Tired eyes, go to sleep

[firstcrusader]

This game is pretty sweet--it's a challenging little vocab game, and for every word you get right, a sponsor donates ten grains of rice to the U.N. World Food program. Granted, ten grains of rice is pretty insignificant, but it's still a pretty neat idea.

Also, one of these years I'll get around to posting a general life update. Suffice it to say

Comments

[jadesfire55]

That is fun, and addictive. I got to 500 and decided I should go to bed.

[firstcrusader]

Yeah, I didn't realize how challenging it would be. They get pretty tough, especially without any context.

[jadesfire55]

I was surprised how many I got right, without any context.

[flint_the_dwarf]

You have a general life?

[firstcrusader]

Yeah, my life's pretty non-specific sometimes.

[kthulhu]

I've donated probably 2500 grains during the last two shifts at work.

[firstcrusader]

Yeah, my immediate thought was, "this would be great for work!" This looks like the perfect 5-minute break activity.

[flint_the_dwarf]

Now that I've played, it seems like someone could easily run a script to just end world hunger.

I'm also pretty much dominating this. After like 40-50 words, I've only missed two. Even without context, you can break down a lot of the words.

[_ithaqua_]

The generally high level of difficulty makes me feel like they don't want to give that much rice away.

[firstcrusader]

Or they're trying to make it challenging enough that people will stay for more than a few minutes. I mean, there are breast cancer awareness "Click on this link at least 1x/day!" sites, but there's no real reason to go there other than for the sake of clicking on the link.