Television interactive gaming having local storage of game portal

A method of interactive gaming comprising:

• transmitting a gaming application from a gaming system to a plurality of receivers via a first communications network, and storing the gaming application at the receiver, wherein each receiver in the plurality of receivers allows for a plurality of users to use the gaming application;
• selecting a game from a plurality of games in the gaming system, wherein each game in the plurality of games is playable from a beginning of the selected game at the time of selection, the time of selection being after a time of transmission;
• initiating the beginning of a game selected from the plurality of games from the gaming application at a time after a time of transmission of the gaming application;
• submitting a user identification;
• generating a plurality of questions per skill level;
• initiating a question answer sequence;
• incrementing through the plurality of questions while progressing through the question answer sequence;
• incrementing each skill level upon completion of the question answer sequence for the plurality of questions;
• calculating a time based score component for each skill level;
• calculating a bonus score component for each skill level based on consecutive correct answers;
• summing the time based score component and the bonus score component in order to determine a total level score for each skill level;
• calculating a real time total user score associated with results of the question answer sequence by summing the total level score for each skill level completed by each user;
• transmitting the real time total user score to the gaming system via a second communications network;
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• transmitting a ranking of real time total user scores to each user via the first communications network.