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Abacus seeds, a Common card
Abacus seeds or abacus beads is a Hakka Chinese dish consisting of dimpled, disc-shaped dumplings made with taro and tapioca flour.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 41
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 78
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,600
Power 78 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Abacus seeds quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Abacus seeds card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The dumplings' round shape is also said to ______ reunion and good health.
Answer
represent. The dumplings' round shape is also said to represent reunion and good health. From the Abacus seeds article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
1788 doctors' riot. 1788 doctors' riot 54 · Cam F. Awesome 51 · Doris McLemore 48 · Abacus seeds 41 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The dumplings are boiled then stir-fried with minced pork, shiitake or wood ear mushrooms, dried shrimp, dried cuttlefish and firm bean curd.
- Due to its association with the abacus and counting money, the dish is eaten during festivals such as Chinese New Year to signify wealth and prosperity.
- The dumplings' round shape is also said to represent reunion and good health.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Abacus seeds article was read about 6,600 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 41 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Abacus seeds
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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- Charles McBurneyCommon · Science · ATK 48 DEF 30
- Metropolitan Cathedral of San SalvadorCommon · Arts · ATK 53 DEF 25
- ÞorlákshöfnCommon · Society · ATK 51 DEF 27
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Abacus seeds (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : jiathwee, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
