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Almon Brown Strowger, a Common card
Almon Brown Strowger was an American inventor for whom the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology, is named.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 24
- Power
- 79
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 14,000
Power 79 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Almon Brown Strowger quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Almon Brown Strowger card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Almon Brown Strowger was an ______ inventor for whom the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology, is named.
Answer
American. Almon Brown Strowger was an American inventor for whom the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology, is named. From the Almon Brown Strowger article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Elliptic operator. Elliptic operator 59 · Almon Brown Strowger 55 · Kikunae Ikeda 50 · Cuprite 47 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.
- Almon Brown Strowger was an American inventor for whom the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology, is named.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Almon Brown Strowger article was read about 14,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 24: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Almon Brown Strowger
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, Almon Brown Strowger (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
