Go to FreeRice.com. Every time you get a word right, they donate 10 grains of rice to people who need them!
http://www.freerice.com/
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Total Donations by Day
Date Grains of Rice
7 October 2007 830
8 October 2007 5,670
9 October 2007 76,020
10 October 2007 287,960
11 October 2007 4,584,100
12 October 2007 3,541,350
13 October 2007 3,194,630
14 October 2007 4,343,350
15 October 2007 6,403,920
16 October 2007 6,645,520
17 October 2007 12,157,010
18 October 2007 26,703,160
19 October 2007 40,373,060
20 October 2007 16,175,550
21 October 2007 13,276,900
22 October 2007 26,881,930
23 October 2007 30,423,770
24 October 2007 37,670,700
25 October 2007 30,819,620
26 October 2007 29,607,480
27 October 2007 37,056,070
28 October 2007 42,153,550
29 October 2007 48,720,340
30 October 2007 56,893,100
31 October 2007 59,167,790
1 November 2007 52,142,290
2 November 2007 45,925,390
3 November 2007 45,760,870
4 November 2007 48,038,530
5 November 2007 53,847,080
6 November 2007 73,566,480
7 November 2007 75,201,580
8 November 2007 77,126,310
9 November 2007 63,253,810
10 November 2007 122,377,240
11 November 2007 136,236,930
12 November 2007 188,987,290
13 November 2007 192,744,570
14 November 2007 184,681,920
15 November 2007 201,226,610
16 November 2007 198,342,510
17 November 2007 160,497,630
18 November 2007 170,885,620
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2,628,006,040
FreeRice began on 7 October 2007.
I earned 400 grains today and got to level 42. I didn't keep track of the number of words I missed, but it was something like 5.
Thanks for mentioning this. This is a great idea and a lot of fun for a wordaholic.
Gene
Same here Gene, level 42.
I guess I'm the dunce-39.
Rich
I got 300 something grains. I missed a whole-lotta words.
But I did learn something new, Jenny apparently means Female Donkey!!
EDIT: Me and my friend just put up a Myspace Bulletin about this.
There's a good chance you will learn - that is retain - a bunch of new words. In the upper reaches most of them are useless under normal circumstances.
BTW, I heard on the radio on Friday that "politics" comes from two words:
"poly" which is Greek for "many" and
"ticks" which is English for "a small blood sucking insect."
;D
I think putting it on My Space is a great idea.
Gene
Quote from: SteamGene on November 22, 2007, 11:30:44 AM
There's a good chance you will learn - that is retain - a bunch of new words. In the upper reaches most of them are useless under normal circumstances.
BTW, I heard on the radio on Friday that "politics" comes from two words:
"poly" which is Greek for "many" and
"ticks" which is English for "a small blood sucking insect."
;D
I think putting it on My Space is a great idea.
Gene
Yep! That sounds about right! :D
Well, I was bored, I started to play the game and I wound up donating 2000 grains....
EDIT: I just heard that my friend's friend (Whom I don't particularly care for.) has gotten over 6000.
Proof:
(http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u23/Vekoma_fan_boy/2000.jpg)
Woopdeedoo.
Great. I'm planning on doing it every day. I may see how long it takes me to get to 1000.
Gene
I earned 2000, skill level wasn't so high, so it got me to earn more!