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Rare card · Science
Acre, a Rare card
The acre is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 71
- Power
- 143
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 300,000
Power 143 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Acre quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Acre card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The acre is sometimes ______ ac, but is usually spelled out as the word "acre".
Answer
abbreviated. The acre is sometimes abbreviated ac, but is usually spelled out as the word "acre". From the Acre article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Variance. Variance 79 · Charcoal 75 · Acre 72 · Beetroot 67 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Acre. Acre 300,000 · Arctic exploration 24,000 · List of sweet potato cultivars 13,000 · Bridge strike 6,300 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong, which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, 1⁄640 of a square mile, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet, and approximately 4,047 m2, or about 40% of a hectare.
- The acre is sometimes abbreviated ac, but is usually spelled out as the word "acre".
- Traditionally, in the Middle Ages, an acre was conceived of as the area of land that could be ploughed by one man using a team of eight oxen in one day.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Acre article was read about 300,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 71: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Acre
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Acre (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Modification by Jc3s5h of image by DanMS who in turn modified Xyzzy 's work., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
