Free Rice

Now you can play the most addicting vocabulary game in the world and help donate rice to the hungry at the same time. For every word you can define correctly, 20 grains of rice are donated courtesy of the site’s advertisers.

The maximum level you can attain is 50. Getting over 40 is quite doable for anyone with a decent vocabulary as the levels jump up quickly at first. Once you get over 42 or 43, it takes a lot of words to move up one level. It gets exponentially harder to move up a step as your score increases, and the words get much harder as you go. Miss a word and your score drops.

I have no idea how much this equals in real terms, but all the various players helped donate 7 billion grains of rice in December. It’s a brilliant achievement in just three months.

Visuwords – online graphical dictionary and thesaurus

Now visual thinkers and learners have a dictionary just for them! Visuwords is so cool it defies description. Instead of typing in a word and getting a definition or some synonyms, Visuwords shows words and concepts related to your keyword in graphical form. You have to see it to believe it.

You may have to scroll down a little to see the key to the colors and arrows, but it’s quite intuitive without it.