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Caesar cipher, a Rare card
A Caesar cipher is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques used in cryptography.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 117
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 320,000
Power 117 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Caesar cipher quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Caesar cipher card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The method is named after Julius Caesar, who used it in his private ______.
Answer
correspondence. The method is named after Julius Caesar, who used it in his private correspondence. From the Caesar cipher article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of state highways in Wyoming. List of state highways in Wyoming 80 · National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Connecticut 73 · Caesar cipher 64 · William Flockhart 59 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Caesar cipher. Caesar cipher 320,000 · List of state highways in Wyoming 3,300 · National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Connecticut 1,400 · William Flockhart 930 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 is a type of substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions along the alphabet.
- For example, with a left shift of 3, D would be replaced by A, E would become B, and so on.
- The method is named after Julius Caesar, who used it in his private correspondence.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Caesar cipher article was read about 320,000 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 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Caesar cipher
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Caesar cipher in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Christos TzolisLegendary · Society · ATK 66 DEF 51
- Rod Brind'AmourEpic · Society · ATK 73 DEF 44
- MarmotRare · Nature · ATK 61 DEF 56
- Bloody MaryRare · Society · ATK 65 DEF 52
- Lars EidingerRare · Arts · ATK 63 DEF 54
- Sal Da VinciRare · Arts · ATK 67 DEF 50
Card lists
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Caesar cipher (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Matt_Crypto, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
