Free Rice- It really works!

Most of you have seen the Internet phenomenon "free rice" by now. Not only does it teach new vocabulary, but it actually donating rice to needy countries.

By learning new vocabulary, users earn grains of rice as points. When you get the correct answer, you get the sponsors of the Free Rice site donate 20 grains of rice

John Breen, game inventor, set it up so that the rice is distributed through the UN’s World Food

Program. As of April 14th 2008 almost 26.5 TRILLION grains of rice were donated to needy countries. Click here to see a short video how free rice reaches Bangladesh.

Now don't think this is all easy stuff- the vocabulary is set up with 45 levels of difficulty and new words are being added all the time in order to make it challenging or easier. The site states that they are on the hunt to find the hairiest and most difficult words in the English language! They are also looking to add easy words, medium words and all the other words you might ever want to know. In short, they do not want you to run out of vocabulary to learn anytime soon... :)

So- play on! Enjoy the game. You can always click on the new FREE RICE picture on the left side!