least two players, the at least two players using only the credited points accumulated from each challenge to bid for the predetermined prize; awarding, by the server, the at least one predetermined prize to one of the at least two players with the highest bid; and determining if the one of the at least two players with the highest bid has credited points equal to the highest bid, wherein if the one of the at least two players with the highest bid does not have credited points equal to the highest bid, removing the one of the at least two players with the highest bid from the game.