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Basketball, an Uncommon card
A basketball is a spherical ball used in basketball games. Basketballs usually range in size from very small promotional items that are only a few inches in diameter to extra large balls nearly 2 feet in diameter used in training exercises.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 122
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 122 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Basketball quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Basketball card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
High school and junior ______ normally use NCAA-, NBA-, or WNBA-sized balls.
Answer
leagues. High school and junior leagues normally use NCAA-, NBA-, or WNBA-sized balls. From the Basketball article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ampère's circuital law. Ampère's circuital law 70 · Basketball 66 · Gangaikonda Cholapuram 63 · Beige 59 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Black tea. Black tea 170,000 · Basketball 110,000 · Ampère's circuital law 79,000 · Canals of the United Kingdom 62,000 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.
- For example, a youth basketball could be 27 inches in circumference, while a National Collegiate Athletic Association men's ball would be a maximum of 30 inches and an NCAA women's ball would be a maximum of 29 inches.
- The standard for a basketball in the National Basketball Association is 29.5 inches in circumference and for the Women's National Basketball Association, a maximum circumference of 28.5 inches.
- High school and junior leagues normally use NCAA-, NBA-, or WNBA-sized balls.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Basketball article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Basketball
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 Basketball in the power ranking, all domains together.
- DormouseUncommon · Nature · ATK 64 DEF 58
- Antonine PlagueUncommon · Science · ATK 68 DEF 54
- Atomic nucleusUncommon · Science · ATK 70 DEF 52
- BeigeUncommon · Science · ATK 59 DEF 63
- CharacterUncommon · Science · ATK 66 DEF 56
- Cho OyuUncommon · Nature · ATK 63 DEF 59
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Basketball (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Reisio, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
