Free Rice
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Overview
Free Rice was created by John Breen and launched on October 7, 2007. It is owned by The World Food Programme.
According to Wikipedia, "Freerice is an ad-supported, free-to-play website that allows players to donate to charities by playing multiple-choice quiz games. For every question the user answers correctly, 10 grains of rice are donated via the World Food Programme. The available subjects include English vocabulary (the original subject with which the game launched), multiplication tables, pre-algebra, chemical symbols (basic and intermediate), English grammar, SAT, foreign language vocabulary for English speakers (French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish), human anatomy, geography (flags of the world, world capitals, country identification, and world landmarks), the identification of famous artwork, literature, quotations, and world hunger. A user's total score is displayed as a mound of rice and the number of grains."[1]
Free Rice remains an active Internet-based webpage. As of January 2017, its Alexa rank was a little under 42,000. During the summer of 2017, Free Rice received some updates. Again, according to Wikipedia, "On July 31st, 2017, Freerice announced on their official Facebook page that they will be rebuilding Freerice to make the webgame more user-friendly on mobile. They also changed their logo and color scheme, suggesting big changes for the user interface. Although the release date of the newest build of Freerice is not known, the developers have stated multiple times that it should be available to play Fall of 2017."
Today, Free Rice can be used by single individual players as well as groups. Together, groups can track the amount of rice grains they have contributed through the World Food Programme charity.
See also
Free Rice is owned by The World Food Programme.[2] According to Wikipedia, "The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security."
References
This YouTube video about Free Rice traces the background and purpose of the website.[3]
External Links
Free Rice can be found at http://www.freerice.com.
