System and method for providing interactive games

A system comprising:

• at least one client computer;
• a server computer, said server computer being coupled to the at least one client computer over a network;
• and
• said server computer being operable to receive a request from the client computer to access an interactive game to be played in conjunction with a live event, to provide to the client computer a plurality of questions that are related to a prediction of an outcome for each of a plurality of particular actions in the live event, to receive an answer from the client computer for each of the questions, to receive a correct answer for each of the questions after each of the plurality of particular actions in the live event occur, to calculate a score based at least in part on a comparison of each answer received from the client computer with the correct answer of each question, and to provide the score to the client computer on at least one occasion.

An apparatus comprising:

• a device encoded with logic executable by one or more processors to:
• receive a request from a user to access an interactive game to be played in conjunction with a live event, said request being originated from a computer of the user and transmitted over a network;
• provide to the computer a question to be answered by the user, said question being related to a prediction of an outcome of a particular activity in the live event;
• receive an answer to the question from the user, said answer being submitted by the user from the computer before the particular action occurs in the live event;
• receive a correct answer after the particular action occurs in the live event;
• calculate a score for the user based on a comparison of the answer from the user to the correct answer;
• and
• provide the score to the computer.