For Those of an Etymological Bent...

[Winston001]

Stumble Upon lead me to this site which challenges you to define words and donates rice if you get it right. Quite good fun and I got to Level 46 once......

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

[rainman]

Now that could get to be seriously addictive....

[oldrider]

Stumble Upon lead me to this site which challenges you to define words and donates rice if you get it right. Quite good fun and I got to Level 46 once......

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

How long does it go on for, I had to quit at 1390 grains of rice and I averaged about 35. (total tumbles when you get one wrong)

Actually I amazed myself a few times! Had to think. (lol) John.

[deanohit]

made it to level 37 and donated 200 grains of rice.

Could be fun to see what level you can get to with a dictionary.

[Steam]

It's quite fun, but too easy. Also it's not about etymology, this is just match the definition.

[sAsLEX]

5 years studying latin helps work out some of the more obtuse words funny what comes back out of the dark depths of memory!

[Steam]

Oh yes, it soon gets all etymooological, you got to start working out the words in halves.

EDIT: Holy spit, it soon gets really hard. I stalled at level 46. Impossible!

[Winston001]

Oh yes, it soon gets all etymooological, you got to start working out the words in halves.

EDIT: Holy spit, it soon gets really hard. I stalled at level 46. Impossible!

Yeah know what you mean. I've had it open in a Firefox tab all weekend and so far have donated 5240 grains of rice. My tweenage children like it too. Apparantly it goes to Level 50 but I won't see that. Been to 46 a couple of times.

[Dilligaf]

Well in the FAQs it says it's rare for people to get above 48. Level 50 is the highest.
And I am very grateful that I have learnt 5 languages - certainly makes picking the answers easier.

[Usarka]

i could only get to 18. those africans are going to have to starve if i have anyfink to do with it.