Created Fri 16th Jan 5:36pm PST by

deanthoreau

Will FreeRice.com surpass 62,000,000,000 in grains of rice donated by March 1, 2009?

Settled as No

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

Background:

Background: WWW.FreeRice.com is a website that is in partnership with the United Nations World Food Program and Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. On the website any individual may play a variety of vocabulary, art, Chemistry, English Grammar, Spanish, German, Italian, French language, and Math games. For each answer a player get right 20 grains of rice are donated to the UN World Food Program. As of December1, 2008 52,797,910,630 grains of rice have been donated since the inception of the web site.

Prior monthly donation totals have been:
SEPTEMBER 2008 3,149,870,660
OCTOBER 2008 3,739,408,120
NOVEMBER 2008 3,678,546,760

For more information on monthly totals you can go to: Free Rice
And of course you can always play on FreeRice.com to boost the rice donations; and boost your potential of winning your HubDub prediction.

Settlement details:As reported by FreeRice.com on their Totals page of all grains of rice donated from date of website inception thru the end of February 2009.
Usually the total appears at 8am est Therefore the actual total up to an including February 2009 will be avaialable on their website at 8am est, March 2009

Forecast history %

Yes

99%

Settled as No on Sun 1st Mar 1:39pm PST

Activity: H$103,796
Predictions: 90
Comments: 5

Suspend date: Thu 26th Feb 11:59pm PST
Settlement date: Sun 1st Mar 1:39pm PST
Prediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Thu 26th Feb 11:59pm PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled

Initial likelihoods: Yes: 50%

Action history:

Created Fri 16th Jan 5:36pm PST by

deanthoreau

Changed Description Mon 19th Jan 6:03am PST by

nigeleccles [Admin]

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... and Berkman Center for Internet & & Society at Harvard University. On ... inception of the web site~~. <~~. Prior monthly donation ... 2008 3,149,870,660 < OCTOBER 2008 3,739,408,120 < NOVEMBER 2008 3,678,546,760 < For more information ... ="http://www.freerice.com/totals.php">~~www.freerice.com/totals~~Free Rice</a~~> <~~> And of course you

Suspended Thu 26th Feb 11:59pm PST : Suspend date reached

Settlement requested Sun 1st Mar 8:41am PST by

gtown

: No

Total including Feb 28 is 60,277,492,980:

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

Settled as 'No' Sun 1st Mar 1:39pm PST by

nigeleccles [Admin]

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

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Predictions (90)

38 weeks ago

tgallag2 Level 13, Psychic (H$55,920)

predicted No (H$10 at 99%)

38 weeks ago

cheesenips Level 16, Oracle (H$562,783)

predicted No (H$5,000 at 98%)

38 weeks ago

cheesenips Level 16, Oracle (H$562,783)

predicted No (H$5,000 at 98%)

38 weeks ago

madbuns Level 12, Guru (H$48,393)

predicted No (H$20 at 98%)

38 weeks ago

madbuns Level 12, Guru (H$48,393)

predicted No (H$20 at 98%)

Comments (5)

emmag

Dean, thank you for posting this. I've played it and contributed a lot of grains of rice! Hope others do, too.

posted 44 weeks ago

capecodviking [Power User]

I've been trying to donate a thousand grains a day ever since the first one of these that I saw you had posted here, dean. I play scrabble a lot, and I can always use some more words.

posted 43 weeks ago

emmag

This reminds me of studying for the GRE!

posted 43 weeks ago

cheesenips Level 16, Oracle (H$562,783)

Thanks dean, I have also enjoyed playing the FreeRice game. I also emailed the game's link to my elderly father. He likes games that don't require fast clicking.

posted 43 weeks ago

deanthoreau

i love playing freerice.com and by the way if u have kids it is great for them....we have form 3rd grade up playing it at our school..the kids love it..practice their multiplication tables, spanish..all sorts of good stuff...

posted 43 weeks ago

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