- Free Rice - Help needy nations!

**stargroup100** · 12-1-2007, 11:26 AM

Help needy nations and improve your vocabulary skills at the same time!

http://freerice.com/

This site is sponsored by the United Nations. Pretty much they ask you vocabulary questions, and for each question you get correct, 20 grains of rice are donated to hungry people in needy nations.

This is the perfect way to stay lazy, help without donating money, and increase your vocabulary skills at the same time! A measly 20 grains of rice doesn't sound like much, but it adds up, and the more people we get doing this, the better it will be.

One cup of rice:
Uncooked - 7,200 grains
Cooked - 1,500 grains

Requesting a sticky or something. Keep bumping this thread, we're doing this to help people who desperately need it.

Oh, and feel free to brag about your level.

omgitznpv · 12-1-2007, 11:34 AM

This is really fun lmao

420 grains of rice, done for now. STICKY PLS

**sarahxjane** · 12-1-2007, 11:41 AM

I do this every now and then.
I wonder if rice is actually being donated?

g4z33b0 · 12-1-2007, 11:42 AM

pretty fun, so far i've "donated" 2020 grains of rice

omgitznpv · 12-1-2007, 11:54 AM

add 2380 to my total. god I can do this for the whole day

*edit*

6000 total grains, this is fun, <3 stargrouop

**demonllama6124** · 12-1-2007, 12:15 PM

i just did 1020. i love rice. especially with some kikkoman soy sauce

**Zageron** · 12-1-2007, 12:27 PM

This is an awesome system.

**dashoe93** · 12-1-2007, 12:35 PM

5,306,133,170

Thats a lot of rice you got there.

**Zageron** · 12-1-2007, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dashoe93

5,306,133,170

Thats a lot of rice you got there.

That message fits perfectly with your avatar xD

**Sir_Thomas** · 12-1-2007, 12:58 PM

Im so glad they are donating a food with no nutritional value whatsoever!

I ate rice for about 5 months almost everyday and dropped about 60 lbs.
It should be like bread.

Oh well, ill check it out.

omgitznpv · 12-1-2007, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sir_Thomas

I ate rice for about 5 months almost everyday and dropped about 60 lbs.
It should be like bread..

You had 60 pounds to drop from eating RICE?

stargroup, I cook/eat rice all the time. 7,200 seems pretty accurate to me- 500 is way off. Keep in mind 1 cup of uncooked rice will end up being like 2 or so cups of cooked rice (adding water).

ps i just donated 15,000 grains

**rsr2** · 12-1-2007, 02:44 PM

I played this a couple of weeks ago. So far I at least donated 10,000 grains

omgitznpv · 12-1-2007, 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sarahxjane

I do this every now and then.
I wonder if rice is actually being donated?

Forgot. And yes, it is. Money for the rice is raised through the advertisements on the website. People who advertise on the website end up paying for the donated rice- and as more people go to the website, more people will end up going to the advertisements. Thus, as the advertisers make more money, they will also end up spending more money for the rice.

*EDIT*

Stargroup, I'm mostly Chinese as well. I'm going to go get a cup of rice and count a part of it and estimate.

*EDIT*

I have a clear measuring cup in front of me, exactly filled to 8 ounces. There's approximately 170 grains of rice on the very top layer. I also count approximately 25 layers of rice. This ends up as an estimated 4250 grains of uncooked rice in one cup, which could be about 2000 grains of cooked rice. And BTW stargroup, I cook rice for myself every day for lunch and dinner.

silvercomet1525 · 12-1-2007, 02:56 PM

Apparently I just donated 5 cups of rice then. This is so addictive, I just spent almost an hour on it.

Oh yeah, and level 33 if anyone cares. Not that good, but eh.

**Nyokou** · 12-1-2007, 03:46 PM

Yeah, the English teachers in school have been passing this website around.

omgitznpv · 12-1-2007, 03:51 PM

I should tell my English teacher to pass it around.

Engler · 12-1-2007, 03:58 PM

I sat down and did this the other day for hours. I believe I got to 26,000 grains of rice in one sitting. Oh, and I was finally able to get my vocabulary level to 45 8].

**09876** · 12-1-2007, 04:36 PM

Pretty fun game. My highest level so far is level 40.

omgitznpv · 12-1-2007, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stargroup100

Yeah my estimate was off.

Spent the whole day calculating:

One cup (uncooked) is about 7,500 (I'll use the Wiki estimate, it's close enough after all).
One cup (cooked) is about 1,500.

Okay, so my uncooked estimate was off, but my cooked was not too far off. lmao.

Whole day?

omgitznpv · 12-1-2007, 04:57 PM

stickying sticky rice would be good.

12-1-2007, 11:26 AM	#1
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