Thursday, November 15, 2007
Play, learn, wordsmith and feed
So simple and so much fun. Gather food for people who really need, all the while sitting at your computer and exercising your linguistic muscles. What could be better?! The hunger initiative, www.poverty.com, has set up a Play and Help game (h/t Cornwall Yarn Shop). Click this link or click on the green "Free Rice" button over there on my sidebar to read about it and/or to play. For every word you define correctly(according to their occasionally odd definitions, anyway), 10 grains of rice is donated. It seems implausible that 10 grains of rice would make any difference but if you read the information they provide, you learn that it does. This play-and-help began in early October of this year yet already there have been over 2 billion grains donated by people all over the world playing this game. I have no idea how many grains of rice makes a serving that staves off hunger, but if you're like me, you'll find the game so addictive that you'll personally account for a huge donation, a few thousand before you even realize it. I must say that some of the words are a tad obscure ('tad' meaning possibly unheard of) and some so-called correct answers must be the eighty-ninth alternate meanings, but there's no SAT or Regents score riding on your score, so it's just plain a whole lot of fun. And what a great idea!
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