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Uncommon card · Science
Beehive Cluster, an Uncommon card
The Beehive Cluster is an open cluster in the constellation Cancer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 129
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 31,000
Ranked #2,296 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Beehive Cluster quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Beehive Cluster card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Classical astronomer Ptolemy described it as a "nebulous mass in the ______ of Cancer".
Answer
breast. Classical astronomer Ptolemy described it as a "nebulous mass in the breast of Cancer". From the Beehive Cluster article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
2018 New Orleans Saints season. 2018 New Orleans Saints season 81 · Boiler 70 · Photochemistry 67 · Beehive Cluster 64 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Boiler. Boiler 65,000 · Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet 46,000 · Beehive Cluster 31,000 · Photochemistry 24,000 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.
- One of the nearest open clusters to Earth, it contains a larger population of stars than other nearby bright open clusters holding around 1,000 stars.
- Under dark skies, the Beehive Cluster looks like a small nebulous object to the naked eye, and has been known since ancient times.
- Classical astronomer Ptolemy described it as a "nebulous mass in the breast of Cancer".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Beehive Cluster article was read about 31,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Beehive Cluster
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, Beehive Cluster (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Chuck Ayoub, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
