Comments on: Play a Game to Feed Some People

By: Foseptik Temizleme

Foseptik Temizleme — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:14:04 +0000

What would make this awesome is if it enlarged into some Superbowl of Vocabulary complete with prizes, funky uniforms and video I can watch. Give us geeks some rewards, toss in a few lusty cheerleaders, and then I’m in.

By: jenny

jenny — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:22:09 +0000

I’m sure there are similar games out there, but I don’t know of any offhand. We could use a directory of these types of social good games, though.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:03:17 +0000

This is great!! Is there anything else out there like this that is also legit?

By: Giovanna

Giovanna — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:15:30 +0000

What an awesome concept. I tried it out and was able to donate 200 grains of rice. It isn’t much but the idea has great merit.

By: Carol

Carol — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:46:23 +0000

It is encouraging to see the rice # updated. I might be a wet blanket, but I don’t have enough fun enlarging my vocabulary to justify my time with this and rice is so F-ing cheap, you’ve gotta show more rice donated to make me feel like it’s doing good.

By: terry

terry — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:52:05 +0000

The internets report that there are anywhere from 1000 to 10000 grains of rice in a cup. Of course it matters if it's long grain or short grain. And this answers why/how they upped the grain amount.

By: Ada Kerman

Ada Kerman — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:29:53 +0000

I saw this game mentioned in a couple other people’s blogs. I enjoy this a lot, although I spend most of my time at the same vocabulary levels, so I’m starting to learn some of the answers by rote. Correct answers used to get 10 grains of rice each; I guess after 7 weeks in operation the game designers had enough financial info that they figured they could change that to 20 grains.

This makes me wonder… how many grains of rice does it take to make one bowl of cooked rice?