Test your vocabulary; Donate rice

pretty good stuff, charitable brain exercise :) i got a surprising amount of the ones i didn't know just by association with ones i do! vocab level is 40 apparently, whatever that means

ps troika = threesome
 
i think the vocab level system is kind of fucked up but i donated 680 grains of rice and stopped with a vocab level of 43. losing one level for every word you get wrong but gaining one for about every three is kind of messed up.
 
if it was a constant 1:1 ratio then all you would need to do is answer 2 in every 3 questions right to get a potentially infinite level..
 
i know but i still think losing a level per wrong answer isn't the best system. it doesn't really matter though because the whole point is to donate rice to starving people
 
got around 500 grains with a vocab level at 40 before i started falling. very cool idea, I hope it's being carried out somewhere near as nicely as the concept sounds to be.
 
freerice said:
FreeRice has two goals:
  1. Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
  2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this site.
Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your vocabulary can improve your life. It is a great investment in yourself.
Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes in hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive. Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide. Thank you.
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the free rice campaign is also a small part of the organization that runs the poverty.com website so its not like it is some freelance help organization that only donates rice for correct answers on a vocab test. i find it kind of weird that they are donating a food with no nutritional value though.
 
I've been doing this for over a week now. At highest got to level 41 and maybe a total of 2500 grains. Not sure how much an average bowl has though, anyone know?
 
V is for....Vespa! said:
the free rice campaign is also a small part of the organization that runs the poverty.com website so its not like it is some freelance help organization that only donates rice for correct answers on a vocab test. i find it kind of weird that they are donating a food with no nutritional value though.
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its dirt cheap and quantity is more important than quality anyway
 
I cap out at around 33-34 (max was 40 at the beginning), but be forewarned, many of the words will be culturally relevant, for instance Borzoi is a Russian Dog and having not read anything on Russian Dogs, I do not know what a Borzoi is and could only guess through elimination.

I'm at 2330 grains, which I'm guessing is a sufficient meal even in the first world.
 
Got 19 out of 20 and got bored, this is a really cool concept though.

I was greatly amused by the fact I would have had to guess on about half of those if they hadn't showed up in World of Warcraft item names, even ones I wouldn't have expected to show up in an MMO like fecundity.
 
Interesting. Is there anything stopping people from just going to dictionary.com though and looking up the words?
 
Kamex said:
Interesting. Is there anything stopping people from just going to dictionary.com though and looking up the words?
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i don't think the concern at all is the amount that they do donate, but rather to just raise awareness in a "fun" manner.
 
V is for....Vespa! said:
i think the vocab level system is kind of fucked up but i donated 680 grains of rice and stopped with a vocab level of 43. losing one level for every word you get wrong but gaining one for about every three is kind of messed up.
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The reason it takes longer to raise your vocab level than to lower it is that the words get harder. And the level cap is 50.
 
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