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Uncommon card · Science
Beige, an Uncommon card
Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan, a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 122
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 122 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Beige quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Beige card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The word "beige" has come to be used to describe a ______ of light tints chosen for their neutral or pale warm appearance.
Answer
variety. The word "beige" has come to be used to describe a variety of light tints chosen for their neutral or pale warm appearance. From the Beige article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer. Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer 990,000 · Black tea 170,000 · Beige 110,000 · CFAP206 160 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.
- It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has been neither bleached nor dyed, hence also the color of natural wool.
- The word "beige" has come to be used to describe a variety of light tints chosen for their neutral or pale warm appearance.
- Beige began to commonly be used as a term for a color in France beginning approximately 1855–1860, the writer Edmond de Goncourt used it in the novel La Fille Elisa in 1877.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Beige 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 59 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Beige
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 Beige in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Antonine PlagueUncommon · Science · ATK 68 DEF 54
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- BasketballUncommon · Society · ATK 66 DEF 56
- CharacterUncommon · Science · ATK 66 DEF 56
- Joseph FourierUncommon · Science · ATK 67 DEF 55
- Horned lizardUncommon · Nature · ATK 68 DEF 54
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Beige (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
