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Roto13
02-26-2008, 06:06 AM
http://ww</>w.freerice.com/ (http://www.freerice.com/)

Go feed hungry people.

LunarWeaver
02-26-2008, 06:33 AM
I got around five right and then started missing them all. I didn't even know what half the options meant :lol: I have failed words and the alphabet and the whole world.

Dolentrean
02-26-2008, 06:36 AM
I donated 500 peaces of rice... then I stopped. Now I can feed people AND stroke my ego!

Freya
02-26-2008, 06:40 AM
I'm feeding the world with my brilliance!

EDIT: They have 1120 grains of rice now! From me that is.

Raven Nox
02-26-2008, 06:54 AM
I'm feeding the world with my use of dictionary.com brilliance as well!

NeoCracker
02-26-2008, 06:55 AM
I made it to 460 pieces, then it stopped responding. :(

Freya
02-26-2008, 07:09 AM
1400 ok sleep time.

Loony BoB
02-26-2008, 12:37 PM
That was a productive way to spend ten minutes of my lunchbreak. :)

Rantz
02-26-2008, 12:43 PM
I went up to 2000, maybe I'll continue later.

This is a nice idea. Let's just hope it's not a fraud.

Loony BoB
02-26-2008, 12:52 PM
Let's just hope it's not a fraud.
Seems fine. (http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/charity/freerice.asp)

Rantz
02-26-2008, 01:22 PM
Let's just hope it's not a fraud.
Seems fine. (http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/charity/freerice.asp)

Good! 4000 grains will be enough for today. :)

BB_blitz
02-26-2008, 01:30 PM
i did 2000 i will do again some other time

Madame Adequate
02-26-2008, 02:23 PM
What's with their tapeworm fetish?

2020 grains before I stopped.

What's people's highest vocabulary level? I've got 46. (But am finishing on 42 xD)

Rantz
02-26-2008, 02:45 PM
I only got 37, but I'm pretty satisfied with that, not being a native English speaker and all.

Polaris
02-26-2008, 02:46 PM
goober is peanut?? lol That question was more productive than my entire english lesson today xD

Kawaii Ryűkishi
02-26-2008, 04:26 PM
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e200/grokyou/freerice010000.png

Well, that should do it for world hunger. Next.

Roogle
02-26-2008, 04:27 PM
Let's just hope it's not a fraud.
Seems fine. (http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/charity/freerice.asp)

I was referred to this little charitable game by a colleague on the business network, LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com). That site generates revenue based on the number of impressions those advertisements get, so don't feel obligated to click on the advertisements, too, if you think that they're not getting their rice or something.

Shauna
02-26-2008, 06:15 PM
What's people's highest vocabulary level? I've got 46. (But am finishing on 42 xD)

32 or 33. But then I was concentrating on my Business more. Yes, that is an adequate excuse...

Zeldy
02-26-2008, 08:56 PM
1000 grains of rice from me~

rubah
02-26-2008, 09:12 PM
I've played this a little before (whenever sakura reminds me xD) and I always averaged about 39-40

Quindiana Jones
02-26-2008, 09:26 PM
Around 36/37 was my average. Highest was 41. Most of the hard ones I just used common sense on, and it turned out right. :D

Got bored at 1680.

Cz
02-26-2008, 09:38 PM
This is great. Donated 1680 grains of rice, at a vocab level of 42. I'll probably come back later, since I like stretching my vocabulary.

EDIT: 44 now, with another 400 grains donated. That's probably my limit, but as long as it keeps donating rice I might as well go for it. xD

ReloadPsi
02-26-2008, 10:43 PM
OH GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME THIS IS TOO FUN

Ouch!
02-26-2008, 10:44 PM
I did this a couple months back. Stopped at about 3,000 grains of rice. It was only ten grains of rice per win back then. D=

Tavrobel
02-26-2008, 10:49 PM
I stopped at a couple thousand, with the max skill level. After a certain point, my sister and I started cheating and used dictionaries to get a couple more thousand, making it a competition between the two of us as to who knew more words. I won, of course!

smittenkitten
02-27-2008, 12:13 AM
You have now donated
2560 grains of rice. ^__^

Quindiana Jones
02-27-2008, 12:18 AM
No, you have. :bigsmile:

Momiji
02-27-2008, 12:34 AM
What's people's highest vocabulary level? I've got 46. (But am finishing on 42 xD)

40 for me. I gave up after around 1000. It's so hard to get your score back up when you lose a point though!

Jess
02-27-2008, 02:27 PM
I donated around 1000 grains before stopping. I like it. You're improving your vocabulary whilst doing something good for others at the same time. I'll definitely do it again. :jess:

Heath
02-27-2008, 06:07 PM
Played this several months ago and had a score that was generally in the high 30s or low 40s with a bit of luck. Donated a lot of grains of rice over the course of about a week but then I never went back. *bookmarks*

scrumpleberry
02-27-2008, 06:23 PM
I got up to 41...

and then went way way waaay down. Still playing, only up to 340

Quindiana Jones
02-27-2008, 09:10 PM
Why don't they just give the rice to the starving people anyway, instead of playing this sick SICK game.

Peegee
02-27-2008, 09:18 PM
Why don't they just give the rice to the starving people anyway, instead of playing this sick SICK game.

It's answered in their FAQ

edit: a lot of these words I haven't even SEEN before (James laughed at me T_T)

/sadface

Vivisteiner
02-27-2008, 10:42 PM
I was there, contributing rice on the second or third day it was set up. Back then it was only 10 rice a day.

Ive got to level 50 before.

Shiny
02-28-2008, 12:20 AM
I got up to 2380 before I stopped. I got hungry while looking at the fake rice.

Quindiana Jones
02-28-2008, 06:32 PM
Why don't they just give the rice to the starving people anyway, instead of playing this sick SICK game.

It's answered in their FAQ

As you can no doubt tell by my conduct on these forums, I don't read FAQs. Hell, I can't even spell FAQ!


That's funnier when I say it. :(

rubah
02-28-2008, 07:26 PM
lolol

I got up to 2020 and level 46 today. I managed to stay in the mid 40s for a while and was surprised by the easiness of some of the words, then I slipped back down to low forties and decided to call it quits

sussurus isn't that hard a word! just if you're spelling it

Flying Mullet
02-28-2008, 07:37 PM
I'm studying for the GRE right now and lot of the words on the "hot list" to show up on my test are on the site as well. What an entertaining way to study. :)

Here's a fun one that I got: <i>hemidemisemiquaver</i>

Rantz
02-28-2008, 07:53 PM
Haha, what's that, like a 64th note? :p

Flying Mullet
02-28-2008, 08:07 PM
Yup yup. :cookie:

Rantz
02-28-2008, 08:13 PM
Hey, I'm pretty smart!