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Uncommon card · History
Alan Ayckbourn, an Uncommon card
Sir Alan Ayckbourn is a prolific British playwright and director.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 157
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 57,000
Power 157 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Alan Ayckbourn quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Alan Ayckbourn card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in ____.
Answer
1960s. More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967. From the Alan Ayckbourn article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Basilan. Basilan 89 · Death and state funeral of Jiang Zemin 84 · Alan Ayckbourn 78 · Springfield Armory XD 73 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.
- As of 2026, he has written and produced 92 full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance.
- More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.
- Major successes include Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests trilogy, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce, Just Between Ourselves, A Chorus of Disapproval, Woman in Mind, A Small Family Business, Man of the Moment, House & Garden and Private Fears in Public Places.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alan Ayckbourn article was read about 57,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Alan Ayckbourn
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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- CogenerationUncommon · Society · ATK 79 DEF 78
- Akwa Ibom StateUncommon · History · ATK 75 DEF 82
- BasilanUncommon · Society · ATK 89 DEF 68
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alan Ayckbourn (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : John Thaxter, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
