Of the seven Harvard competitors that the Columbia TriStar headquarters has registered in its system, the student says that he has logged in as three of them. He says he knows of one other student who uses the same strategy and says he suspects that there may be only one other player at Harvard who is playing under the four other names.

"I think [Jeopardy!] had good intentions, but I don't think the technology is advanced enough for Jeopardy! online to be foolproof," he says.

Other Harvard students who have participated in the online game say that the spirit of the game is lost when people cheat.

"So we're out-cheating them," says Brandon P. Jones '00, who has not played but says he knows someone who has logged in using his e-mail address.

T. Timothy Wang '00, whose e-mail address corresponds to the 36th highest ranked player on the list of people who could qualify for the semifinals, says that he has never played.

"I'm kind of curious why they have my name," he says.

The score under his name, $117,466, was Harvard's highest average score.

In an interview with The Crimson on Friday afternoon, Keeler did not comment about the possibility of students' cheating.

However, Keeler said she was very excited about the prospect of this tournament both as an individual competition and also as a competition between rival schools, adding that she hoped Harvard students could "kick some Yale ass" on college Jeopardy! online.

"It's really building. People are saying that they are having these parties where they get together, order pizza and play Jeopardy!," she says.