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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.

I just gave 40 grains before I got bored.
I'd rather donate a whole bag and cut out the middle man.

That's pretty cool. I got to level 47 but then got some wrong and got demoted
-bill

500 grains. My son eats like three times that for dinner.

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?

Good link, Jim. You word nerd, you.

Rice is great if you really feel like having 2000 of something.

My disposition is to vacillate in the quadragintal vicinity.

I like rice because it's like eating tiny little breads.

white rice = nutritional vacuum; the only food more bland than the potato

brown rice = more nutritional value; more flavor, but it's bad flavor, so it doesn't count

fodroy wrote:I like rice because it's like eating tiny little breads.

Like, loaves? I Wonder if sliced rice could be the next best thing since sliced bread?

....if you slice a bread crumb in half, do you have two crumbs, or two halves of a crumb? ~George Carlin

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?

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.

I donated like 400 yesterday. Some of those words are ridiculous, like not even in our own language.

I got to 45!

jimtyrrell wrote:Like I said, it looks like it's on the level to me.

To follow up on Jim's question, the Snopes people just reported on this and they say it's legit.
-bill

Argh. I was at somewhere around 15,000 grains last night, around level 41, I think, and my forkin' browser crashed. Ghey.

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.

from freerice.com:

<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.

And let me just add that yes, it was very homosexual of your computer to do that.

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.

You have chronicled your achievement here.

Well, I tried, but as I said, there's a huge cloud of uncertainty. I noted my highest word level, yes, but the actual total could be off by thousands. I'm thinking it was actually 16 thou and change, but, it could be less, and, to sum up, I'm going to die not ever knowing how much rice I gave.