As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Awari, backgammon, bridge, chess, Chinese Chess, draughts, Gin rummy, Go, Go-Moku, Othello, Renju and Scrabble.
Following his defeat, Kalanikūpule hid in the mountains for several months before being captured and sacrificed to Kamehameha's war god, Kū-ka-ili-moku.