Let Them Eat Rice

Shouldn't come as anything new that a favourite category of games for us would be mini-games. Tetris tops the list as it's short and quick, then there's all other sorts, from those found on Popcap or Shockwave or Yahoo! or MSN games (not all appeal to us though) to Gameboy/DS minigames.

The appeal we find lies in that these games don't require time and dedication, just a quick pick-up-put-down approach to it with the replayability (if it matters) being in beating your personal high score. Or just because of that good ol' "One More Turn" Syndrome.

Given the abundance of minigames about, there are some word games that catch our attention for a good long while. There's Text Twist (which is good practise for Boggle), Typer Shark (which is rather good for speeding up your typing), Bogglific and Scrabulous (where nowadays our games doesn't seem to be those casual 'play-the-first-word-you-can-make' but rather a lot of thinking is now needed) on Facebook, and now...Free Rice.

While we first came across this on Facebook, the application wasn't as comprehensive as that on Free Rice's actual webpage. Interest for this only returned when we saw RoB playing this at Mages. He was somewhere on level 42 when we started watching, and egads we barely could work out some of the words!

So. Free Rice. Choose the correct definition of a word, and donate some 20 grains of rice each time. To keep it simple, we tell people that the rice will be donated by the UN (you can always read up the actual process, it's on the site itself).