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Uncommon card · Science
Alfred Vail, an Uncommon card
Alfred Lewis Vail was an American machinist and inventor.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 34
- Power
- 94
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Power 94 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Alfred Vail quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Alfred Vail card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Along with Samuel Morse, Vail was central in developing and ______ American electrical telegraphy between 1837 and 1844.
Answer
commercializing. Along with Samuel Morse, Vail was central in developing and commercializing American electrical telegraphy between 1837 and 1844. From the Alfred Vail article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Blowing up. Blowing up 66 · Alfred Vail 60 · Jan Evangelista Purkyně 57 · Air brake 53 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.
- Along with Samuel Morse, Vail was central in developing and commercializing American electrical telegraphy between 1837 and 1844.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alfred Vail article was read about 20,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 34: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Alfred Vail
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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The cards just above and just below Alfred Vail in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Andrés Manuel López BeltránUncommon · History · ATK 58 DEF 36
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alfred Vail (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
