http://freerice.com/index.php

Each word you get right they donate 10 grains of rice (paid for by the advertisers below the box)

That is pretty interesting; I don't know if it's real but it was entertaining. I got to level 42 before I encountered words I had no freaking clue what they meant :D Cool link :)

Best I could do in about a 15 minute stint was level 48 before I missed a couple of times and went back down. The word difficulty seemed only tangentially related to level, however; once you got above about level 42 there didn't seem to be much difference between those and the level 46-48 words (although the L 40 or so words were noticibly easier).

Regards,
Nydia

Someone sent me this... I don't have the link to the actual article.


BBC NEWS



Web game provides rice for hungry

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The WFP says hunger is the world's number one emergency


An internet word game has generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has said.

The game, FreeRice, tests the vocabulary of participants. For each click on a correct answer, the website donates money to buy 10 grains of rice.

Companies advertising on the website provide the money to the WFP to buy and distribute the rice.

FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1bn grains of rice.

That is enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the WFP said on Friday.

'Viral marketing'

The head of the WFP, Josette Sheeran, said: "FreeRice really hits home how the web can be harnessed to raise awareness and funds for he world's number one emergency."

She said word of the game has spread with the help of internet bloggers and websites like Facebook and YouTube.

"The site is a viral marketing success story."

FreeRice is the invention of US online fundraising pioneer John Breen.