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Chad Basin, an Uncommon card
The Chad Basin is the largest endorheic basin in Africa, centered approximately on Lake Chad.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 77
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 21,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Chad Basin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Chad Basin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It has no outlet to the sea and ______ large areas of semi-arid desert and savanna.
Answer
contains. It has no outlet to the sea and contains large areas of semi-arid desert and savanna. From the Chad Basin article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
1999 Martha's Vineyard plane crash. 1999 Martha's Vineyard plane crash 1,300,000 · Exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac 58,000 · Alternation of generations 45,000 · Chad Basin 21,000 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 no outlet to the sea and contains large areas of semi-arid desert and savanna.
- The drainage basin is approximately coterminous with the sedimentary basin of the same name, but extends further to the northeast and east.
- The basin spans four modern nations, including most of Chad and a large part of Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Chad Basin article was read about 21,000 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 77: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Chad Basin
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Chad Basin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User:Sting modified by User:Aymatth2, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
