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The purpose of this paper is to present a numerical approach for pricing cancellable American put options, also known as game or Israeli options, on the finite time horizon. These options generalize the concept of American derivatives adding an early exercise right for the option's writer to the existing holder's right. The writer has to pay a penalty amount above the usual option payment to use this...