Play a word game and feed the hungry
Posted
Nov 28 2007, 08:42 PM
by
Karen Datko
This is frugal giving at its finest. The Happy Rock directs us to a Web site where you can play a word game for free, expand your vocabulary in the process, and provide free rice to feed the world's hungry every time you correctly choose -- or guess -- the meaning of a word. That's right. FreeRice will donate 20 grains of rice for each correct answer. The rice is paid for by companies whose advertising appears on the screen when you play the game, and will be distributed by the U.N. World Food Program. The word game apparently is designed to push your vocabulary but not make you feel stupid. It's multiple choice, and if you get one wrong, you'll move to an easier level until you get the right answer for three words in a row. According to FreeRice.com, almost 188 million grains of rice were donated Tuesday, bringing the total since the game began on Oct. 7 to almost 4.2 billion grains.
The word game has 50 levels of difficulty. The Rock happily reports that he made it to level 40.
