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Free Rice
http://www.freerice.com
It looks legit enough to me, but it seems almost too simple. Here's the deal: it's a vocabulary game where every right answer results in a food donation (paid for by advertising on the page).
Someone doublecheck me on this one. Like I said, it looks like it's on the level to me. And word games are good either way.
It looks legit enough to me, but it seems almost too simple. Here's the deal: it's a vocabulary game where every right answer results in a food donation (paid for by advertising on the page).
Someone doublecheck me on this one. Like I said, it looks like it's on the level to me. And word games are good either way.
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That's pretty cool. I got to level 47 but then got some wrong and got demoted
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500 grains. My son eats like three times that for dinner.
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ouch. I guess my vocabulary ain't up to snuff. I just missed one at lv 41 / 70 grains. Stupid venesection. I wish ending world hunger wasn't so embarrassing.
EDIT: Well, I kept going til' 1000 grains. Never got above lv 43, tho. Hmm... 1000 grains isn't really even all that much rice, is it?
EDIT: Well, I kept going til' 1000 grains. Never got above lv 43, tho. Hmm... 1000 grains isn't really even all that much rice, is it?
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I donated like 1500 grains of rice, made it up to about level 43. It's really great that so many people are doing this (it was featured on my local news program last night), but I can't shake the feeling that the amounts still aren't much, considering how much rice you need to eat to sustain yourself (not to mention other foods... man does not live on rice alone). Still. Something is better than nothing, right?
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Okay, so I tried this. It's pretty addictive. It's pretty easy to kill some time doing this while listening to Pandora radio. I told myself I'd quit when I got to 10,000 grains. Of course, I haven't. I've probably spent most of my time in the mid-high 30's. I go as low as 32, sometimes, and have hung out at 41 for a short while. I can't break 43. Hell, I can't even get there again. They say humans can't usually get past 48. So obviously, I'm shooting for 50.
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Re: Free Rice
To follow up on Jim's question, the Snopes people just reported on this and they say it's legit.jimtyrrell wrote:Like I said, it looks like it's on the level to me.
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from freerice.com:Lord of Oats wrote:Argh. I was at somewhere around 15,000 grains last night, around level 41, I think, and my forkin' browser crashed. Ghey.
<B>What happens if my computer suddenly loses power while I am in the middle of playing? Does my donation still count?</B>
Yes, once your screen says that you have donated a certain amount of rice, that means our servers have registered it. For example, suppose your screen says that you have donated 120 grains of rice. If your computer then suddenly loses power, or you close your browser, or you click to go somewhere else, your donation has already been counted.
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Yes, I've read the FAQ. I wasn't worried that my donation hadn't been received. If I thought so, I'd be yelling and cursing, and I'd post an mp3 of myself doing so.
It's more that I'm an obsessive archivist, and that I take pride in my achievements, however small, so that I wanted to keep a running total for myself, but I'm now living in a cloud of uncertainty. Which is hell for me. But, you see, it's gay hell. Because I like the flamboyant Satan better.
It's more that I'm an obsessive archivist, and that I take pride in my achievements, however small, so that I wanted to keep a running total for myself, but I'm now living in a cloud of uncertainty. Which is hell for me. But, you see, it's gay hell. Because I like the flamboyant Satan better.
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