Free Rice will now remember one’s level while playing, using a cookie. This is great news! No longer do you have to start over each time you want to play. I’m going to be using Free Rice much more now. Knowledge for me, food for someone else. It’s still one of the best deals on the Internet.
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Not doing anything tomorrow? Why not play FreeRice and help feed some hungry people?
There’s a group on facebook called “Free Rice Challenge” that asks you to play FreeRice and post your totals on the group’s wall. They’ll then add up the totals and see just how much of that rice is coming from facebook members.
If you don’t know what FreeRice is, here’s what the BBC has to say:
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.
FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1bn grains of rice.
That is enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the WFP said on Friday.
‘Viral marketing’
The head of the WFP, Josette Sheeran, said: “FreeRice really hits home how the web can be harnessed to raise awareness and funds for he world’s number one emergency.”
She said word of the game has spread with the help of internet bloggers and websites like Facebook and YouTube.
“The site is a viral marketing success story.”
FreeRice is the invention of US online fundraising pioneer John Breen.
I maintain that FreeRice is a genius idea. You boost your vocabulary, and someone gets to eat. Brilliant.
Our friends at FreeRice have surpassed one billion grains of donated rice! I hope everyone is participating.
I found the best website on Earth today. It’s a site called FreeRice, where you’re able to practice vocabulary while being altruistic. You’re presented with a word and four possible definitions, and you’re asked to pick which one is correct. For each word you get right, FreeRice donates ten grains of rice to the hungry. Amazing, right?
There are fifty levels of vocabulary in total. For each word you get wrong, you move down a level, and for every correct three in a row, you move up a level. According to their FAQ:
This one-to-three ratio is best for keeping you at the “outer fringe” of your vocabulary, where learning can take place.
I am so angry that I didn’t have this website a year, or even a month, ago. It’s a spectacular, entertaining, and righteous way to prepare for the SAT. Pretty cool, huh?