I'm enjoying FreeRice.com, but...

[jan_andrea]

I just looked it up and it takes roughly 29,000 grains of long white rice to make a pound.

So in playing for about 30 minutes (with a top vocab level of 47 but a median of closer to 43, out of 50), I've donated 4,000 grains... or about 1/7 of a pound.

Also, in Googling it, I found this page: http://debrisblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/free-rice-or-free-publicity/

I'll still play, but will give to the World Food Programme in dollars as well as vocab, since the former will go a lot further.

Comments

[dnl2002.livejournal.com]

According to freerice.com's totals page (http://freerice.com/totals.html), from October 7th to yesterday, they've donated 3,664,079,450 grains of rice. So using the 29,000 per pound, that's roughly 126,347.5 pounds. So that's an average of 2578.5 pounds a day since the page started.

Here's their FAQ page: http://freerice.com/faq.html