Profile for manthan33 - Have any of you seen this website?

manthan33 aka has been a member since December 27, 2008, has scored 4,366 submissions, giving an average score of 1.32, helping 40 designs get printed.

Feb 22 '09 by manthan33
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Have any of you seen this website?

http://www.freerice.com/

Its sponsored by the united nations world food program.

All you have to do is define the word and they will give rice to poor people, it gets very difficult at the 24th/25th level....

its for a good cause, and people who cant afford to give money to causes can help by doing this.

try it out!

nathanwpyle at gmail.com on Feb 22 '09 at 1:42pm

Yeah! I've seen that, it DOES get hard. And it's great to help give rice.

toopersent on Feb 22 '09 at 1:44pm

yay, Im on the 32nd level!

nathanwpyle at gmail.com on Feb 22 '09 at 1:44pm

click here to play!

Goldendust on Feb 22 '09 at 2:29pm

I love free rice... they even have an art quiz version as well! It's all classical paintings though.

linky link

It makes me feel good about wasting time playing games. At least I'm saving starving people!

Jellyes on Feb 22 '09 at 2:45pm

I donated sooo much rice to this website last year haha, I kept it open and didn't close it for...2 weeks?

I got to the highest level at one point if I remember right! (I ran out of words eventually, so I started learning them). they've probably expanded the dictionary/difficulty levels/everything since then though

Krimson on Feb 22 '09 at 2:46pm

well 15 minutes and 500 grains of rice later. =P

manthan33 on Feb 22 '09 at 3:10pm

ya its really really fun

bhoomika on Feb 22 '09 at 3:11pm

yes. I spent hours on it one day.

SuperRyan on Feb 22 '09 at 3:16pm

We would play it a lot in high school.

It makes me wonder, why they don't just give people rice?

nathanwpyle at gmail.com on Feb 22 '09 at 3:20pm

From the freerice.com FAQ page:

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, sponsor banners appear on the bottom of your screen. The money generated by these banners is then used to buy the rice. So by playing, you generate the money that pays for the rice donated to hungry people.