Frequently Asked Questions

Freerice is an educational trivia game that helps you get smarter while making a difference for people around the world. Every question you answer correctly raises 10 grains of rice for the World Food Programme (WFP) to support its work saving and changing lives around the world. 

Private sponsors match the rice grain donations generated within Freerice, triggering a financial payment to WFP. This money goes into the pot of "greatest needs" to support the organization's ongoing emergencies. 100% of all funds generated via Freerice go to the World Food Programme. Freerice does not earn or keep any money it raises. 

Thousands of students use Freerice every day for virtual volunteering and community service hours. We are a very small team, so we are not able to individually verify players, but you can download this volunteer certificate and fill it out yourself to acknowledge your rice grains.

Rice is a metaphor used to make the game tangible for players. Although some rice is indeed purchased as part of WFP’s food assistance programs, the funds generated through the game support WFP’s programs overall, where needs are greatest, not specifically the purchasing of rice. Every right answer on the game generates the equivalent of ten grains of rice as payment towards the United Nations World Food Programme’s operations in over 80 countries around the world.

All funds generated via Freerice go to support the UN World Food Programme's lifesaving work around the world. The donations are used as flexible funding to respond to urgent emergencies in countries like Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Ukraine, but we cannot track exactly where they go on a daily basis. 

Yes, you can play Freerice with or without an account. If you answer questions and are not logged in, your rice grains are still being counted through our website — you just won't be able to keep track of them over time. The best way to use Freerice is to create an account so you can track your rice grains.

Please send us an email and let us know what the problem is so we can fix it in the game.

You may have noticed that we recently removed the Freerice app in the App Store & Google Play Store, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. 98% of our players play Freerice on desktop, so we made a decision to focus our resources on the responsive web app. You can still play the game on desktop or your mobile phone by entering www.freerice.com in your browser! We appreciate your understanding and hope to bring the apps back in the future.

Freerice was created in October 2007 by John Breen, a computer programmer, to help his son study for the SAT exam. In 2009 he donated the site to WFP in order to help feed and educate as many people as possible throughout the world.

We have removed all commercial ads in Freerice and have a new funding mechanism in the platform. Private sponsors now match the rice grains earned in the game. Every question you answer correctly earns 10 grains of rice, triggering a financial payment to WFP. The donations generated through Freerice help support WFP's work in emergencies around the world.

We're always looking for volunteers to share their knowledge and help us add more questions to Freerice. Please send an email to wfp.freerice@wfp.org and let us know a little bit about you, your area of expertise and what questions you would like to contribute to the game.

Anyone can create a group in Freerice, you just have to be logged in. Visit the Groups page and enter a group name, then "Make new group".

Yes, you can join and create as many Freerice groups as you'd like.

There is currently no way to restrict categories on Freerice, but we're looking into this.

Currently there is no way for a group admin to remove a player from a group, but we can help. Please send us an email and include the player's username so we can look into this for you.

You can manually generate a new group code by clicking on "Edit my group" and then "Refresh group code".