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Uncommon card · Society
Avvaiyar, an Uncommon card
Avvaiyar was a Tamil poet who lived during the Sangam period.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 96
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 23,000
Power 96 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Avvaiyar quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Avvaiyar card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A plaque on a statue of the poet in Chennai suggests the first century BCE for her ______.
Answer
birthdate. A plaque on a statue of the poet in Chennai suggests the first century BCE for her birthdate. From the Avvaiyar article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
British Open. British Open 63 · Elizabeth Manley 60 · Avvaiyar 56 · Cashier 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.
- She wrote 59 poems in the Puṟanāṉūṟu. and is said to have had cordial relations with the Tamil chieftains Vēl Pāri and Athiyamān.
- A plaque on a statue of the poet in Chennai suggests the first century BCE for her birthdate.
- The name Avvaiyar in Tamil is defined as a respectable good woman and was considered an honorific.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Avvaiyar article was read about 23,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Avvaiyar
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, Avvaiyar (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Balamurugan Srinivasan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
