Free Rice

[Wipomatic]

This is pretty cool. Test your vocabulary skills while donating rice to starving people.

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

[Gollgagh]

I'm up to level 45 vocab and 200 grains

gonna take a break

[MechaFone]

I got to 110 grains all on pure luck and common sense.

[south pacific islander]

I have a strange feeling we are going to do some sort of contest with this .

Oh I am around 130 grains or so.

[yangfeili]

Is there a way you can have them send the rice to you instead of Africa or wherever? I mean, I'm not technically starving, but I am pretty hungry.

[Fritz the Cat]

I concur. The rice would be much better off if it were sent to me, as opposed to some starving stranger. They'd just boil and eat it, whereas I have several cookbooks I can use.

[TehDonut]

I'm up to level 45 vocab and 200 grains

gonna take a break


wow this impressive...but how is that possible since the level goes up diminishingly after every word..?

[yangfeili]

Yeah, I capped out at about level 45 and then dropped down a bit. I guess reading nothing but Jack Vance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Vance) novels for the last few years has had some unconscious side-effects.

[Arek the Absolute]

you guys are acting as though 100 and 200 grains are impressive
in like five minutes i got 300 grains

you have to have not gotten one wrong to be 45 cause im at 40 so THAT is impressive

[Culturekoi]

Hay so

600 grains in 4 min

AP lit class pays off.

EDIT: 4 minutes later 1000

[cobaltstarfire]

wow this impressive...but how is that possible since the level goes up diminishingly after every word..?

Because it initially starts you off at a higher number depending on how you do.

With me for example after the first 4 words it put me at level 40. (From there I only went down...I seem to average a vocab level of about 32)

It's kind of fun to get my mind working, but after 2000+ grains of rice I think I'm going to find something else to do now! (But maybe come back later to poke it more).

[Citris]

2010 grains and my highest level was 47.

[The Dennis]

I'm so proud that I now know more than 2 words for 'to dig up from a grave'.

[KWarp]

I like this website a lot. Its elegant simplicity and positive mission is absolutely brilliant.

Level 32 and 160 grains. meh

[Paratha]

Level 41, 780 grains.

I swear, half of these words I've never heard of before. I'm just going by word roots and such.

[Tensei]

500 grains, level 33, which is pretty effing good considering English isn't my native language.

[Torzelan]

Stopped at 100 grains, level 42... The site was unfortunately very, very slow for me. But fun!

[Neonlare]

You know what's fishy about this?

The fact that rice has little nutritional value, and that 100 grains of rice couldn't feed a family for a day.

[Wipomatic]

You know what's fishy about this?

The fact that rice has little nutritional value, and that 100 grains of rice couldn't feed a family for a day.

I'm betting the ten thousand grains I've just donated might feed them for a bit

[Neonlare]

I'm betting the ten thousand grains I've just donated might feed them for a bit

It might, but what sustenance would they get? There's a lack of vitamins, proteins, and fats in rice, so it only does a little bit of good. That's of course, if this rice actually gets there in the first place.

I dunno, sometimes I see stuff like this and think that it's just to make the people living in MEDCs feel less guilty. Oh well, tis a 1000 grains done.

[cobaltstarfire]

Rice may have little nutritional value, but it's still food.

[Neonlare]

Rice may have little nutritional value, but it's still food.

It'd be more beneficial to be sending them tools and likewise so they could make their own, people don't want to be entirely reliant on someone elses charity all the time, they would like to be able to create their own food, and be able to be independant. What about the "teaching a man to fish" story? I just think that sending over seeds and other agricultural goods would benefit more than just grains of rice.

[Kureejii Lea]

Lvl 40, shy of 500 grains.

I might be missing something obvious here, but... how exactly does this work? I mean, what's the tradeoff here? Here, play this free little game, and we'll send rice off to starving people depending on your success. Why not just... give the damn rice away? Or does this count as clicking adspace?

[Chickenwarlord]

It takes some serious effort to get down to level one.
I seem to be doing it wrong.

[cobaltstarfire]

It'd be more beneficial to be sending them tools and likewise so they could make their own, people don't want to be entirely reliant on someone elses charity all the time, they would like to be able to create their own food, and be able to be independant. What about the "teaching a man to fish" story? I just think that sending over seeds and other agricultural goods would benefit more than just grains of rice.

It's hard to work when you're starving. You should keep in mind that most of these people work and are still starving, it's not like they sit on their asses in their shack doing nothing.

The way the website explains how it works somewhere too, it basically has sponsor people thingies (the adds on the bottom), and the companies pay for stuff. Kind of like banner adds. Of course it might be a farce and no one is getting anything at all except for the website owners.

[Bummerdude]

Lackluster
DAAAAANNNNNNNGGGGGIIIIIITTTTTTT

Edit: 1000 grains. That'd be enough for now.

[Strike911]

It'd be more beneficial to be sending them tools and likewise so they could make their own, people don't want to be entirely reliant on someone elses charity all the time, they would like to be able to create their own food, and be able to be independant. What about the "teaching a man to fish" story? I just think that sending over seeds and other agricultural goods would benefit more than just grains of rice.

Areas of the world where starvation is a huge issue are often subject to a lot of other social/environmental issues. Trends tend to tie every thing with pollution because quite frankly, if you're starving what do you care that the environment is bad? Additionally, countries that this occurs in typically have little environmental protection policies. For instance some really poor areas in China have contaminated water sources, which have caused tons of deaths, and early indications show the possibility of the water causing colon cancer if consumed regularly. Additionally, this water can't be used to grow food because then the food will be contaminated. People stuck where they are can't move because they lack the money and don't want to take a risk, but are feeding the cycle. They're partially the cause, but can't break out of it. It's a very difficult situation.

Sure you could have everyone growing gardens in a small plot of land, but people are having a hard enough time getting money from jobs to be able to add an additional task to eat from. They're not just being lazy. No one would willingly just let themselves starve to death. And let's say pollution is not an issue; who is to say that they even have land to plant things on? And furthermore, if they do have crops, realistically speaking, how long will a small plot of land last for a family? And what would stop other starving people in the area from stealing these crops?

I agree with you in that a large sweeping change towards work has to occur, but if these people are dying from starvation in the short term, getting work for them won't be an issue. Hell, if they're teetering on the edge of death because of a lack of food, the least we can do is try to assist them.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that these people have been put in a rotten situation where it's insanely difficult to break out of a cycle that their own existance seems to reinforce. It's difficult, and the only short term answer is to give them food, rice (the staple food of the world), so that, in the very least, they can live a few days longer in hopes of a potentially better tomorrow.

I do wonder about the validity of this site though...

EDIT: I hope I didn't come off as attacking anyone because I'm not. And... 2000 grains! I must be pretty stupid because I can't get above level 33. Of course, I am going fast and have made a few blantantly incorrect choices. haha. Good game concept though.

[Neonlare]

Areas of the world where starvation is a huge issue are often subject to a lot of other social/environmental issues. Trends tend to tie every thing with pollution because quite frankly, if you're starving what do you care that the environment is bad? Additionally, countries that this occurs in typically have little environmental protection policies. For instance some really poor areas in China have contaminated water sources, which have caused tons of deaths, and early indications show the possibility of the water causing colon cancer if consumed regularly. Additionally, this water can't be used to grow food because then the food will be contaminated. People stuck where they are can't move because they lack the money and don't want to take a risk, but are feeding the cycle. They're partially the cause, but can't break out of it. It's a very difficult situation.

Sure you could have everyone growing gardens in a small plot of land, but people are having a hard enough time getting money from jobs to be able to add an additional task to eat from. They're not just being lazy. No one would willingly just let themselves starve to death. And let's say pollution is not an issue; who is to say that they even have land to plant things on? And furthermore, if they do have crops, realistically speaking, how long will a small plot of land last for a family? And what would stop other starving people in the area from stealing these crops?

I agree with you in that a large sweeping change towards work has to occur, but if these people are dying from starvation in the short term, getting work for them won't be an issue. Hell, if they're teetering on the edge of death because of a lack of food, the least we can do is try to assist them.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that these people have been put in a rotten situation where it's insanely difficult to break out of a cycle that their own existance seems to reinforce. It's difficult, and the only short term answer is to give them food, rice (the staple food of the world), so that, in the very least, they can live a few days longer in hopes of a potentially better tomorrow.

I do wonder about the validity of this site though...




This is all true, but don't you think that such an economically developed country or company could spare more than just grains of rice? This is why I question the validity of this site, because rice on it's own isn't going to help with malnourishment.

[WesPip]

I'm so proud that I now know more than 2 words for 'to dig up from a grave'.
Hm...exhume and...un...bury?

[The Dennis]

Hm...exhume and...un...bury?

Unbury is a word. The third word I got was disinhume. Like... exhume. Go figure.

[Chickenwarlord]

Disinter, graverob...

[RealFolkBlues]

Bump for awesomeness. 800 in a few minutes here at work, then figured I should stop before they fire my ass.

[linkspast]

So I read the FAQ`s and the advertisers pay for the rice. the site has only been around for just less than 3 weeks.
This is pretty cool, It be better if it were for wells or something.

[Kiyosuki]

Message board of saints.