Patent ID: 7980930

Claim:
An on-line game implemented by means of a computer system comprising: a gaming site; accessible by N players; a plurality of terminals available to respective players, each terminal being coupled to the gaming site to transmit to the site data input by the respective players, and to receive from the site data in return; and a search engine coupled to the gaming site, the site being suitable for submitting requests to the search engine, each request containing a pair of words or of groups of words, and for receiving in return a numerical score that is determined by the search engine, the numerical score being representative of the number of hits for the pair of words or of groups of words in a set of pages that are indexed by the search engine; the game comprising at least one game session, itself comprising the following successive stages: a) an initial stage comprising selecting a headword and communicating the selected headword to the players; b) a first stage of the game, comprising for each of the N players: the player determining a first candidate word presenting semantic proximity with the headword, and transmitting this first candidate word to the gaming site; and the gaming site submitting to the search engine a request containing the pair of words formed by the headword and the first candidate word, and receiving in return the corresponding numerical score; c) a second game stage comprising: presenting to the players the N first candidate words submitted to the site by the various players during the first game stage; and each player selecting amongst these N candidate words a second candidate word representing that one of the first candidate words which, on reflection, the player believes corresponds to the highest score obtained during the first stage of the game; and d) a final stage comprising the gaming site: calculating for each player a performance grade that is a function at least of the pertinence of the second candidate word submitted during the second game stage; and classifying the players depending on their said performance grade.