12 Addictive Websites You Won’t Be Able To Leave

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Freerice

Learn vocabulary and feed the hungry. Freerice.com is a vocabulary quiz site. For every right answer you select, they give 10 grains of rice to the hungry. Get all the way to level 60 and learn what anergy, mammock, and solation mean.

Geoguessr

Explore the world and test your geography knowledge at the same time. GeoGuessr is a game where you guess the location of a picture using a world map. The closer you are to the location, the more points you get. At the end of five rounds you find out your total score.

Mentalfloss

Mental_floss is full of random trivia knowledge you could never dream of knowing. Check out the amazing fact generator and quizzes for some interesting tidbits

Procatinator

Every time you load the website, you get a new song and a new cat gif. Cats and music, what else do you need?

Reddit is possibly the most addicting website on the Internet. Reddit is a community of people with specific subreddits on pretty much everything. Whether it be science, gaming, starcraft, or birds with arms, Reddit has it. If it exists, there is a subreddit for it.

Snopes

Confused about what is a truth and what is a lie? Snopes.com has you covered. Find out if the claims that shady politician is making are true, or if the story you mom always told you is an old wives’ tale.

Sporcle

Sporcle.com has timed quizzes on just about everything. Recite the countries of the world, name Pokemon weaknesses, or dispense your Friends knowledge.

Stumbleupon

With stumbleupon.com you will reach parts of the Internet you did not know existed. Select your interests, and Stumble Upon will send you all over the web with websites and articles that might interest you. (This is where I, OP, found this page)

Wikipedia

The ultimate source for time wasting. Learn about anything and everything. Wikipedia has well-cited articles on almost anything you can think of. Need a place to start? Try the list of common misconceptions, the list of unusual articles, or the list of lists of lists.

UselessWeb

Similarly to stumbleupon.com, theuselessweb.com takes you to a random website with one click. The only difference is that these websites are completely useless. Need a random color? They have it covered. Is you name Dan? Hear the beautiful sound of your name. Do you like Breaking Bad or the sound a bell makes? Ding!

Tvtropes

Everyone knows cool guys walk away from explosions, especially tvtropes.org. Learn every movie/television cliché and trend and when it happened.

UnplugTheTv

Unplugthetv.com is a website for educational videos about just about everything. You can learn how the pope is selected, why we are ticklish, facts about Mr. Rogers, and much more.

Credit to: Jonny.
Source:http://lifehackninja.com/12-addicting-websites-you-wont-be-able-to-leave/

LauraBelugaCat

For the procatinator crowd...try www.purrpurr.org. I don't know how to post links in comments, but it's worth the typing. ;)

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kiaserzohsay

Wikipedia is the La Brea Tar Pits of the internet. Surfers surf in, but they don't surf out.

Forbayn

Boy, I'm glad it included Reddit and Wikipedia. Never would have known about them otherwise.

DrBuzzKill

I just wish OP would have pointed us to a good website to search for things on the web. I use Lycos.

jhyw

Instead of making us play a game to give people rice, why not give people rice?

LoneStonerLady

It's the various sponsors that pay for it, it explains how it works in the FAQ

SheeshIsActuallyMyName

Freerice.com, the only website I disable AdBlock for....

BraceYourselfWinterIsComing

The catinator.com was worth the post alone...Thanks!

HPNomad

What about Cracked?

BenjaminAJarvis

Fuck Cracked

NarcolepticHamster

Eh, they've kinda gone downhill recently. IMO, of course.

balkingtowinnie

the newer writers are making really shitty articles. I am not a hater, I loved the site. But lately Ive read at least 5 shit articles, wtf

solsund

No kidding, until I loaded the rest I thought they missed TV Tropes too. Both those sites just devoured my free time.

YouHaveBeenWaylaidByEnemiesAndMustDefendYourself

Favorited for when I sober up

JustDrunkMe

I just got Michael Jackson's Somebody's Watching Me and a cat that's just staring at me....

BurntRamen

That's actually Rockwell who is Berry Gordy's (Gordy signed the Jackson 5) son, but Michael Jackson sings the hook.

Well the little tag on the side said Michael Jackson. So yea just went by that.

ICantEvenAct

I got The Macarena and a cat waving his paws in circles.

somethingsomethingcold

Also Listverse, moviemistakes and cracked.

RoDoBenBo

Sporcle ! Won 80€ worth of drinks at a pub quiz on Monday thanks in part to this website !

Awesome!!

Hwhat001

showed a group of friends Geoguesser, we played it for a long time. Who knew it could be a party game?

Froglip

10022 is my current highscore. And i have no idea if it is good^^

OppositeMan

FAVORITED FOR WHEN I DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANYTHING SCHOOL RELATED

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veganzombieseatgrains

ditto for work related

PsychedChicken

Ditto for BOTH

wahchoolookinat

Ditto for life related :)

AetherMcLoud

TV Tropes: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tab_explosion.png

pkfyre

Introduced my dad to geo guesser, my mom is pissed!

ScotchBingington

Wasting my life is now 12 times more fun

Yippie! Awesome

littleleopard

Oh God, OP posted a recommendation to TVTropes. Some people may never find their way back to imgur now. Hope you're proud of yourself, OP.

thethinktankisbroken

I clicked on procatinator AND THE SONG WAS THE STAR WARS THEME AND A CAT IN A SPACE POD

SnowyOwl

Love freerice! Everyone should know about it. It helps you and others :-)

mylilpwnie

good god, sporacle is amazing!

Keleesi

I'm about to be the Oprah of giving away 10 grains of rice at a time.

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kleppsd

You get ten grains of rice! You get ten grains of rice! EVERYONE GETS TEN GRAINS OF RICE!

demosthenes718

YOU GET SOME RICE! AND YOU GET SOME RICE!

ringox

Im drunk. I googled "grains". I was disappoint, but kept going to donate more grains. Everybody, get drunk, donate grains.

BadPotato

I want to know who has the job of rice counter, talk about rough.

ginangu

They probably just go by how much 10 grains weigh.

Well that ruins my mental image, damn!

YOUSHOUTEDTHIS

You get a grain! And you get a grain! Everyone gets a grainnnnnnnnnnnnn!!! :)

OriginalWadjet

TVTropes should be top of the list. Fuck, I remember when I first discovered it... Accidentally stayed up all night.

You too?

Back when that was an accomplishment, not a normal thing.

Nihzlet

I'm not sure the list is in any particular order. But yeah, TVTropes is an inescapable black hole when you first discover it.

ghostbox

Stumbleupon is how I found imgur.

That's funny, stumbleyupon is how i found this post!

iselltacos

Imgur... you forgot imgur

pfft dur imgur's numba uno, plus, you're kinda on here now right?

ConstipatedUnicorn

That geoguesser one is surprisingly entertaining

AguyonImgur

Yep, but sadly, for me at least, over half of them always seem to be in USA.

Ufokkenwotm8

and hilarious at times

apotatochip

Ok, I just got a score of 10,423. Beat that! Actually not sure if that would be considered well. I got within 200km on a few though!

geckoswan

I average around 9000. It seems its either the states, australia or brazil.

sushaichuck

I do too, though i did have a lot of europe and africa too.

Same here, although I had some Central and South American countries thrown in for good measure

reinaww

im proud of this score :) http://imgur.com/pSJpRdU

oh nice!!

Rhase

But who counts the rice....

believeitornotimnothome

Free Rice is awesome! Thanks for listing it here.

XDarkAngel

where is imgur ? O.o

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PumaStripes

And wimp.com!

davidbowieasziggystardust

here....here is imgur.

StamosatmyFuneral

This information is delivered with a certain assumption that you, being on Imgur, know about Imgur.

ExcitingJosh

What's Imgur?

pfft dur imgur's numba uno. and I think it speaks for itself since you're on, right?

OfCourseLuke

Look around you

WoodlurkerMimic

imgur's totally not addictive *bored of imgur, open new tab: go to imgur*

JohnJacobJingleHiemerSchmit

And Pornhub ? O.o

InferiorDarkmass

Imgur is Reddit O.o

okayadrian

that statement is true, imgur is reddit, but is reddit imgur? it is not.

I agree

steinhoff

It's the one on the outside of the boarders of the post.

kimttar

I assumed it was submitted on reddit. Scrolled up and was disappointed to learn it was submitted on imgur. So yeah! Where's imgur!?

KitchenSink

Why would it have the website it's posting on on it?

MadeAccountSoICanRememberImagesToRepostLater

Considering Imgur is basically a smaller Reddit... there's really no point of including it. Reddit has that covered.

well a Redditor made Imgur for Reddit so it could be classed as Reddit :o

iAmIncoherent

You're, kind of, on imgur. I think.

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VEpsilon

Do you, even, know what, commas are, for?,

No, I, do, not, please, teach, me,.,

TheOneWhoWasLeft

At the same time, we're, kind of, on reddit, though. And on 4chan, a little bit, which is curiously absent.

narfnarfnarfnarfnarfnarfnarfnarfnarfnarf

Woah dude

sassypurplecat

HELP! i STARTED THE RICE THING AND NOW I CAN'T LEAVE CAUSE I FEEL GUILTY IF I STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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krysadin

Omg me too.

l009

I disabled adblocker so I can play and leave without feeling guilty :)

NewGuardian2814

I'm way too determined to get to level 60... (I'm on 37!)

MaybeeAB

If they have a certain amount of rice possible to give, why not just give it all? are they seriously counting grains of rice?

Iguanameetu

I'm at 2,000 grains

CyanCo

If I may ask, how long did it take you?

imastark

I can't help you because Im also stuck on the freerice website out of guilt.

Calvinbah

If you stop, think about how long it takes them to send the rice and then come back later.

Ilikefluffythings

I'm learning new words yay! I'm going to introduce that site to my dad, he will try and get to level 10000000

Woo, trivia games are super fun. Makes me want to go play Bar trivia except that would require me to leave the house.

altonbrowndeserveshisownmemefuckyouifyoudisagree

it's is the best way to study for the language portion of the GRE!!

mitotinytims

Hell yea! As I played, I kept thinking "learned that word from GRE studying!"

ikmbaa

Go to work and donate one hours pay @_@

Badprenup

There's a bot for that. Set up 50 instances of it and let it run in the background. More rice for them and less guilt for you!

pippi2

The satisfaction is amazing!

Yoshiru

To be fair, you could donate a dollar to any food-based charity and clear any guilt. That's not very much rice, ;p

KaizerKilborn

Join ImguriansUnited and try and beat my rice score!

DanaBricks95

Plot Twist: For every answer you get wrong, they take rice AWAY from the hungry

richshibe

http://gyazo.com/f4a02e8135c95c6260159da07dbfb064

Frodoniku

Every post their highest level, I'm at 45 right now

TheresMoreToLivingThanOnlySurviving

I had the same problem! Just point at the x button on the right of monitor, close your eyes, promise you'll come back tomorrow, and click!

GaiusOrpheus

And when that little part of you dies, convince yourself it's empathy for the plight of the third world.

WarJesus420

doomed

msbav8r

Stop getting questions wrong, we're starving!

MycurlyhairsaysIcantgoouttoday

Am I the only one that thinks that 10 grains is barely anything? People would have to play non stop to feed someone.

(2/3) So, they answered 260 questions correctly to feed one person once?

MonopolyFourBee

I went and did some math. 2,000 grains is about 1 serving of rice.

PlayingDevilsAdvocate

Then your maths is shit

No, your math is shit. *Best. Comeback. Ever.*

Another user posted they earned 2,600 grains. Never counted, but that sounds like a medium bowl.

(3/3) Love the idea, but maybe 100 grains per answer. Thoughts?

SlashySlashy

They buy the rice with money gained from ads. So they can probably only afford ten rice per answer. And if 1 mil people answered 260 (1/2)

questions correctly, then that's 1 million bowls of rice. Enough to feed more than 1000 people a year.

svoxx

Level 60/60 2600 grains and it goes back down to level 59.. I don't think this ever ends..

paradoxqueen

Got to 700, I shall continue tomorrow.

travellingmonkey

The last time I was on that website was more than 3 yrs ago! Nostalgia :') You'll never be able to shut this down *evil laugh*

Pizzagalore

5000 + as of now

baoser3902

If you ever stop, you're a monster...

Bhargo

I couldnt stop because I was doing really well and felt like I needed to keep going because I was getting everything right.

shutyourpieholedouche

what level were you playing on?

jsegs

This qualifies as a fisat world problem

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bimpnottin

There should be a freehamburger site for first world problems.

What's it like in Fisat World? Do they need rice?

LePiggy

Not really no, they much prefer hamburgers.

Lumenation

Cookie Clicker should make the list. I hate imgur for showing me that site. However enjoy tormenting my OCD friends with it.

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CptTightPants

Oh god, I left my computer on for two days when I played that...

Ha, I was going to mention this. I finally did a hard reset after getting all the "Achievements" so I'm done.

jetfuelcantmeltnomeltcheese

i had stuff to do today, why u do dis.

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AchinForSomeBacon

I. Can't. Stop. God help me I even have multiple instances open, and am even cheating with auto-clickers. This is how I die, at my PC.

literallymike

Aaaaand I've been fired and my wife left me...

thevoiceinyourhead

Oh shit, why did I need to find out what this was? fuck you...

KalamazooCircus

Why...why am I clicking this cookie and why can't I stop!

ThreeHandOBoobie

Wow, 55 comments and not a single quick link. I'm not sure if I'm disappointed or impressed.

Scientificname

You've probably found it by now, this is for those who come next: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

KingoftheRoad

Scumbag Imgur: Takes up hours of my time with its hilarious banter, suggests how I can waste exponentially more time on other great sites.

am0k

Basic script makes this game cake. Cookie-cake.

wtfeyebrows

IM PRESENTLY PLAYING COOKIE CLICKER AND AM SERIOuSLY CONSIDERING LEAvING THE WINDOW OPEN WHILE I SLEEP TONIGHT FOR MORE COOKIES.

YaCANADAbitch

Do it. you can then wake up with

Berrypickerasfuck

*cookies

MJFswish

My window has been open for three weeks

turtlevomit

me too

EarlofErrl

Didnt try a single one on this list, but i jsut tried cookie clicker...and i just for my first mine!

meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU SAY THAT NOW I CANNOT STOP PLAYING THIS STUPID GAME JESUS

Tandar

Oh god. Still at the 100 antimatter...

Jimpster

100 of everything, 200 cursors and grandmas, working on 200 everything ^^

I got sidetracked by having to get another 100 grandma's

IWantToPetYourCat

Started this Wednesday night. Now I have 114 grandmas, 100 farms and 50 of everything else. Was going to mention it too, but saw you did.

Teelar

this with OMFGDOGS in the backround is so.... awesome

My friend showed me this... I didn't stop for EIGHT FUCKING DAYS... Fuck you Tony.

Astridnaut

"You disgust me" - grandma

"Call me." - Grandma

sapharodon

"You could have stopped it." - grandma

whoisjohndoe

you son of a bitch, i can't stop

fluffleupagus

Thanks to you, my boyfriend and I are now arguing over the best strategy to make more cookies.

Orgasmo1187

I will never close that tab now.

CherrySteele

You..... Satan........ I can't stop......

IJUSTMADETHEVOICEINYOURHEADYELL

I HATE YOU.

TheLetterD

you son of a ...

My girlfriend hates me because I play cookie clicker nonstop. Just broke 600 heavenly chips today and I'm getting 160 billion cps!

DJTrashCan

I started that game 30 hours ago.... I think I need help.

winterventi0n

I'm at work. I was supposed to leave for lunch 45 minutes ago.

MrPredator

Arr, those grandmothers replaced the whale in me nightmares.

MisterWho

BRB

shelliftw

fuck cookie clicker. i've been playing this game for like, three weeks. it consumes me.

yerglion

WHY DID I TRY THIS

Ksayssa

oh shit i just realized that I left my laptop running cookieclicker for the past week o.o

Gnoevoet

You just had to mention it.

I know, we had a good thing going here.

kendovzii

I don't remember who mentioned it in the last lists of random websites, but I spent a lot of time there. How much of my life I wasted...

Tardaff

Cookie CLicker is GTA V for pc players.

rebmcr

Everybody should do resets, the Heavenly Chips turbocharge you back up to 100 Time Machines in like 40 hours flat.

AcadianBacon

I also like sites like kongregate and armorgames. :D The games, not the community. x3 Kongregate is... caustic.

JonSmiththesecondjrsbowlofcerealscontemplationofexistence

i hate you so much

I am a broken shell of the person I was before reading this comment and googling

peacockfuta

commenting for later

RazgrizSeed

I was about to say something similar

DAMN YOU.

burntsilence

Ive been playing for the pas 405 hours and I cant stop and the grandmothers are becoming restless...send help...

mrsmusica

News : cookie manufacturer completely forgoes common sense, lets OCD drive building decisions!

hoorahforsnakes

i really really don't see the attraction of that game.. and yet i am currently playing it as we speak

BETTYFUCKINWHITE

Well, so much for my evening.

Link: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

patking13

I got to the grandmapocalypse and had to stop.

jaybovonbobo

you're a jerk, now i'm hooked :(

Samaellb

AH! WHY?

SnugglesMcgee

i'm not sure why there is an antimatter condenser, all i know is i must have it.

Thatsmyrice

I'm currently producing 8.1 billion cookies per second. Help... me...

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alfazha

How long have you been playing?

VenalFax

please it is no longer about the cps but about the heavenly chips, which i now have 1094 of them

Duvi0

8.1? Pff. Cookie scrub.

DukePaulAtreides

Trillions. I'm in the trillions per second. Someone call 911

ROBOT120807

2 days and I'm on 165 million per second fucking hell help.

BlazeHeatsin

You and I.... we're not going anywhere...

GorganPizzaStash

thats it? 65.4 bill

deafbeats

tell me your secrets...

Monarchist

25 trillion.....

thewaterbear

Screencap?

Nooo im not going back I managed to stop.

YoudonsrontNaklonatMamm

2.7 Trillion here. I have prestiged too many times. I have no idea what to do with my life. Please send help.

AsAnAmerican

I'm just at 21.6 cookies.... I'm guessing I should walk away while I still can?

interrobangster

too late..

setanta89

RUN!! RUUUN!!! IT'S FIVE IN THE MORNING AND I HAVE TO GO TO WORK!!! I CAN'T STOP!!!!

colbyP89

pretty much

20.1 billions at the moment..94% upgrades and 90% achievements.. fuck this shit, i wish i could quit

monkserpent

59.4 Billion/sec. 96% upgrades and 100% achievements. I had 100% and 100% before I restarted.

ItsSuchABeautifulDay

ctrl + W

DiaperMoney

and then you stumble upon the website again and it's still all there.. you'd have to reset the game to quit. and bro that's hard.

TheSpoopiest

.......52.3 billi

how many achievements and updates left?

......2 left each

ProbablyNotAMurderer

121503222354279/cps 1 upgrade left.

noeashly

Can you tell me what it is? My husband has had it on his computer for almost a week now. Wtf is it?!

Never mind. There goes any of my productivity. I hate you all.

plasavall

When you learn how to hack it becomes ven better.

http://pastebin.com/JP5iujnZ

micropig

I'm really glad I have nothing to do tonight but watch X-Files.

Update: WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME?!

ThatsNoLlama

Have you tried Candy Box? It will ruin your life.

Oh lord, I have both of those open. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?

KnockKnockWhosThereJehovahsWitness

Now im addicted... Thanks

RireMakar

I cheated and spawned myself a ton of money in order to ruin the fun. That way, I could stop playing, 'cause I couldn't otherwise...

FireIsGood

Yup. I'm almost completely finished the game.

Antimatter condensers and reset game acheivements is all I have left

They're going to release more, but if I can get 100% before then, I won't care enough to go for them.

iwantashortnameforonceohshit

so, you just.. click the cookie? that's it?

themagicvoyage

I don't get it either...

tuxedos

Me either.