A Better Vocabulary and Free Rice!
By Jenn (TinyChoices.com) | October 29, 2007
Green as a Thistle posted about the highly addictive word game Free Rice: “FreeRice has two goals: 1. Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free; 2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.” I do wonder if world hunger can be ended just by giving out rice for free (seems like there might be a little more to it than that?), but while the bigger scope is being tackled, free rice for hungry people is a beyond noble cause.
This game has reignited my love of vocabulary. The first time I played Free Rice, I got up to a vocabulary level of 42 (out of 50), and donated 2010 grains of rice:
Free Rice was launched on October 10th of this year, and has since donated 330,228,600 grains of rice.
Play Free Rice, and post your scores in the comments below!
Topics: Food, Work & Politics | 7 Comments »
My brother forwarded me a link to Free Rice last week, and I’ve played a few times (maybe 4000-5000 grains of rice total?). I’m hovering around level 47. It’s a good-but-not-brainless break from work.
This is a much better way to waste time at work than reading all manner of celebrity gossip blogs. So far I’ve made it to level 41.
fun! i was also hovering around 40-41.
I never thought all of those historical romance novels would pay off. a lot of those words were straight out of those awful books!
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Your site contains an incredible concept of providing the English vocabulary to everyone for free; and at the same time helping to end the world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
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