Test your vocabulary and end world hunger

[DaJe]

http://www.freerice.com


You try to choose the right definition for the words. For each one you get correct, 10 grains of rice are donated via the UN in an effort to help end world hunger. And you can also improve your vocabulaay while doing so. So this is good, promoting education and feeding the hungry. They're able to do this because of their sponsors on the bottom of the page each time you're doing it. So far I've done 400 grains, but that's not enough for me to be satisfied with yet.

[Spawn-Inc]

oh ya well i did 500! haha interesting, i wonder how they make sure they send the right amount of grain? i wonder how many grains it takes to feed a person in one sitting, day, week, month, year, etc. i wonder how many grains of rice in a bag? how many bags go where and how many. i wonder if its plain rice or wild, flavored or plain.

[D1337]

I hit 50 on the vocab level. The rice is most likely white or wild. They probably just average how many grains of rice are in a bag by weight.

I was CONSIDERING making a macro (bot) to just continually click the first answer, so it would build up even with a low vocab score..

But after reading through it and doing a whois, there is no guarantee that the money earned by the ad impressions or click is going to feeding the hungry. If the website was registered in trusted organization name i would think otherwise.

[Greco101]

My gf's a human dictionary...

[jdbnsn]

I know this is a good cause and all, but it's a bit distrurbing in a way. If they have the rice, they should just give it to the hungry rather than sit on it and see if we can define vocabulary terms before feeding starving people. I don't know, maybe I'm just over-suspicious, their "about" section isn't very detailed.

[noopypoop]

I know this is a good cause and all, but it's a bit distrurbing in a way. If they have the rice, they should just give it to the hungry rather than sit on it and see if we can define vocabulary terms before feeding starving people. I don't know, maybe I'm just over-suspicious, their "about" section isn't very detailed.

thats exactly what i was thinking!


Maybe all of this is going towards Bush's next chinese food dinner? =)

[Greco101]

Maybe they are being paid a small amount by their sponsors for the amount of time you're on their site? I mean... there are links to MAC, Office Depot and Readers Digest. They all seem like businesses that would participate for the cause.

[Omega]

Jon's got a good point.

'Course, whether they're actually donating rice or not doesn't really matter to me, I'ts fun nto test my vocab so =/

[jdbnsn]

Maybe they are being paid a small amount by their sponsors for the amount of time you're on their site?

This is actually what I suspect as a good possiblity, just a gimmick for generating traffic. I just didn't want to admit to be perfectly honest because I hope that's not the case.

[Scotty]

My gf's a human dictionary...

No she isn't she has just been playing it for several weeks. Although that vocab level is like 10 higher than mine, although i did just randomly click half of them.