Aspies For Freedom

Someone posted this link to the enneagram forum I participate in.  So far, I'm the top scorer over there.  

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

Wow, that was many grains of rice!

Fun For 500 grains.

5000 grains *sigh* where do find the scores? and how high can your vocab score get?

I got 10700 but started seeing some of the questions repeated.

I got to level 50 and 10,000 grains. I now have a headache and should be asleep - it is 1:35am. Addictive!

Hey Tigger--Thanks!  I was curious how high the score would go but haven't the patience to find out.  I went to 2000 grains, hitting score 46, with 47 highest hit.
I'm tied with someone else on the forum (another 5) as being the highest--but you've beat us both!!!!

This is hard when English isn't your first language... although I can guess pretty good so it seems...

I just saw that there was a warning on that site: "warning: this game can make you smarter". I don't get why that's there, what's so bad about that?

Okay, this is reallyyy addictive. Thanks for the link!  Alas, I never got above level 44 and seemed to hover between 38 - 42 most the time.  I used to think I had a good vocabulary.  Perhaps I'll have a better one now.

I didn't post to boast, honestly!

It helped that I studied French, German, Spanish and Latin at school, and Irish at home so I had exposure to a lot of the 'parent' words so could deduce the meanings of words that were otherwise unfamiliar. Also the site seems to have a fixation on Mediæval Armour, which was a special interest of mine about forty years ago!

LOL! I think your score is GREAT!  I posted on the other forum that someone on the aspie forum had scored what you did.

I used Greek and Latin to help me with some of the words.  Us oldies might have had more classical educations.

Yep. I took a few years of Latin in my youth.  Dad thought it would be a good background for medical school. People teased me for taking a "dead language" but it helped me a lot in later years during vocabulary tests (including job interviews).  I could figure out many words by their Latin roots.

That was decades ago though.  I've forgotten much.  What a wonderfully rich base you have to draw upon Tigger!

eh?! Does that mean people with classical educations is an "oldie"? Hope not.

I got about 3600 grains of rice and did quite well at guessing words from Latin and Greek origins too. But then I got kind of sick of clicking just one word at a time and had a headache so I gave up.

(I think my score wavered from 39-44)

I finally got to level 46 and donated enough rice to feed Bangladesh to get there.  Dunno how many hours.  I will not rest until i reach level 47 !! Well, maybe rest would be a good idea. My Siginficant Other has given me a "stop rule" on how many grains I can donate per day cuz I'm obsessing.  I made a list of 475 words to memorize.  They do have some strange ones; medieval weapons, medical, geological, geometrical and archaic words.

My friend was delighted to hear this news story about the game on public radio this morning.  The guy who created it lives near me.  I'm glad to hear it is not a hoax.  

Here is the link to listen to the 4 minute interview:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...d=17307572