<p>UriA702, great link! Thank you! Wow, some of you have a great vocabulary. I couldn’t get past level 42 after 1600.</p>
<p>I dont think the levels are accurate- I got many more the second time I tried it (over 3000 grains of rice) and had fewer errors (anyone else notice that the words cycle around and reappear?) but the first time I got to lervel 43 and the second stayed around level 39.</p>
<p>I just wanted to post this game for everybody to play.</p>
<p>It’s called Free Rice.</p>
<p>It’s a vocabulary game that not only teaches you words and their meanings, but it also raises food for the United Nations World Food Program at the same time - at no cost to you.</p>
<p>So sit there and pick your brain while earning rice for the hungry people of the world.</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.freerice.com/]FreeRice[/url”>http://www.freerice.com/]FreeRice[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Someone posted this a few days ago. It really is pretty fun, considering it’s practically SAT prep. I keep a window open and do a few words every so often. I’ve gotten a lot “better” at it in the last couple of days since I first played a few days ago; I’m averaging about 6 levels higher than I did at first before I start to drop again. Either I’m actually learning more vocabulary or, more likely, I’ve gotten more used to digging to the back of my brain for Latin roots. Anyway, it’s not a bad game. </p>
<p>For nit-pickers, be aware that the definitions/synonyms aren’t very precise. You’ll need to pick the best possible answer out of the choices provided; a perfect answer may not be listed.</p>
<p>Oops… I somehow missed it the other day…</p>
<p>oh well, bringing it to everyones attention again! :)</p>
<p>wow this is an addicting game! and it’s for a good cause too</p>
<p>on the same subject, would you consider this college app material? :-P</p>
<p>could it? 10char</p>
<p>I got to 45. Fun game.</p>
<p>Fun game. I guess it shows all my reading was good for something. I hope I can get my kids to do it. Words started repeating after a while, so if they played it long enough, they might just learn something.</p>
<p>I just found this game today, and whenever I hear about things like this, I like to know who’s running it, where the money’s really going, etc. So, while following the links, I found this:</p>
<p>“On the eve of Thanksgiving Day in the United States, the UN World Food Programme invites the worlds most prolific users of the Internet to take time out from traditionally the busiest online shopping period of the year and help the hungry by playing phenomenally successful web-based vocab game, FreeRice.”</p>
<p>[Click</a> on FreeRice.com to feed a child on thanksgiving | WFP - Latest news - News - Press Releases](<a href=“http://www.wfp.org/english/?ModuleID=137&Key=2695]Click”>http://www.wfp.org/english/?ModuleID=137&Key=2695)</p>
<p>Have fun learning new words!</p>
<p>you want to know where the money is going? Don’t you think that’s a bit far fetched? It’s not like they are asking you for money, it’s just a game to improve vocabulary skill. I think people are just a bit too cautious with this type of thing. once you see it is associated with the UN and Poverty.com, reviews by the Washington post and NYT, it is safe. Not everybody on earth is out to get you, some people do things for a good cause.</p>
<p>It’s more just curiosity. However, I think people should ALWAYS be careful with things they find on the internet, and I’ve heard too much about “charities” that don’t really pass on money to people who need it. Just because someoneone is not asking me for money doesn’t mean I necessarily want to be involved with them. Also,I don’t think it is necessarily a sign of paranoia to want to find out more about something - that just seems natural to me. The more something interests me, the more I want to know about it. In this case, I thought the idea for the game was really neat, and I was curious about who had come up with it. Your response seems a bit odd, though.</p>