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Free Rice! - a vocabulary game

Postby samaulle_esun » Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:24 am

This is a cool game I found where you look for the meaning of a word out of a list of four words and every word you get right donates 10 grains of rice to people in need! :P

There are 60 levels of difficulty and no time limits, so you can play indefinitely if you want. It seems a good way to learn new words too. There are also different catagories such as maths, grammar and other languages, and penty of others so be sure to check it out.

Here's the link: http://www.freerice.com
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Re: Free Rice! - a vocabulary game

Postby Qray » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:05 pm

1670 grains of rice so far. The German one is kicking my butt.
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Re: Free Rice! - a vocabulary game

Postby Talon Sinnah » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:19 pm

Prett neat and fun game.
I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the Soul. The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me. The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.

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Re: Free Rice! - a vocabulary game

Postby samaulle_esun » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:30 pm

I got up to 37 but can't seem to crawl any higher.
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Re: Free Rice! - a vocabulary game

Postby Qray » Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:53 am

37 of what?
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Re: Free Rice! - a vocabulary game

Postby Dark Knight » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:35 pm

samaulle_esun wrote:I got up to 37 but can't seem to crawl any higher.


Do you mean level? your doing better than me on the word one, if that is the one your referring to.

I start of on the word game, but then I tried different subjects, like the math one, I remembered most of that stuff getting to the top level, after a couple goes.. it's been over ten years since I had to use some of that stuff...then I tried Identify Countries on the Map, not good at that one, but getting better...

800 grains of rice so far.
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Re: Free Rice! - a vocabulary game

Postby Qray » Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:50 pm

3010 grains.

I was clicking through the Identify Countries on the Map, feeling pretty smug, to tell the truth. Then they'd throwing an African nation in there.

Click...click...click...click...Guinea-Bissau Africa???...SMEG!

Click...click...click...click...click...click...click...click...yeah! Back at level 5...click...click...Burkina Faso Africa???...SMEG!
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Re: Free Rice! - a vocabulary game

Postby Ariel » Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:56 pm

Sam, what a wonderful site!!! We get to have fun and help feed people too. That word thing is addicting!!!! Thank so much for sharing this with us! =^.^=
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Re: Free Rice! - a vocabulary game

Postby samaulle_esun » Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:47 am

Haha, You guys were so slow to comment I thought you were all avertant to rice or something! I think this game will stay with me for a while. Learn awesome words AND feed the hungry. ^_^

In class today when the teacher went around and asked who got the highest score she started by asking who got higher than 60, and some of us sort of jeered at her, then after probing we all realised we hadn't all done the same game. It's an English class, but some of us did the spelling game which accounts for higher scores. She asked around about who got the highest score for the definition game and I detested to find out someone had beaten me and scored 38.

Best word found - Atoll:

An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.

...Amber found herself awake on beaches of the Atoll... mmm. Sounds good already!

Dark Knight wrote:I start of on the word game, but then I tried different subjects, like the math one, I remembered most of that stuff getting to the top level, after a couple goes.. it's been over ten years since I had to use some of that stuff...then I tried Identify Countries on the Map, not good at that one, but getting better...


You started on the word "of"? That's an easy word. Just Kidding =^.^=

Yeah, I mean 37 on the word one. Next time I'm going to start at 35 then see if I can't crawl any higher.
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Re: Free Rice! - a vocabulary game

Postby Dark Knight » Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:08 pm

1510 grains.

I tried the French one, doing alright on it, considering that I never studied it before, I can get to level 5, but it would be good if I could hear the french words...
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Re: Free Rice! - a vocabulary game

Postby Qray » Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:28 pm

3140 grains.

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Re: Free Rice! - a vocabulary game

Postby Ariel » Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:31 am

Oh I forgot about this. Thanks so much for bumping this up!!
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