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Title: Vocabulary and world hunger
Post by: Diane CBPFC on November 18, 2007, 12:53:55 AM

Help both here:
www.freerice.com
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Title: Re: Vocabulary and world hunger
Post by: Vulture on November 18, 2007, 06:41:39 AM

Thanks for that, Diane (I think!!!). I thought I was fairly well-read but it took me 30 minutes just to get 640g of rice!

I'll try again when I've have a coffee and woken up properly.

Title: Re: Vocabulary and world hunger
Post by: peter on November 18, 2007, 11:35:54 AM

Quote from: Vulture on November 18, 2007, 06:41:39 AM

Thanks for that, Diane (I think!!!). I thought I was fairly well-read but it took me 30 minutes just to get 640g of rice!

I'll try again when I've have a coffee and woken up properly.

at least they tell you how to spell the answers

Title: Re: Vocabulary and world hunger
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on November 18, 2007, 12:19:14 PM

Nice idea, Diane. I've bookmarked it and am going to try to aim for a 1,000 grains per day (just done the first lot). It's a far more productive way of spending a coffee break than sudoku.

Title: Re: Vocabulary and world hunger
Post by: Diane CBPFC on November 18, 2007, 03:59:06 PM

I like this game - it is fast to load on dial-up service. But I wonder how many grains of rice are in an average meal.

Title: Re: Vocabulary and world hunger
Post by: Vulture on November 18, 2007, 04:15:46 PM

Quote from: Diane CBPFC on November 18, 2007, 03:59:06 PM

I like this game - it is fast to load on dial-up service. But I wonder how many grains of rice are in an average meal.

I have a sneaky feeling that rice is the only component of a meal in most of these countries. Here, rice accompanies vegetables and meat of some sort, and would be half a cup / approximately 100 - 150 g dry-weight per serving.   :(

Title: Re: Vocabulary and world hunger
Post by: Diamond Lil on November 18, 2007, 08:28:18 PM

good game, Diane...thanks!

Title: Re: Vocabulary and world hunger
Post by: Roger Kettle on November 18, 2007, 09:08:59 PM

Excellent, Diane. A far from frigorific experience.

Title: Re: Vocabulary and world hunger
Post by: Joan on November 20, 2007, 02:41:12 AM

Great find, Diane.  I tend to become addicted to these things, but at least with this one I'm hopefully doing some good!  BTW, if you play long enough, some words are repeated. Not convinced they give the same options, though.

Further to my tendency to become addicted to computer games, etc ... thanks a bunch to whoever posted this link some time ago now:

www.jigzone.com (http://www.jigzone.com)

Being on the computer has become a torture for me as I try to resist just to do one more!!  I really should get someone else to block it on the router for me (and change the password), but that means 'fessing up to my addiction.  ;D

Title: Re: Vocabulary and world hunger
Post by: peter on November 20, 2007, 09:28:50 AM

Quote from: Joan on November 20, 2007, 02:41:12 AM

Great find, Diane.  I tend to become addicted to these things, but at least with this one I'm hopefully doing some good!  BTW, if you play long enough, some words are repeated. Not convinced they give the same options, though.

Further to my tendency to become addicted to computer games, etc ... thanks a bunch to whoever posted this link some time ago now:

www.jigzone.com (http://www.jigzone.com)

Being on the computer has become a torture for me as I try to resist just to do one more!!  I really should get someone else to block it on the router for me (and change the password), but that means 'fessing up to my addiction.  ;D

Always do my daily jig saw don't know how people can do it  so fast.