Test your vocabulary / Do a good deed

[Judge Smails]

I got up to 2000 grains of rice before I got really bored (Vocabulary Level: 40). Go ahead and click it. It doesn't cost anything and you'll be doing a good deed.


http://www.freerice.com/index.php (http://www.freerice.com/index.php)



Web game provides rice for hungry (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7088447.stm)

An internet word game has generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has said.

The game, FreeRice, tests the vocabulary of participants. For each click on a correct answer, the website donates money to buy 10 grains of rice.

Companies advertising on the website provide the money to the WFP to buy and distribute the rice.

[Crispy123]

cool idea, I will visit often.

[zentraed]

Just another way I'll be killing time on the internet. Thank you, sir.

[Kathleen From The Bronx]

I love this..... and I'm nerdy, so a word will come up that I like..and I'm all, "OOooooh....niiiice word....just jot that...down..." Fun :0)

[marky2bucks]

uh...

why don't they just give the rice away without me taking a stupid vocab test?

[cupcakelove]

uh...

why don't they just give the rice away without me taking a stupid vocab test?

Its an excuse to get a lot of ad views and I'm assuming they use some of the money from the ads to pay for the rice.

[marky2bucks]

Its an excuse to get a lot of ad views and I'm assuming they use some of the money from the ads to pay for the rice.

makes sense

[JustJon]

like cupcake said, they sell adspace under the game. I played a bit over the weekend. It was amusing but I got bored at around 200.

[drjoek]

I gave em 1000 bowls of rice I feel good about myself

[Nothing Sound]

Are there actually people that believe rice is being sent somewhere?

Too funny.

[ffej1621]

a good 700 grams of rice before I grew bored. my SAT prep courses played a role in helping give the Unfortunite Rice

[reillyluck]

1100, then i got bored.

[Chigworthy]

Is it white, brown, or wild rice? If it's wild rice, then they're lying, because it's not really rice.

[torker]

1200 grains.
I couldn't match the Smail's 40.:wallbash:

[Yerdaddy]

1500 grains; vocab 40

It's funny how many of those words I learned from Hannibal Lecter.

[zentraed]

I manged to get it up to 41 a few times. Some words I learned from movies, some from crossword puzzles, some from French. I'm able to guess from roots a lot of the time too.

[Coach_Mac]

How many words for a good rice pilaf?

[SatCam]

1230 grains up to vocab 32

[Thebazile78]

I must say that this is the best way to waste time at work.

In fact, I was so captivated that I spent enough time there for the words to start to repeat.

It was 4400 grains of rice and a vocab score of 43-ish before I decided it was time to mooch some more free coffee and move around a bit.

My one complaint: a lot of the synonyms made me roll my eyes.

[Chigworthy]

What's a synonym?

[Thebazile78]

What's a synonym?

I started to post a really snarky and snide reply to this question, but I realized that maybe Mikeboy would ban me if I started to act like Matty.

[Freitag]

I started to post a really snarky and snide reply to this question, but I realized that maybe Mikeboy would ban me if I started to act like Matty.

never stopped you before.

[Thebazile78]

never stopped you before.

But it's funny when I get snarky and snide with your posts.