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Like rice.

Go to freerice.com, the most ingenious of websites wanting to fight hunger. It starts out as a simple word question, like one of those on the SAT, but this question does not decide which college you will go to, it decides whether people will live, as each right question is a donation of 10 grains of rice to the United Nation's World Food Programme, which donates food in over 70 countries. So expand your vocabulary, kill time while waiting for people to reply to posts, and more importantly, feed the poor.

By the way, I have 540 grains donated.

If they really wanted to help wouldn't they just donate the rice?

If it was free I wouldn't have to spend time to get rice. That is like saying the money you receive from work is free.

If they really wanted to help wouldn't they just donate the rice?

This is the reason they said:

FreeRice is not sitting on a pile of rice―you are earning it 10 grains at a time. Here is how it works. When you play the game, advertisements appear on the bottom of your screen. The money generated by these advertisements is then used to buy the rice. So by playing, you generate the money that pays for the rice donated to hungry people.

I'm not trying to be a prick or anything... but you do realize that you would have to answer about 2,000 questions correctly to get a single bag of rice? I'd rather simply donate food to the program myself...

Click Stand;13227061']If it was free I wouldn't have to spend time to get rice. That is like saying the money you receive from work is free.

Well, that is true. But honestly, the game is fun. . . and addictive.

I'm not trying to be a prick or anything... but you do realize that you would have to answer about 2,000 questions correctly to get a single bag of rice? I'd rather simply donate food to the program myself...

I know, but it is fun. . . and yesterday alone 160 million grains were donated, by your definition alone, that is 80.000 bags of rice. . . that is a lot.

It really adds up.

This is the reason they said:

FreeRice is not sitting on a pile of rice―you are earning it 10 grains at a time. Here is how it works. When you play the game, advertisements appear on the bottom of your screen. The money generated by these advertisements is then used to buy the rice. So by playing, you generate the money that pays for the rice donated to hungry people.

Ah... I didn't even notice any advertisements. But I guess we shouldn't tell the advertisers that.

So far I 'donated' 600 grains. Maybe that is a bowlful, but it doesn't seem like much.

My English teacher told us about it last week. So I get to learn some new words, get extra credit, play a fun game, and help earn rice for donation. I really like that site.

So far the highest level I've gotten to was 47. :)

So far the highest level I've gotten to was 47. :)

Ah.
I used dictionary.com when I really couldn't figure out a word.
Cheating for a good cause can't be that bad. :p

I'm not trying to be a prick or anything... but you do realize that you would have to answer about 2,000 questions correctly to get a single bag of rice?

Indeed. Similarly, when I visit therainforestsite.com, I help preserve about 11 square feet of rainforest, which isn't very much.

However, I've gone there nearly every day for three or four years now, which means I've actually personally helped preserve about 14,000 square feet of rainforest, which doesn't sound quite so small, does it?

Little bits add up. :)

Ah... I didn't even notice any advertisements. But I guess we shouldn't tell the advertisers that.

So far I 'donated' 600 grains. Maybe that is a bowlful, but it doesn't seem like much.

Yeah, shhh XD

Well, it does add up whemn you do it in your spare time as much as you can

My English teacher told us about it last week. So I get to learn some new words, get extra credit, play a fun game, and help earn rice for donation. I really like that site.

So far the highest level I've gotten to was 47. :)

Good for you!

I will tell my teachers about that, too.

Ah.
I used dictionary.com when I really couldn't figure out a word.
Cheating for a good cause can't be that bad. :p

If you get it wrong, you go down a level, and they give you easier words.

Indeed. Similarly, when I visit therainforestsite.com, I help preserve about 11 square feet of rainforest, which isn't very much.

However, I've gone there nearly every day for three or four years now, which means I've actually personally helped preserve about 14,000 square feet of rainforest, which doesn't sound quite so small, does it?

Little bits add up. :)

It does, I personally am clicking on the literacy site now. I just found it due to you. But doesn't giving books counter the trees sabed?

LOL

1230 before I got bored .... maybe later I would do it more

Ah.
I used dictionary.com when I really couldn't figure out a word.
Cheating for a good cause can't be that bad. :p

Robin Hood?

1230 before I got bored .... maybe later I would do it more

1180 so you're better than me

LOL

1180 so you're better than me

LOL

I am good at vocabulary ... SUCK at spelling though lol

BTW is there any way to "fail out" or do you just keep going forever?

Good for you!

I will tell my teachers about that, too.


Yeah, I've told some other people about it too. :)

My teacher offered extra credit for donating at least 1000 grains of rice by the end of the week. She says that she is on level 50 and gets 1000 grains of rice per night. This game is addictive...


If you get it wrong, you go down a level, and they give you easier words.



Yeah, and it's not like they take away rice...

Robin Hood?
*points bow at you* Shh..

BTW is there any way to "fail out" or do you just keep going forever?
If you get it wrong, you go down a level, and they give you easier words.

I know there used to be a site where you could go and click a button, and the website's sponsors would donate a meal for starving/under-nourished people (although you could only do this once per day). I can't remember the name anymore though, does anyone know the name of the site, or if it still exists? It obviously had something to do with preventing starvation, but I can't remember what it's name was.

BTW if it makes any difference I cruse around level 34 the whole way for the most part

Yeah, and it's not like they take away rice...

I hope not. With enough stupid people they would need to start stealing from Africa!

I know there used to be a site where you could go and click a button, and the website's sponsors would donate a meal for starving/under-nourished people (although you could only do this once per day). I can't remember the name anymore though, does anyone know the name of the site, or if it still exists? It obviously had something to do with preventing starvation, but I can't remember what it's name was.

The Hunger Site, I think. Kiryu-shi had a link to it in his sig.

I am good at vocabulary ... SUCK at spelling though lol

LOL

me too

God Bless Spell Checker!!!!

Yeah, and it's not like they take away rice...

That would be really mean of them to do so, but slightly funny. They might end up having to take rice away from poor people...

BTW if it makes any difference I cruse around level 34 the whole way for the most part

No, it doesn't make a difference. As I said, my record is 47 but usually I hover around 40 or so.

No, it doesn't make a difference. As I said, my record is 47 but usually I hover around 40 or so.

Ahhh cool I did not know what it meant ... would be cool if they gave relative rankings and such and maybe kept a record (such as peaks which I got about the same as you) and averages and such

So, how many bags of rice buy a crate of rifles where they're sending the rice? I can't remember, with the exchange rates jumping around like they do. :p

Up to 1600 now for this time. :)

Crap! I got all the questions wrong so they stole food from a hungry family! Sorry!

No, it doesn't make a difference. As I said, my record is 47 but usually I hover around 40 or so.

Crap, i'm at 28

Crap! I got all the questions wrong so they stole food from a hungry family! Sorry!

They don't do that

So, how many bags of rice buy a crate of rifles where they're sending the rice? I can't remember, with the exchange rates jumping around like they do. :p

The rice has got to feed someone somewhere.

Crap, i'm at 28


I thank my Latin knowledge. :)

I thank my Latin knowledge. :)

Well, I hope that I'll get better on the SAT with this charity

Well, I hope that I'll get better on the SAT with this charity

Yeah, I got 760 on the reading and 710 on the writing the first time I took it. I retook it earlier this month (primarily to improve the math score- 650) and will find out how I did on Tuesday. :)

Well, I hope that I'll get better on the SAT with this charity

If we advertise to all high school students that it does improve SAT scores, it is possible that no one would ever go hungry again.

I know there used to be a site where you could go and click a button, and the website's sponsors would donate a meal for starving/under-nourished people (although you could only do this once per day). I can't remember the name anymore though, does anyone know the name of the site, or if it still exists? It obviously had something to do with preventing starvation, but I can't remember what it's name was.

www.thehungersite.com

I mentioned one of its associated sites earlier in this very thread. Visit all of them - they're nifty. :)

Or you could give some money. And a lot less time. That vocabulary "game" just annoyed me. Sit a bunch of fourth-years in front of that and you've got forty minutes to bunk off and smoke. And nothing else. You think you're solving world hunger? Bullshit.

Sorry.

I don't want to sound pessismistic, but I am so that's how it comes acrosss.

I notice that when my vocab level goes down, they don't decrease the grains of rice I'm giving them. Tight-fisted mendicants.

Click Stand;13227200']The rice has got to feed someone somewhere.

That's true. Even gangsters need nutrients to keep those trigger fingers nice and healthy. ;)

I would also like to note, having played this game for half an hour or so the other day, that I would really like it not to give me multiple level 49 words before I get to level 50. I keep missing the third one or so and getting knocked back down. :p

Like rice.

Go to freerice.com, the most ingenious of websites wanting to fight hunger. It starts out as a simple word question, like one of those on the SAT, but this question does not decide which college you will go to, it decides whether people will live, as each right question is a donation of 10 grains of rice to the United Nation's World Food Programme, which donates food in over 70 countries. So expand your vocabulary, kill time while waiting for people to reply to posts, and more importantly, feed the poor.

By the way, I have 540 grains donated.

I am using this for homeschool........okay, really I am using it to keep my kid busy while I cook lunch, but still, it's semi-educational right? haha.

I am using this for homeschool........okay, really I am using it to keep my kid busy while I cook lunch, but still, it's semi-educational right? haha.

It keeps me buisy so. . .

wait,

how old is your kid and i spelled buisy wrong so that isn't going good so far

www.thehungersite.com

I mentioned one of its associated sites earlier in this very thread. Visit all of them - they're nifty. :)

Thx, I'll be doing it everyday now.

It keeps me buisy so. . .

wait,

how old is your kid and i spelled buisy wrong so that isn't going good so far

uh.....4. She got a 25 or something, but is using new words so that's cool.

I got like a 49 or something and then had to quit to cook dinner. We have been playing for like 2 weeks.

That's true. Even gangsters need nutrients to keep those trigger fingers nice and healthy. ;)

you wouldn't want them to starve now would you?

Click Stand;13227352']you wouldn't want them to starve now would you?

Of course not.
Think of the baby baby gangsters.

Well, my update is that now, each right word gives 20 grains of rice, not 10 grains anymore