Time enabled hybrid games

A method of operating a time enabled hybrid game, the method comprising:

• providing a gambling game having a randomly generated payout of real world credits from at least one wager;
• providing an entertainment game having a game world clock and that determines outcomes based upon a player's skillful play of the entertainment game;
• monitoring the output of the game world clock during the player's skillful play of the entertainment game;
• detecting a unit of game world time based on the monitored output of the game world clock;
• and
• triggering the at least one wager in the gambling game based on the detection of the unit of game world time.

A machine readable medium including processor instructions, where execution of the instructions by a processor causes the processor to perform a process comprising:

• providing a gambling game having a randomly generated payout of real world credits from at least one wager;
• providing an entertainment game that determines outcomes based upon a player's skillful play of the entertainment game;
• monitoring the output of a game world clock during the player's skillful play of the entertainment game;
• detecting a unit of game world time based on the monitored output of the game world clock;
• and
• triggering the at least one wager in the gambling game based on the detection of the unit of game world time.