Give away rice and increase your vocabulary! February 20, 2008
Posted by Karen Joy in Contests, Interesting Websites.trackback
My cousin Jeana alerted me to this nifty website. On it, you play a “game” by correctly identifying the definition of some really tricky words. For each correct answer, 20 grains of rice are donated, distrubuted by the United Nations World Food Program. The cost of the rice is covered by the advertising on the site. Since its inception in October 2007, the site has donated over 19 billion grains. I don’t know how many pounds that is, but it’s surely a lot.
I played for about 15 minutes and donated 1820 grains getting to vocabulary level 45.
Fun and worthwhile!
That was fun! And very addicting. I got to 1160 and 38 before I stopped.
I’ve encountered this a few times – such a time sink! But at least you can tell yourself how worthwhile it is and that the dishes will get done at some point…
I just heard about this the other day… I’ll go take a peek!
And thanks so much for helping me troubleshoot with my blog Karen! Muchly appreciated : )
[...] Free Rice – it’s a vocabulary game that supposedly donates rice for world hunger as you play. I first discovered this on Karen’s blog – Only Sometimes Clever. [...]
I got a couple of hits from your site. Thanks to worpress, I guess.