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FreeRice: Kill Time For a Good Cause
brad drac | 8:58 AM on 11.13.2007 7 comments




Bored at work? Have an extensive vocabulary? Wracked with social guilt? Then FreeRice is the browser game for you. Every time you correctly figure out the meaning of a word, 10 grains of rice are donated to the UN by a group of tax-break seeking sponsors. Even if you consider altruism the root of all wickedness, the game itself is quick to load and reasonably fun. So play it. Or don't. Whatever.



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BlindsideDork's Destructoid Blog
You could just guess? Or look up the words...is there any proof that it isn't just a mindless game and it actually does give rice?
brad drac's Destructoid Blog
Educated guesses based on root syllables is a good way of figuring them out. Of course, firefox's dictionary search works even better. As for proof, you have no more that they're donating than you do that a web store you order something off won't just rob your money. They seem to be pretty legit, and if they're not, those sponsors would probably be hit for fraud. I don't find it that mindless though, vocabular improvement is a noble endeavor.
glipe's Destructoid Blog
Well, I just went on and fed a small country for 5 minutes. Not a bad deal, really. Luckily my grammar good.
king3vbo's Destructoid Blog
..or they could just give all the rice right now.

LAYME
brad drac's Destructoid Blog
If FreeRice has the rice to give, why not give it all away right now?

FreeRice is not sitting on a pile of rice―you are earning it 10 grains at a time. Here is how it works. When you play the game, advertisements appear on the bottom of your screen. The money generated by these advertisements is then used to buy the rice. So by playing, you generate the money that pays for the rice donated to hungry people.

Read the faq, yiz lazy fookars.
NihonTiger90's Destructoid Blog
It has corporate sponsorship, so I'd assume big guns like Office Depot and Apple wouldn't be signing on to something that's a lie.
RedNEXUS's Destructoid Blog
I couldn't get any higher then Vocab Level 32. Its a clever idea and rewarding, I've dontated 900 grains and hopfully learned a few words on the way. Thank you for the link.


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