I’m quitting at 2000. My vocabulary maxed at 45.
Their definitions are very odd.
I got up to 45. I agree with some other posters that some of the definitions are a bit wonky.
‘Antediluvian’ came up and they offered ‘grouchy’ ‘bewitching’ ‘ancient’ and ‘dull witted’. Of the four, I selected ‘ancient’ because I thought that was closest, and was rewarded with a ‘correct’. But that isn’t what it means. If you take it literally, it means ‘before the flood’. If a flood happened yesterday, anything before it is or was antediluvian. It doesn’t have to be ancient. If you take it in a less literal way, the word is used to refer to the historical period referred to in the fables / legends of the Old Testement before the Great Flood. But something can be ancient without being in this category.
Over the course of 1000 grains, I mostly hovered around level 41-43. It’s a fun game. When I get one wrong and it shows the correct answer, I can often see the connection between the two words. Hopefully I’ll work my way up in the coming days.
I’ve gotten up to 46, but I don’t often stay there.
Though, I agree with the other posters who’ve mentioned that their defintions were off.
Forex: A jennet is not a small horse!
1500, level 43-46.
680 grains so far, at about level 38-41. Waiting for repeats because generally I have a good memory. This will be a good vocabulary builder for a good cause.
I’ll try it, but how much IS 2000 grains of rice? A cup? A pound? A kilo (for our friends north of us and abroad)?
Just curious. Off to take the test.
Got up to 47 once, and then I stopped at 2000 grains. This is probably the most work my 20-odd year old Latin O grade has had in that time.
Similarly, they are approaching 300 million grains since the program started on the 7th October. Anyone have an idea how much that is in convenient units eg truckloads?
I googled it, and there was a wikipedia article that says a grain is 25 milligrams, and another page that said it was 25-28 mg. If it’s 25, then 2000 grains is 50 grams. That’s a twentieth of a kilo, or about a tenth of a pound.
I ran some other numbers above in post #20 based on the total rice count from yesterday, about 260 million vs the current 293 million. It was 14,000 pounds.
I got up to 2090 and got tired of doing it. I bounced between 41 and 47. And some of the definitions are odd. I kept saying to myself–I’lll remember that word and def and post it to show how odd, but I can’t remember them now. It started to repeat toward the end (ones I had already gotten right-another odd thing), so I quit.
The ones I got wrong (mostly) were the names of animals. I also noticed that (like most tests) my first impulse (when I was guessing) was the correct one.
That was quite a brain work out for an early Saturday morning.
Thanks. Not even a truckload then. In other news - woot! 49!
14,000 pounds! (or 7000 kilos, roughly). Good on us–but how many people will that feed? My box of Uncle Ben’s Rice contains either 14 oz(brown) or 32 oz (white)–same size box, which leads to me to conclude that brown rice kernels(?) are larger than white, but I digress. In that size box, I can make about 19 servings from the white, and 7 from the brown. Each serving is estimated to be about one cup.
So, (I suck at math, laugh all you want)-- if 32 oz=19 servings, then one pound of rice = 9 servings (and change). 9 x 14,000=(gets out calculator, hates multiplying zeros) 126,000 servings (and change).
If the rice is brown (much healthier for you) let’s sort of double this (you see why I get into trouble in math. I lack precision and patience). So, (roughly) 16 oz of brown rice = 9 servings. Again, 9 x 14,000= 126,000 people.
I am suspicious of that result. Can someone who is not math challenged help me out? Thanks.
But if they eat rice 3x/day, that cuts it to 126,000/3 = (more calculator-wait, not near enough a light source) 42,000. Still not bad.
:smack: of course doing it by calorie load makes more sense. Now you know why I’m not a research scientist…
Hey, I think we’re making it harder! The FAQ says the “level” is determined by the number of people playing who get a particular word right. And this morning, I can’t break into the upper 40’s at all! Maybe I’m just dumber in the morning, but it seems like some of these words were ranked higher last night.
Another way to look at it is, assume rice is all starch and protein, which means it’s 4 calories per gram. If a grain is 25 mg, then it’s a tenth of a calorie. Each time you answer a question, they give someone one calorie. Not very impressive.
I seem to stay mostly around 43-44, but I’ve gotten up to 46 for a while. I’ll have to try some more once I’ve had coffee.
The definitions are “odd” because they are trying to condense them down to one or two words. My vocab may be only 44, but I figured that out. 
Well, I got about 2800 grains, but I have it as the excuse of doubling as GRE exercises. That was cool.
It strikes me that the wonky definitions are exactly normal for GRE studies, so while I didn’t like them it made me think more. Also, it reminded me to read a bit more carefully through the answers.
Anyway, a good time and such.
They’re not all definitions. Some are synonyms, some are examples, and some are members of the same category. The better rule would be to pick the word most affiliated with the stimulus word.