Ganked from noah_brand…
Free Rice allows you to test your vocab skills and give away free rice.
For every right answer, 10 grains of rice are donated to combat world hunger.
I don’t do well with the language side of things but I was able to keep my vocab skill between 38-42. After about 30, I am guessing at about half of the ones I get right. Of the ones I know it is more because I have see the question word and the answer word in the same context, not that I know specifically what they each mean. But that still means that my vocab is doing pretty well considering how poor my English skills are (I am a pervy Math fancier after all).
I averaged around a 43.
Some of the questions were easy if you understand word-forms. When it’s obviously an adjective, and there’s only one adjective in the list…
Some of the questions were worthy of “Says You.”
Thanks for the link, I was at 42 myself after a hundred.
huh…fun, went to 1000, averaged around a 45, high point of 48.
mind you, thinking it over, 1000 grains, not words–realized on the way home from work that I had forgotten to clarify that.
something about a ride home waiting for me downstairs…*grin*
Nifty link. After 720 grains of rice, I bounced between 39 and 44 rating. Plus, somebody gets to eat tonight (or, rather, in an unstated amount of time in the future).
Neat link! I got a 45 score and donated 500 grains of rice. I’ll have to go back for more.
I donated about 1300 grains of rice. Final score before I got too many oddball words in a row and frustrated was 45. Some of their words are very odd, others I only know because I read historic fiction. I’ve never heard “pannikin” before!
I donated 1600 grains of rice. I averaged 45 in the first several rounds, and by the time I got above 1500 grains, I was averaging 41.
Interesting list, they had a lot of groups of regional slang. I identified Australia, Scotland, Ireland, and England. I couldn’t separate the French words by region.
Sparrow
One thing to consider: they start repeating words eventually. I got up to, I dunno, 1700 grains of rice, maybe more, and I saw some words twice. So,if you keep playing, you’ll eventually learn more and more of their word pool.