FreeRice.com - Making GRE Prep Bearable
Imagine if you could play a fun game that would teach you vocabulary while providing food for hungry people around the world for every word you guess right. Let’s cut to the chase - there’s no imagination necessary because you can do just that at FreeRice.com!
This is a beautifully innovative website that personalizes the difficulty for you with each question you answer. It contains vocabulary advanced enough to help prep someone for the SAT, GRE, or LSAT, while also being able to provide a fair challenge for people new to English.
I was planning on prepping zero for the vocab section of the GRE (unacceptable opportunity cost). Sitting alone with a static-text book learning vocab you’ll rarely use just to prove you have the cognitive discipline to memorize a bunch of jargon? Screw that. Make it a fun and addictive game, and give my winnings to starving people while you’re at it, now you’ve got my attention! It almost sounds too good to be true, but check it out and you’ll see for yourself - FreeRice.com
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I was playing this and thinking: it would be pretty easy to write a program that looks up the word in question in an online dictionary, searches all the candidates in the dictionary entry, and finds the one that matches. It might bankrupt the UN in a day …
True, that is a vulnerability of the site they’ve addressed in their FAQ:
Q: Couldn’t I just write a computer program to play all day and give a lot of rice that way?
A: There are two problems with this. First, it overloads our servers so that real people can’t play and learn vocabulary. Second, without real people playing and buying products, it is no longer cost-effective for companies to advertise. Without advertising, we cannot give any rice at all.