Another time-waster

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

Addictive to the wordy people. "Small Latin and less Greek" will help.

Not sure it helps the Third World, but it passed a few idle minutes.

 

I was playing with that earlier then the fucker started taking ages to
load - now I know why! Damn UKRM and its band width sucking
capabilities.

 

Right they've got 5000 plus grains of rice out of me and I still can't
get to vocab level 47. Just one more try...

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Lady Nina typed:

I managed 3000 grains, and then had to go out. My vocab level got up to 50
several times, but every time you get one wrong you seem to go back one
level, whereas it seems to take several right answers to go up one. The
higher you get, the more arcane the words are, but a good knowledge of Latin
and Greek roots lets you have a stab at most.

Not as addictive as the star game, I have to admit.

 

One wrong, back one, 3 right, up one. I was a steady 46, dip to 45,
back to 46, dip to 45 repeat. Haven't gone back to it, I'm meant to be
working.

Yes, though Latin O level was a long time ago.

Star game you can only play once though, this keeps you coming back.

 

Got up to 600-odd before getting bored. Rating 49.