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I found this site to be a fun challenge I am a vocab wiz and I love playing games. This is a good one becuase it is not time consuming or incredibly difficult and whehter you win or lose you still donate rice to countries who need it.

Whether your score is high or low people are still being fed.

As a big fan of both rice and vocabulary I think this site is a good way to help alleviate world hunger and by far is a better idea than just throwing money at the problems. I especially like the disclaimer on the site, who wouldn’t want to be smarter and help the needy. Ten grains of rice per correct answer doesn’t seem like a lot but the game is actually pretty addictive. I’m sure from the time I spent on that site I have ended hunger in half of Malaysia and will ace the SATs!

I really like that there are sites like this that entertain people while having them feel like they’re playing their part in a large effort.

But. I’m a little skeptical of 10 grains of rice, but anything’s something.

I think if more people knew about it the 10 grains of rice per each correct word would amount up to a lot

I agree with Jocelyn, I thought this game was fun and it was interesting to see how many of those words i really knew. I also thought it was great thing to donate rice to countries for our knowlege.

Good way to study for the SATs, considering a huge part of getting a good score there is understanding vocabulary. I’ll have to check that out tonight.

Well, 10 grains of rice isn’t much to start out with, but if you stick with it, it can add up to alot! I played this in the library a few mornings ago (when I was supposed to be studying for a physics exam) and got around a thousand grains of rice before I had to go to class. I enjoyed the game, it expanded my vocabulary, and I helped feed hungry people. It’s great.

To be honest I didn’t think that 10 grains of rice at first would be enough, but boy was I wrong, the word game on the website is addicting and before I knew it the rice count was at like 600 grains.

Despite what everyone is saying, I am very skeptical about this site. I don’t see how playing this game is somehow collecting money for rice grains. Or, if on the other hand, it wasn’t a money issue, I don’t see why they just couldnt give as much rice as possible to starving kids, and not ‘tease them’ in this trivial game. Perhaps I’m thinking about the whole thing too much, but I think little games like this are a bit sketchy.

This is my new favorite website. It helps my SAT score and world hunger!
Don’t go to this website just to help with hunger though, rather donate money or something, because it would take you hours to feed one person. In that time, you could earn enough money to feed a couple of people.

this is an easy and addicting game which is perfect for almost everyone. i was happy to see how much rice grains were donated to help feed the hungry

This website is amazing. No doubt about it. Obviously everyone thinks on a personal level and limits the success to how much rice they have contributed. However, if you look at the bottom of the webpage, they give you totals of how much rice has been donated. Yesterday, the total from the beginning date was 196,957,920. In no way am I good at math or able to estimate how many grains are in a bowl of rice on average, but if this is solely the amount donated as of two months ago, then this organization is astonishing. I wish they would post about the countries they support and possibly show pictures of the individuals they are helping.
It is an interesting idea that this website encourages both a brighter future for its participants and recipients.

however, on second though..in a much more optimistic light, i think that perhaps anything..even if it’s not much, that could help suffering people is a good effort and is leading us in the right direction. if the awareness of suffering people increases, perhaps we can really begin to have a big impact of reacting to the problem

The U.S. is woefully low on its donations as a percent of national income to international aid (.17 percent). I, however, now feel on par with Sweden, having accounted for the donation of 1130 grains of rice. (Check the faq on freerice.com to see the breakdown of donations by country).

So far I have visited the FreeRice.com at least once everyday since October 30th and calculated that I have donated about 15,000 grains of rice! Trapped in a never ending cycle, “…constantly malnourished, they [“hungry people”] become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier.” I found this information from a website mentioned at FreeRice.com called Poverty.com, and I have a large understanding of what these “hungry people” experience. I fast every year during the month of Ramadan, and during this time period, many of my friends notice a different personality – moody, laziness, distracted, and very little physical and mental strength – when I fast it’s very hard for me to focus on my homework and when I would get home from school I would usually just fall asleep or spend an hour on an assignment that would normally take me 15 to 30 minutes to complete. Keep in mind that I fast for only a month, and (after sun down) I have the opportunity to refuel myself unlike these “hungry people” where “one person…[dies]…every three and a half seconds…” from hunger. If you want to experience a small glimpse of what these “hungry people” go through everyday, I encourage you to try fasting for one day or one week, your perspective on world hunger might change.

This is a great idea, we always talk about money and how there is never enough to go around, well now we have a alternate plan that i think will work just as well. i love rice and i love vocab rock on. this plan of action is comforting knowing that people are going out of their way to fight this seemingly never- ending battle of hunger.

we used website as an extra credit in english. also congrats to Mrs. Ferguson to get to level 49. i never got that far because every word you miss you drop a level and get back to previous level you need to make 3 right answers in a row
this is my real comment about the site. is the site owners really doing this? what if nobody did any words. then the poor people will die with hunger. also ten grains is not that much of rice. also how is site owners making money to buy rice?
also if the site owners are for real why cant they get give away the rice without asking us to play this game
but i have to say this
the vocab game is cool

So, I’m one of those people who always try and shoot the monkey or hit the target or whatever those ads above the website are trying to get you to do. This game is perfect for me, not to mention much more educational than what I usually get stuck playing for hours at a time. I’ve been calculating and if I play this game everyday at work when I’m supposed to be filing, scoring around 1000 words each game… I’ll end world hunger in no time!

On a side note, I conveniently popped up dictionary.com next to the Free Rice tab, so anytime I have to second guess myself, I check with good ole dictionary.com instead of robbing the poor, hungry children of their rice!

I really love this idea! What an useful way to promote literacy and heighten awareness to world hunger with the same stone. Although I do not know anything about them, I already admire the sites advertisers for being willing to donate food.

I found this site a while back when I was starting to study for the SAT. It was great practice and helps people from around the world, a win-win situation.