What if you could help end world hunger and simultaneously increase your vocabulary by simply playing a game?  Now, what if I told you that in order to play that game you didn’t have to buy, pledge, donate, or give away any of your personal information?  Sound too good to be true?  Well, check out FreeRice.com and see what they have to say about all that.  This viral web-based fundraising game developed by John Breen has been able to raise over 1 billion grains of rice (enough rice to feed over 50,000 people for 1 day) by simply having people play a game!  I, for one, have been playing this game for about 30 minutes or so and raised about 2000 grains of rice.  Probably not enough to feed a family but hey, it’s a start.

Sources: BBC News – Web Game Provides Rice for Hungry