Okay, I am fully aware that members aren't allowed to post topics on other websites, especially not in general, but I'm going to go ahead and call out this one as an exception. It's one of the best sites I've ever visited.

Free Rice is essentially two sites in one: a quiz site and a charity site. The main interface of the site is a difficult vocabulary quiz where they give you a word and four choices as to what it means. They start out with some questions of varying difficulty to assign you a "level" from one to fifty, iirc. Each three questions you answer correctly moves you up one level, and each incorrect answer demotes you one. It's really simple and fun, and you learn a lot of new words. I usually start around level 40 and drop down to about 38 or 39. I've never been higher than level 44.

Now here's the good part. After each question, the page refreshes with another question. There are ads on the bottom of the page, so every time you answer a question, the site receives ad revenue which it uses to purchase 10 grains of rice to donate to the world food bank. I've won almost 4,000 grains in the last two days. It may not seem like much, but the more people who play the game, the more rice gets donated. More than 75 million grains were won yesterday, and overall almost a billion has been won.

Basically, this site is a GREAT way to spend a few extra minutes. You get to have fun, learn, and help out just a little for ten minutes every day.

www.freerice.com

Props to ASofterWorld for bringing this to my attention.

EDIT: doktormartini i see you viewing this topic go win some rice

Awesome site, this is great when listening to music as well.

Very neat.



VOCAB LEVEL 30

:'(

Edit: And THEN come the hordes of words I'm familiar with.

This is really really cool.

I'm done for now, I got up to 2000 with a vocab level of 35.  I tend to recognize a lot of words in the 26-30 range--that is to say if it automatically adjusts the vocabulary based on your current level.

i was actually about to post and say THIS IS CLEARLY A SCAM but apparently the WFP has links to this site all over their official page!

and to think that i almost made a fool out of myself

ps i donated like 90 grains of rice before getting bored

i only use my english language skills for evil

I was thinking that too, but the way the rice bowl filled up was proof enough.

The real question is how long will it be until someone writes a program to go to this site and continually select the first option so that they can make a bunch of money and donate a bunch of rice.

There's probably a cap for any given amount of rice you can be rewarded in a day. 

That or some other way to prevent bots. I assume whatever ads are on the page are unaffiliated with this site? I hear those e-ad services monitor their clicks/views pretty closely and stop doing business with anyone they deem to be cheating.

Anyways this is a damn good idea! To think that someone could draw something good from internet advertisements. (Let's just hope they don't start bringing in popups because no amount of charity can justify their evil.)

This is pretty damn awesome.

I got up to 1000. A little pile appears on the left of the bowl, so it looks like you can go up to 10000. Fuck that.

I also got up to level 35. I didn't know half the words, but a lot of them are obvious if you read all the answers. Baronial meaning stately (baron) and panoptical meaning view-all (optics) etc.

If they could somehow integrate this into World of Warcraft it would be like the ultimate

Or Japan could make a new Dragon Quest game where it's 500 hours long but you fight HUNGER SLIMES and they drop rice

Also is this white rice or brown rice because white rice is missing vital nutrients

But yeah I like these "Lots of people doing a little and it amounts to a lot" sort of things. Of course we could just tax the super rich 2% more and donate that ;P

I thought they'd mail me some free rice but since this is not the case I'm not interested