[Mac+]

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

Click on the answer that best defines the word. If you get it right, you get a harder word. If wrong, you get an easier word. For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.

Get to it and ameliorate the lexicon of your everyday vernacular... you goobers.

[chucker]

Heh.

[Capella]

You're right- fun and charitable at the same time. This is an excellent idea.

How difficult are you finding it? What's the average vocab level you find yourself around?

[AWR]

Nice diversion. I'm not sure my 150 grains will fill too many bellies, but ...

I found a big difference between level 40 and 41: I seemed to cruise right along the former and get stumped each time in the latter.

[Capella]

Yeah, but if you play for 5-10 minutes a day every day, you can help a lot. I didn't stop till 1000, and I plan to try to do this every day to help out.

[Koodari]

I'm facing some English exams in the near future.. I can pile the rice for charity, language skills and school credits at the same time!

[Windswept]

Originally Posted by Mac+ Get to it and ameliorate the lexicon of your everyday vernacular... you goobers.

[crombat]

I've been playing it for a few days.
You get a special message when you reach 10,000.

[Capella]

It's too bad we can't register or something and track our cumulative totals. I know I've played 3 times today at different times, but there's no way for me to know how much I donated total unless I write it all down.

[Banana]

[Xaqtly]

Yeah how are you guys doing with your vocab level? Mine seems to be around 40.

[Dorian Gray]

A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests a 700-calorie meal of rice would require very roughly 7,000 grains of rice, so 10,000 is about a meal-and-a-half. Not bad for nothing, but you can understand why they're not panicking about the possibility of someone playing non-stop.

I got to level 50 with plenty of help from my little brother and sister. Speaking Portuguese, a Latin-based language, is a massive help for guessing when the going gets tough. When I play on my own I have to fight the huge urge to hit Command-Ctrl-D and I don't always win.

Cool idea.

[faramirtook]

I get up to 39-41, and then I drop down to like 37, and work my way back up again. I donated about 2k grains of rice.

[Robo]

Originally Posted by faramirtook I get up to 39-41, and then I drop down to like 37, and work my way back up again. I donated about 2k grains of rice.

Me too!

I think this is going to be part of my daily regimen, along with Brain Age and Sudoku. And I think I'm going to pay special attention to the words I miss, and try to use them throughout the day.

It's a great mental workout for a great cause. I think it's an awesome idea.

[Bryson]

I'm consistent at 45, but spikes up to 48, or down to 41.

But then, I like "words" rather a lot.

[Mac+]

Man, Bryson. You are really, really, really good. Embarrassingly so.

I'd like to diss you with a cavalcade of loquacious name calling... but all I got is this - and it probably falls 20 points shy of 45.

[Mac+]

Originally Posted by Windswept

Oh yeah, when I called out "you goobers" I meant that as in "you peanuts". (It was an actual word I picked up from the www.freerice.com site.)

[billybobsky]

Hover near 40...

[Capella]

I balance between 42-45.

[Koodari]

Put in 1000 grains today. I was mostly around 37-38 with upper and lower limits at 35 and 41.

I think I spoke English once this year. Some tourist asked for directions.