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Bowden cable, an Uncommon card
A Bowden cable is a type of flexible cable used to transmit mechanical force or energy by the movement of an inner cable relative to a hollow outer cable housing.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 25,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Bowden cable quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Bowden cable card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ movement of the inner cable may be used to transmit pull force, or both push and pull forces.
Answer
linear. The linear movement of the inner cable may be used to transmit pull force, or both push and pull forces. From the Bowden cable article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Foam. Foam 72 · Bowden cable 67 · Yoshikazu Yasuhiko 63 · Nicolaus Otto 59 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Foam. Foam 44,000 · Bowden cable 25,000 · Viral replication 20,000 · Climbing wall 13,000 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.
- The housing is generally of composite construction, consisting of an inner lining, a longitudinally incompressible layer such as a helical winding or a sheath of steel wire, and a protective outer covering.
- The linear movement of the inner cable may be used to transmit pull force, or both push and pull forces.
- Many light aircraft use a push/pull Bowden cable for the throttle control, and here it is normal for the inner element to be a solid wire, rather than a multi-strand cable.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bowden cable article was read about 25,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Bowden cable
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, Bowden cable (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Baran Ivo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
