How to earn at least 100,000 grains of rice at freerice.com in 2010.
How I did it: I began this goal on February 25, 2010 and finished November 29, 2010. My ending total was 100,720 grains. The problems began about June and lasted through September. During this time they kept wiping out your total earnings each time you played. Fortunately I'd been keeping my own log. Once the transition was finished, there were new problems to contend with. Freerice.com went from using cookies to remember your earnings to having you sign in each time; you could no longer just go to the site and start playing if you wanted the program to keep track of your earnings. Even more time was used up because they would set your level on categories such as Vocabulary back to 1 each time you signed on, and changing the level was a very slow process. In the time it took to sign on and set your level one could have earned 500 grains or so in the original version. In the past when you missed a question it would come up again. Now you are given the same question multiple times whether or not you had missed it the first time. All in all, it went from being a fun way to help ease world hunger to a royal pain. I doubt I'll set this as a goal again, even though it is a worthy cause.
Lessons & tips: I liked to change categories regularly to keep it from getting too boring. I thought this was an ideal way to keep fresh on a foreign language (Italian for me), and I learned a lot of geography from this game as well.
