FreeRice is a website where users play various educational, multiple-choice games in order to raise money to fight world hunger. The games include English vocabulary (the game the site began with), multiplication tables, pre-algebra, chemistry (basic and intermediate), English grammar, basic foreign language vocabulary for English speakers (French, German, Italian, and Spanish), geography (world capitals and country identification), and art. Although English vocabulary is the original and default subject, players may choose from different subjects; including mathematics, chemistry, geography, art, and foreign languages (French, Spanish, Italian, and German).

The maximum level of difficulty varies between subjects. In exchange for advertisements on the website, various sponsors donate the money necessary to pay for the rice and other costs to run FreeRice. The donations are distributed by the United Nations's World Food Programme (WFP), starting with Bangladesh.

FreeRice's partner is the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. The most common countries to transport rice to are: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Bhutan, Uganda, and Nepal, even though it can travel all over the world (as of early 2008). By this time, the site's creator had given over US$213,000 to the WFP which encourages people to visit freerice.com.

On 20 November, the WFP launched a campaign to "feed a child for Thanksgiving."

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