How can we address world hunger? Give out FREE RICE!
Youtube video about the online game FREE RICE:
Before launching this blog, I shared FREE RICE with friends at work. Now, over a year later, I am compelled to share it here as well. Apologies for the delay.
FREE RICE is a game website that rewards your smarts by donating food to the needy, like some kind of mash-up between Trivial Pursuit and Sally Struthers. At launch time, the only game to play was a simple (FUN!!) vocabulary game. Now there are a number of subjects to dive into, if you don’t think it pays to enrich your word power.
And this is no small-time venture. Check the numbers:
(image courtesy: http://www.freerice.com/totals.php)
Playing games allows you to have new experiences; take on new personas. Be a professional athelete, a secret agent or an ever-growing sphere of strangely magnetized objects (Beautiful Katamari).
Or how about taking on the role of humanitarian?
You’re gonna play SOMETHING today instead of working. So ditch MINESWEEPER for a while and go play FREE RICE. Feed your mind and feed the world.
What a great game! How in the world did you find something like that?
I have smart friends!