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Uncommon card · Nature
Blue-tongued skink, an Uncommon card
Blue-tongued skinks are lizards of the Australasian genus Tiliqua, which includes some of the largest members of the skink family.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 106
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 106 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Blue-tongued skink quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Blue-tongued skink card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Their ______ can also deform itself and produce a thick mucus in order to catch prey.
Answer
tongue. Their tongue can also deform itself and produce a thick mucus in order to catch prey. From the Blue-tongued skink article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cable television. Cable television 68 · Procyonidae 65 · Cyclades 61 · Blue-tongued skink 58 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Procyonidae. Procyonidae 240,000 · Cantaloupe 190,000 · Blue-tongued skink 120,000 · Chaenotheca ferruginea 390 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.
- They are commonly called blue-tongued lizards, simply blue-tongues, blueys in Australia, or panana in Indonesia.
- As suggested by these common names, a prominent characteristic of the genus is a large blue tongue that can be bared as bluff-warning to potential enemies.
- Their tongue can also deform itself and produce a thick mucus in order to catch prey.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Blue-tongued skink article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Blue-tongued skink
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 Blue-tongued skink in the power ranking, all domains together.
- CycladesUncommon · Nature · ATK 61 DEF 45
- Cable televisionUncommon · Society · ATK 68 DEF 38
- Sabine HossenfelderUncommon · Science · ATK 60 DEF 46
- Paris MastersUncommon · Society · ATK 70 DEF 36
- National anthemUncommon · History · ATK 67 DEF 39
- QuarryUncommon · Society · ATK 58 DEF 48
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Blue-tongued skink (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
