FreeRice

Posted by onelargeprawn in Everything Else on October 19, 2007 at 5:07 pm


It’s a vocabulary test. For every word you get right, FreeRice donates 10 grains of rice to a hungry persons around the world. The rice is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).

FreeRice automatically adjusts to your level of vocabulary. It starts by giving you words at different levels of difficulty and then, based on how you do, assigns you an approximate starting level. You then determine a more exact level for yourself as you play. When you get a word wrong, you go to an easier level.

There are 50 levels in all, but it is rare for people to get above level 48.

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23 comments to "FreeRice"

  1. ted
    October 19th, 2007 at 7:23 pm

    Got to 50.

  2. cuimhne
    October 19th, 2007 at 9:12 pm

    Completely addicted...but I only got to 37 (to be fair it's 3am and I'm sleepy)

  3. Zakk Underhill
    October 19th, 2007 at 9:23 pm

    i got up to 39 and started going back down, heh.

  4. Bryan
    October 19th, 2007 at 9:46 pm

    I got to 44. Ted, you're my new hero.

  5. Jim
    October 19th, 2007 at 10:54 pm

    Great site. Got past 50, but I cheated by looking them up. I think cheating's OK for this one.

  6. jodie
    October 20th, 2007 at 12:12 am

    so if i'm stupid - somebody doesn't get dinner? that's a lot of pressure....

  7. Mom
    October 20th, 2007 at 1:10 am

    I got to Level 50 three times in 20 minutes. It helps if you know Latin.

  8. Meg
    October 20th, 2007 at 1:45 am

    Got to 50 several times as well. It was fun, but I have to wonder how the donation thing works-- I certainly hope some poor aid organization isn't having to count out individual grains of rice.

  9. sm
    October 20th, 2007 at 3:21 am

    "I certainly hope some poor aid organization isn’t having to count out individual grains of rice"
    Yeah . . Thats the thing to be concerned about . .

  10. diskussed
    October 20th, 2007 at 3:37 am

    Helping people in steps of $0.0001... Feeling good... No need whatsoever of moving your butt... How cute.

    Go online banking and donate something. €0.1 will do. Sounds silly? In fact that's worth some 1,500 grains of rice.

  11. Lalla Mira
    October 20th, 2007 at 4:55 am

    I blogged about freerice two days ago too. ^^

  12. anonymous
    October 20th, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    got to 49 ...then with a lot of back-and-forth to 50 -- but it takes more correct answers to go up one level than the number of misses that drop you down. when you finally make it to 50 the words are things like "weeg" and the definitions are "indebtedness; probable;orphanage; distill" -- etc. the lower level words are much easier to move through because many of them are latin/greek in origin and one can puzzle out the derivation...and thus word meaning.

    but, apparently it takes 1M grains to eqal 1Kilo of rice...

  13. Rob
    October 20th, 2007 at 6:18 pm

    Got to 49 repeatedly. After that it is a matter of guessing which vague, wrong or just plain silly answer to pick.

    It looks like the quiz was compiled by several people, some of whom know the words and their usages, and some of whom dipped randomly into a thesaurus in the time honoured manner of tabliod crossword compilers.

  14. Barb
    October 20th, 2007 at 6:46 pm

    Got to 50 but what is "pinchbeck" dropped me down to 49
    Good Cause, I hope!

  15. ryan
    October 20th, 2007 at 7:18 pm

    If the hungry of the world depend on my vocabulary, let be the first to say 'they're fucked'.

  16. onelargeprawn
    November 10th, 2007 at 2:24 pm

    "FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1bn grains of rice.

    That is enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the WFP said on Friday."

    Read the BBC story - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7088447.stm

  17. bryan
    November 13th, 2007 at 10:22 pm

    in total i donated 16000 rice

  18. JackO
    November 15th, 2007 at 7:36 pm

    Got over 50 a few times.. Am an English language teacher and found some of the answers to words inaccurate (Can't think of any specific examples at the moment)
    Site is addictive.. But also question whether the rice is being donated..Would be delighted to see some official reports.

  19. Jim
    November 16th, 2007 at 8:29 pm

    Sounds god to me!

  20. Phil
    November 19th, 2007 at 5:29 pm

    BTW, I was wondering how many grains it takes to make 1 pound. WikiAnswers says it's 29,000. So as of Nov 19th, they've raised enough money for 45 tons of rice (2000 lbs each). On Nov 18th, 171 million grains translates to almost 3 tons (5,892 pounds). Minor compared with the need, but not insignificant.

    If the growth continues at all on the rate it's going, it could turn into a significant amount.

    Also, check the Wikipedia entry for more info. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRice

  21. Anonymous :D
    November 29th, 2007 at 12:11 am

    I got to level 41 in a minute or less and only donated something like 140 grains of rice. I'm not anyone special, like a teacher or someone who knows latin. I didn't look up the words in a dictionary, and I'm still in school. Is that odd? :S

  22. truth
    March 18th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    "Helping people in steps of $0.0001… Feeling good… No need whatsoever of moving your butt… How cute."

    diskussed is just the kind of person that should be locked in a room to starve. sitting at your computer writing banal comments, helping no one, all with no need whatsoever of moving your butt... how cute.

  23. MIke T.
    June 23rd, 2008 at 7:11 am

    Another great charity site is AIDtoCHILDREN.com. It donates money to children in need through World Vision.

    Check it out at http://www.aidtochildren.com


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