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Give rice, waste time

February 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments

In case you have a mess of time to waste, I thought I’d recommend you a site that is perfect for just that:

http://www.freerice.com/ 

It is basically a vocabulary quiz (remember all those GRE words).  With each correct answer, the organization claims to donate 20 grains of rice to some poor and starving child.  The catch is that as you answer correctly, the words get harder. The “hardness” of the word is measured in “levels”.  Seems like most of the words between level 20 and 30 are easy.  Once you get above 30, the words are tough.  (at least to me).  The highest level I got to was 39… Anbody beat me??

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4 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Larry // Feb 14, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    45 after 86 words…

  • 2 Stephanie // Feb 15, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    The highest I reached was 40. I wonder what the highest level is, 100??

  • 3 Larry // Feb 15, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    “There are 55 levels in all, but it is rare for people to get much above level 48.”

    48 was my highest score, at perhaps 50 words, but I lost three points before I quit. Guess I’m medium-rare.

  • 4 marko // Mar 12, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    well i couldnt to that well, i made 45, i tried to beat the 48 but was impossible, i have a ecology site witha lot of news of actions to be taken, visit it http://www.ecologyforlife.info

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