Gaming Gambol.Besides e-mail and online gossip, gaming and sweepstakes sweepstakes, contest or race, usually a horse race, on which a lottery is run. Prizes are awarded to the holders of winning tickets. In the case of a horse race, the draw is made from the names of all the horses entered in the race and vast numbers of blanks. have also caught the attention of big business. WorldWinner, which last month completed its move from Massachusetts Massachusetts (măsəch  `sĭts), most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. to L.A., has taken a novel approach to the online gaming See gaming. sector that has
won the attention of media giant Vivendi-Universal.
WorldWinner said last week that Vivendi subsidiary Flipside Inc., a New York-based operator of interactive entertainment Web sites, will distribute WorldWinner's skills-based games over its network. WorldWinner offers games that pit player against player in online versions of chess, jigsaw A Web server from the W3C that incorporates advanced features and uses a modular design similar to the Apache Web server. Jigsaw supports HTTP 1.1 and provided an experimental platform for HTTP-NG. See HTTP-NG and Amaya. puzzles puz·zle v. puz·zled, puz·zling, puz·zles v.tr. 1. To baffle or confuse mentally by presenting or being a difficult problem or matter. 2. and crosswords. The catch: the company lets players compete for cash. By focusing on games of skill -- as opposed to games of chance -- WorldWinner skirts the 1961 Federal Wire Act, which bans gambling by telephone. At WorldWinner.com, players can practice for free or use a credit card to play for money. Participants pay anywhere from 60 cents to more than $9 to enter tournaments to compete in WorldWinner games. The site claims that more than $25,000 are won, daily and that some 7,000 gaming tournaments are played daily. |
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