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Ballpoint pen, an Uncommon card
A ballpoint pen is a pen that dispenses ink over a hard ball rolling in its point.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170,000
Ranked #995 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Ballpoint pen quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ballpoint pen card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ commonly used are steel, brass, or tungsten carbide.
Answer
materials. The materials commonly used are steel, brass, or tungsten carbide. From the Ballpoint pen article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
São Paulo. São Paulo 93 · 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries 87 · Mile 84 · Ballpoint pen 78 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.
- The materials commonly used are steel, brass, or tungsten carbide.
- The design was conceived and developed as a cleaner and more reliable alternative to dip pens and fountain pens.
- It is now the world's most-used writing instrument, with millions manufactured and sold daily.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ballpoint pen article was read about 170,000 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 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Ballpoint pen
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 Ballpoint pen in the power ranking, all domains together.
- PassportUncommon · Science · ATK 86 DEF 92
- SnowUncommon · Nature · ATK 86 DEF 92
- Welfare stateUncommon · Society · ATK 89 DEF 89
- NibelungenliedUncommon · Arts · ATK 79 DEF 99
- American minkUncommon · Nature · ATK 82 DEF 96
- Pipe organUncommon · Arts · ATK 83 DEF 95
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ballpoint pen (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Trounce, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
