Its for the hungry

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:24 pm

You play this easy game and win rice for the hungry

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

I'm up to 810 grains of rice.

Edit: 1000 I have been playing off and on and I'm done for the night

benol · Post by **benol** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:03 pm

700. I just started

EDIT: Woot! 1000.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:40 pm

How real is this? The UN is going to donate rice for answering easy questions online???

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:03 pm

I'm up to 2000 grains of rice and a 23 vocab level.

benol · Post by **benol** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:50 pm

gamemasterAS wrote:I'm up to 2000 grains of rice and a 23 vocab level.

I got there with 26.

I was around 30 for a while.

Adam G · Post by **Adam G** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:42 pm

I'm going to start now, it looks cool...where did they get the idea of donating rice?

Someone needs to make a bot for it...
*Pokes Skyler*

Shadeslayer · Post by **Shadeslayer** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:21 pm

Adam G wrote:where did they get the idea of donating rice?

In many many countries, rice is the main food source. Mostly in China, Japan, Korea, and Philippians. They eat it just as much as we eat bread. Almost with every meal.

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:25 pm

They have ads at the bottom, they get people to go to the site, ad company pays them, they buy rice.

Pretty good idea, and it even looks like its NOT a scam. So at the same time the impoverished are getting food, and the people getting quizzed get a bit smarter.

Post by **Skyone** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:30 pm

Adam G wrote:Someone needs to make a bot for it...
*Pokes Skyler*

You know what's sad? I actually thought about it when I was playing.

I'm up to 3400 now, gonna take a break. Pretty cool though!

Adam G · Post by **Adam G** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:14 am

Skyone wrote:You know what's sad? I actually thought about it when I was playing.

I'm up to 3400 now, gonna take a break. Pretty cool though!

I thought about it...seems like it would take a few things. Maybe a GM script to lookup the term on a popular website and the bot to look through the output page for terms specified by the quiz.

I tried as far as...
Javascript:Alert(donatedAmount=xxx);
...but, FALE...

Post by **Skyone** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:26 am

Eh honestly it's best not to cheat anyways. It's not like we would gain anything out of cheating anyways.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:08 am

If you think about it, 1000 grains of rice is probably enough to fill a desert spoon, 1000 grains sounds a lot but is very little. Think how many grains there are in a 1kg box - millions!

illustriouschin · Post by **illustriouschin** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:22 am

this game is retarded, why not just give them all of the rice now instead and cut out the middleman. or how about, you just give poor people rice yourself, 800grams? you got to be kidding me you probably ate more than that in the past 5 minutes you should be ashamed of yourselves, tossing scraps to poor people for entertainment.

illustriouschin · Post by **illustriouschin** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:26 am

bacteria wrote:If you think about it, 1000 grains of rice is probably enough to fill a desert spoon, 1000 grains sounds a lot but is very little. Think how many grains there are in a 1kg box - millions!

nice joke, go pour a couple more "desert spoon" fulls of glue onto your broken iPaq with AA batteries.

benol · Post by **benol** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:12 am

illustriouschin wrote:
bacteria wrote:If you think about it, 1000 grains of rice is probably enough to fill a desert spoon, 1000 grains sounds a lot but is very little. Think how many grains there are in a 1kg box - millions!
nice joke, go pour a couple more "desert spoon" fulls of glue onto your broken iPaq with AA batteries.

That was a retarded waste of a post. Joke? Are you referring to the fact he misspelled dessert as desert? (Which might I add, got a chuckle out of me) Mistakes are not jokes. If they were, then the quoted below *******ization of the English language you made would be the most hilarious joke of them all.

illustriouschin wrote: this game is retarded, why not just give them all of the rice now instead and cut out the middleman. or how about, you just give poor people rice yourself, 800grams? you got to be kidding me you probably ate more than that in the past 5 minutes you should be ashamed of yourselves, tossing scraps to poor people for entertainment.

Is your shift key broken?