# Freerice.com!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freerice-com/434939>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 25, 2008, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freerice-com/434939 "2008-01-25T10:40:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Havik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Havik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Havik)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freerice-com/434939/1 "2008-01-25T10:40:04Z")

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Go to it! For every answer you get right, the website donates 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), thus helping people in need of food. It also helps your vocab. Apparently, few get above a vocab score of 48.  
Challenge it!

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**Author:** ![Havik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Havik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Havik)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freerice-com/434939/2 "2008-01-25T10:41:25Z")

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Oh, and FTR, my highest score is 40 for vocab. I’m not that great, really, but I’m really not too bad either, considering my age (19).

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**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freerice-com/434939/3 "2008-01-25T11:33:17Z")

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Highest score? I got bored at 48 and decided to try doing some work instead.

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**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freerice-com/434939/4 "2008-01-25T17:15:41Z")

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I’ve donated 3200 grams of rice, but I’m hovering between 42 and 43 and can’t get past 43. I wonder if I should have admitted that. Owa tagoo sayam.

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**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freerice-com/434939/5 "2008-01-25T17:18:54Z")

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44! Sheesh! Finally. Loser? Me? Noooo.

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**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freerice-com/434939/6 "2008-01-25T17:34:34Z")

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We did a thread about this before. At the time the amounts of rice were really small, like a truckload or two. Do it for fun, but otherwise you could probably earn/contribute more by doing just about anything.

> **[Test your vocabulary for Free Rice](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=441744)**
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> This website will donate 10 grains of rice for every multiple-choice vocabulary identification you get right. This is a good thing. The addicting thing is that every time you get a word right, the next word is harder. Every time you get a word...

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freerice-com/434939/7 "2008-01-25T17:38:33Z")

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I got my 15 year old daughter hooked on this site. Her vocabulary quizzes have been 100 ever since. 😃