Free rice game

[undyingking]

If you haven't already seen this, you might like to give it a go -- not just because of the free rice aspect, but because it's a fun and well-designed game.

Get three in a row right and you go up a level -- get one wrong and you go down a level. At higher levels you get asked more difficult words, difficulty being assessed by the proportion of previous contestants who've got them wrong.

50 is the highest level, so if you can stay there for any length of time, you're doing pretty well. My longest run at 50 was 4 words. Beat that if you dare!

And you'll learn lots of interesting (but, for the most part, practically useless) words.

(Thanks to watervole for pointing me at it!)

Comments

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Do I get bonus points for noticing that they've spelt minuscule incorrectly as miniscule?

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Stay at 50? I couldn't even reach it.

Made 48 a few times, but that seems to be my limit. Even getting that far involved having no idea about most of the words but being able to eliminate the wrong answers because the word had the wrong ending (eg. had to be a person and the other three options were adjectives).

curses!

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

I managed some long runs on 49, but never hit 50. God's teeth, though, I know some profoudly pointless words.

[hatmandu.livejournal.com]

Love it! Just managed half a dozen at 50, but it took a while to get there.

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

In 1280 grains of rice, I haven't got above 47 yet. I feel thick.

[chilledchimp.livejournal.com]

It's way too late to keep playing, but it is fun. Managed 46, but didn't play for long. I'll try again at a more civilised hour.

[jackfirecat.livejournal.com]

I haven't got to 50, but I did laugh when anacoluthon came up.

[crowleycrow.livejournal.com]

3 at 50, then back down.

I wish they'd tell you how many grains makes a pound -- we could figure out whether they've already earned a pound bag, a bushel, or a truckload.