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Cashmere wool, a Rare card
Cashmere wool, usually simply known as cashmere, is a fiber obtained from cashmere goats, pashmina goats, and some other breeds of goat.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 59
- Power
- 127
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 240,000
Power 127 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Cashmere wool quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cashmere wool card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It has been used to make yarn, ______ and clothing for hundreds of years.
Answer
textiles. It has been used to make yarn, textiles and clothing for hundreds of years. From the Cashmere wool article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Alternate history. Alternate history 82 · Claude Lemieux 73 · Cashmere wool 68 · Kumquat 63 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Claude Lemieux. Claude Lemieux 1,200,000 · Chet Holmgren 910,000 · Eli Junior Kroupi 700,000 · Cashmere wool 240,000 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.
- It has been used to make yarn, textiles and clothing for hundreds of years.
- Cashmere is closely associated with the Kashmir shawl, the word "cashmere" deriving from an anglicization of Kashmir, when the Kashmir shawl reached Europe in the 19th century.
- Both the soft undercoat and the guard hairs may be used, the softer hair is reserved for textiles, while the coarse guard hair is used for brushes and other non-apparel purposes.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cashmere wool article was read about 240,000 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 59: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Cashmere wool
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, Cashmere wool (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ryj, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
