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Barquillo, a Common card
Barquillo is a crispy rolled wafer pastry originating in Spain.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 108
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 108 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Barquillo quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Barquillo card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was introduced to Latin America and the ______ during colonial times.
Answer
Philippines. It was introduced to Latin America and the Philippines during colonial times. From the Barquillo article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
47 Tucanae. 47 Tucanae 65 · University Place, Washington 62 · Ferney-Voltaire 59 · Barquillo 55 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.
- It is made from the basic cookie ingredients of flour, sugar, egg whites and butter rolled out thinly and then shaped into a hollow cylinder or a cone.
- It was traditionally sold by roadside vendors known as barquilleros who carried a characteristic red roulette tin.
- It was introduced to Latin America and the Philippines during colonial times.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Barquillo article was read about 12,000 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 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Barquillo
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 Barquillo in the power ranking, all domains together.
- 47 TucanaeCommon · Science · ATK 65 DEF 43
- Ferney-VoltaireCommon · Society · ATK 59 DEF 49
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- Duncan WhiteCommon · Society · ATK 61 DEF 47
- Informal logicCommon · Science · ATK 66 DEF 42
- June 2029 lunar eclipseCommon · Science · ATK 55 DEF 53
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Barquillo (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Tamorlan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
