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Canasta, an Uncommon card
Canasta is a card game of the rummy family of games believed to be a variant of 500 rum.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 32
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 180,000
Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Canasta quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Canasta card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Players attempt to make melds of seven cards of the same rank and "go out" by ______ all cards in their hands.
Answer
playing. Players attempt to make melds of seven cards of the same rank and "go out" by playing all cards in their hands. From the Canasta article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Jeremy Hansen. Jeremy Hansen 1,300,000 · Canasta 180,000 · René Roy 520 · Cheadle Hulme North 42 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.
- Although many variations exist for two, three, five or six players, it is most commonly played by four in two partnerships with two standard decks of cards.
- Players attempt to make melds of seven cards of the same rank and "go out" by playing all cards in their hands.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Canasta article was read about 180,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 32: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
How to get Canasta
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.
More Society cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Canasta in the power ranking, all domains together.
- ColeslawRare · Society · ATK 60 DEF 43
- Armistice DayRare · History · ATK 62 DEF 41
- Pauline McLynnRare · Arts · ATK 64 DEF 39
- Conor WoodmanUncommon · Science · ATK 59 DEF 44
- BlueprintUncommon · Arts · ATK 58 DEF 45
- Silvia SalisUncommon · History · ATK 68 DEF 35
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Canasta (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Roland Scheicher at German Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
