FreeRice

Post by **Rainigul** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:59 pm

Hey, I dunno if any of you have heard about it or not, but there's a site, freerice.com, which is a game where you test your vocabulary knowledge, and at the same time, you feed hungry people.

It's like a never ending quiz, that says "____ means:" and then you are given 4 options to choose from, the more you get right, the harder it becomes. It's fun to see how smart you are, or at least I thought so, lol.
For every question you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated to the hungry worldwide, and you become smarter

The site has been out for alittle over a month, and already 1 billion grains of rice have been donated.

Just thought I'd let you know.

Zypher · Post by **Zypher** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:00 pm

was playing it last night

was fun

cin · Post by **cin** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:07 pm

was playing it just now

i cheated

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

FoxyFriend · Post by **FoxyFriend** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:13 pm

cin wrote:was playing it just now

i cheated

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Bad

grrr dont cheat cin hehehe

Innovacious · Post by **Innovacious** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:13 pm

got to 220 grains of rice and got bored. I dont get crap like this though, if they have the ability to give the rice to end world hunger then why waste time with this crap? Why not just give the flipping rice to the hungry people right away!

cin · Post by **cin** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:14 pm

Innovacious wrote:got to 220 grains of rice and got bored. I dont get crap like this though, if they have the ability to give the rice to end world hunger then why waste time with this crap? Why not just give the flipping rice to the hungry people right away!

this way, us other people get the feeling we actually did something for the poor
peoples in the countries they send the rice to

Reise · Post by **Reise** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:18 pm

Innovacious wrote:got to 220 grains of rice and got bored. I dont get crap like this though, if they have the ability to give the rice to end world hunger then why waste time with this crap? Why not just give the flipping rice to the hungry people right away!

lol Agreed.

Innovacious · Post by **Innovacious** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:20 pm

Reise wrote:
Innovacious wrote:got to 220 grains of rice and got bored. I dont get crap like this though, if they have the ability to give the rice to end world hunger then why waste time with this crap? Why not just give the flipping rice to the hungry people right away!

lol Agreed.

i read the FAQ, apparently the advertisements on the website pay for the rice :banghead:

Post by **Rainigul** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:21 pm

Innovacious wrote:
Reise wrote:
Innovacious wrote:got to 220 grains of rice and got bored. I dont get crap like this though, if they have the ability to give the rice to end world hunger then why waste time with this crap? Why not just give the flipping rice to the hungry people right away!

lol Agreed.

i read the FAQ, apparently the advertisements on the website pay for the rice

No, the companies that are advertised. Mac & some others.

Locketart · Post by **Locketart** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:21 pm

I got to 1540. I'm a hero.

Innovacious · Post by **Innovacious** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:22 pm

[SD]Rainigul wrote:
Innovacious wrote:
Reise wrote:
Innovacious wrote:got to 220 grains of rice and got bored. I dont get crap like this though, if they have the ability to give the rice to end world hunger then why waste time with this crap? Why not just give the flipping rice to the hungry people right away!

lol Agreed.

i read the FAQ, apparently the advertisements on the website pay for the rice

No, the companies that are advertised. Mac & some others.

thats what i said. If you have a website that has enough traffic then big companies will pay you to host their advertisements. That money pays for the rice.

Post by **Rainigul** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:23 pm

Locketart wrote:I got to 1540. I'm a hero.

You can cheat too if you don't care about learning, just get them all wrong and go down to level 1, then you'll be able to get them all right, then when you get up to level 25 or so you can delevel again.

... Like sp farming in SRO :roll:

Innovacious wrote:
[SD]Rainigul wrote:
Innovacious wrote:
Reise wrote:
Innovacious wrote:got to 220 grains of rice and got bored. I dont get crap like this though, if they have the ability to give the rice to end world hunger then why waste time with this crap? Why not just give the flipping rice to the hungry people right away!

lol Agreed.

i read the FAQ, apparently the advertisements on the website pay for the rice

No, the companies that are advertised. Mac & some others.

thats what i said. If you have a website that has enough traffic then big companies will pay you to host their advertisements. That money pays for the rice.

What I meant was that Freerice isn't paying for the rice, the website puts on the banners for free, and they tell the companies how much rice to buy. Y'know what I mean?
Or is that what you meant?

Locketart · Post by **Locketart** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:29 pm

Deleveling would take even longer. I'm getting 9/10 right at level 29.

Post by **Rainigul** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:40 pm

Locketart wrote:Deleveling would take even longer. I'm getting 9/10 right at level 29.

But you get them faster at lower levels. I generally like to take longer and see how high I can go, record is 38 so far.
But I can donate like 1000 grains of rice in 10 minutes on a lower level.

Silkroad · Post by **Silkroad** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:49 pm

2100 and still going ... getting kinda bored though

redneck · Post by **redneck** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:56 pm

ill rice....

IZerkNoobz · Post by **IZerkNoobz** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:02 am

dam i really wanted some rice too

Dystopia · Post by **Dystopia** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:46 am

Thanks for the website, pretty cool

Silkroad · Post by **Silkroad** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:54 am

i got to 3000+ but i just got bored + the some questions kept coming back from the dead

Aby · Post by **Aby** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:58 am

Every bit helps.. What a great initiative.

†erminal · Post by **†erminal** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:32 am

I'm gonna do 1,000 a day

darkmaster21 · Post by **darkmaster21** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:33 am

Wow great website!

Sylhana · Post by **Sylhana** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:53 am

I'm so tempted to just bot this overnight... jk

I'll keep playing till I get bored.

olivierd · Post by **olivierd** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:43 pm

the words are realy difficult if your common language isnt english

Isis · Post by **Isis** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:19 pm

cin wrote:was playing it just now

i cheated

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

I'm very disapointed in you

I got 500 grains of rice..

123noob · Post by **123noob** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:24 pm

I got 0 grain of rice.... does that make those hungry people hate me more? I mean I TRIED... I wish I could help them :cry:

Isis · Post by **Isis** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:28 pm

Its hard for me as well and my first language is English, but it is obviously an american site and im british and some of the words mean somin totally different for me..

I was laughing for about 2minutes when it said wily...

123noob · Post by **123noob** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:36 pm

you people need to play more... I need those 800 grains of rice...

Vandall · Post by **Vandall** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:42 pm

Bastet wrote:I was laughing for about 2minutes when it said wily...

rofl

HOLLAstir · Post by **HOLLAstir** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:14 pm

I have a better vocabulary then I thought.