http://www.freerice.com/ A fun little word defining game, for every one you get right they donate 10 grains of rice to charity. I have a total of around 1,500 grains so far. Fun if you have some spare time, and you'll discover some new words while your at it.
Cool, what's your current vocab level? Mines 33 after 120 grains. Update: Quit at 1700 and 40. Was a good use of time though.
Mine was at about 40 after 4 bowls. (I was playing this on the 5th or 6th day after it had been released). I got bored after doing it for a while, tbh. But I still felt good that some people were getting some rice. Cos I love rice.
Mine was about 19 and 450greins when the site stopped responding... A bit challenging when English is a second language, but it's nice to learn new words while donating rice.
Level 31 and 180 grains. I agree with smilodon, great way to learn new words while donating rice. Also, in contrast, my knowledge of spanish has actually helped me on some (e.g. felecity - feliz in spanish means happy)
Why do I have to play a silly game to get people rice? Isn't there a more productive way to get people rice?
Level 42 and 1450 grains of rice. Learned a lot of words I didn't know. Apparently a gaur is an oxen (firefox spell check doesn't like it....).
Well the longer we spend on the website, the more they can charge for advertising = more profits = alot more money being made than 10 grains of rice, so it's a small donation for our time really What is really slack is that incorrect answers mean no rice gets dontated, which is bull as each click = more advertising comission/profit For the website to be fair it would have to donate rice for every click, but making it that simple to donate rice removes the challenge which reduces the appeal of the website. As it stands the website is like a game show where the cash prizes get donated to charity, giving the contestants a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
You've got to answer roughly 5,000 questions to donate a kilo of rice. Donate to a food aid cause instead and you'll do a lot better than ONE bag of rice for 5,000 questions... http://www.wfp.org/english/
Yeah it's definetly not a fair ratio, 100 grains per answer would be better, but it's better than nothing. I'll donate when i see someone shaking a can on a corner for some charity, but i've never gone out of my way to donate to charity on a lunch break. I'm sure many people will be happy to visit free rice a few times per day, just to learn a few words, with the bonus of feeding a couple of kids per day, compared to probably not donating at all. Hopefully they aren't lying and actually send the rice where it's needed. And who counts the rice? That job would suck.
There'd just be a tally/log of how many grains have been contributed per day/week/month and that total divided by whatever number of grains = one big-ass-bag, and hopefully that bag gets sent where it's needed. The extra income is going to the tightass guys running the website
A few minutes at least once a week is good! Learn a few new words & donate a bowl of rice = warm and fuzzy feeling for free VERY LEGIT website & idea - just too frugal with the 10 grains per answer ratio. It should be at least 100 grains There are illegitimate people that cheat, but little do the twits realise they are just cheating themselves of an education, but it's all good, at least that means more free rice If only all twits were that usefull.
