Patent ID: 7867082

Claim:
A method, comprising: operating an on-line game server connected to the Internet, so as to: host an on-line game for entry by players; once players have entered the game, run the on-line game over the Internet according to game rules to determine at least one of the players as a winner of the on-line game; award the winner a money prize; set a time limit for the winner to expend the money prize; and monitor the expenditure of the money prize by the winner within the time limit; wherein the monitoring comprises observing that the prize is spent within the time limit according to a set of rules and that the prize is expended such that the winner, at the end of the time limit, has no assets to show for the expenditure of the prize, and wherein the rules concerning expenditure of the money prize stipulate that the money has to be expended in a different way on different activities from how previous winners of the game have expended the prize.