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Baikonur Cosmodrome, a Rare card
The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 76
- Power
- 152
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 260,000
Power 152 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Baikonur Cosmodrome quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Baikonur Cosmodrome card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
All Russian crewed ______ are launched from Baikonur.
Answer
spaceflights. All Russian crewed spaceflights are launched from Baikonur. From the Baikonur Cosmodrome article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Almaty. Almaty 86 · Panama City 80 · Baikonur Cosmodrome 76 · Scott Pelley 73 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Scott Pelley. Scott Pelley 550,000 · Croissant 330,000 · Baikonur Cosmodrome 260,000 · Magdeburg 200,000 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.
- Located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur, it is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area.
- All Russian crewed spaceflights are launched from Baikonur.
- Situated in the Kazakh Steppe, some 90 metres above sea level, it is 200 kilometres to the east of the Aral Sea and 33 kilometres north of the Syr Darya.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Baikonur Cosmodrome article was read about 260,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 76: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Baikonur Cosmodrome
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, Baikonur Cosmodrome (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bill Ingalls, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
