free rice

This was on our local news the other night and its an easy way to donate to help reduce world hunger. I figured I'd give it a try and found out I know the meaning of words I never or seldom use.
A word is presented with multiple choice answers. Every time you get it correct 20 grains of rice are donated. Doesn't sound like much but it takes only a few minutes to donate one or two thousand grains and the payback has been significant with the number of people accessing the site. Its being promoted in schools to help build vocabulary and has built mine. Who knew that a howdah was a seat on an elephant?

http://freerice.com/index.php

Where the rice goes http://www.wfp.org/english/?n=681

Yeah, I've seen this site a few months ago. Every little bit (of starch) helps, I suppose,
gb

Yup, this site has been around for a little while now. I saw it featured on the news a few months ago, and it was just on another national new cast last week.

okay, i got about 1000 grains of rice before i was totally baffled.

really? free?

It is donated by the sponsors whose ads you'll see at the bottom.
I just make it a point to go open it a few times a day and it doesn't take long to donate a thousand grains or more.

i got up to 1500 grains with a vocab of 44 before i really got stumped, you can always use dictionary.com if you want to learn the word you are stumped on. that way not only are you donating rice but improving your vocabulary

If you have a website,go here
http://http://freerice.com/banners.html
To add a banner for them.