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Carom billiards, an Uncommon card
Carom billiards, also called French billiards and sometimes carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless billiard tables.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 142
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 142 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Carom billiards quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Carom billiards card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
There is a large array of carom billiards ______.
Answer
disciplines. There is a large array of carom billiards disciplines. From the Carom billiards article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Crossword. Crossword 83 · Batumi 75 · Bay of Fundy 71 · Carom billiards 68 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Yucatán Peninsula. Yucatán Peninsula 190,000 · Carom billiards 120,000 · Placoderm 78,000 · Rio Negro 51,000 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.
- In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score points or "counts" by caroming one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball on a single shot.
- The invention as well as the exact date of origin of carom billiards is somewhat obscure but is thought to be traceable to 18th-century France.
- There is a large array of carom billiards disciplines.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Carom billiards 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 68 and blocks with 74: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Carom billiards
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, Carom billiards (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
