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Uncommon card · History
Charles Wilkes, an Uncommon card
Charles Wilkes was an American naval officer, ship's captain, and explorer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Charles Wilkes quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Charles Wilkes card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He led the first United States Exploring ______.
Answer
Expedition. He led the first United States Exploring Expedition. From the Charles Wilkes article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of sovereign states in the 2020s. List of sovereign states in the 2020s 83 · William Graham Sumner 76 · Charles Wilkes 70 · Lucien Lelong 67 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- He led the first United States Exploring Expedition.
- During the American Civil War, he commanded USS San Jacinto during the Trent Affair incident in which he stopped a British Royal Mail ship and forcibly removed two Confederate diplomats, almost leading to war between the United States and United Kingdom.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Charles Wilkes article was read about 20,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Charles Wilkes
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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The cards just above and just below Charles Wilkes in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Olivier BlanchardUncommon · Science · ATK 72 DEF 68
- Vladimir K. ZworykinUncommon · Science · ATK 69 DEF 71
- William Graham SumnerUncommon · Science · ATK 76 DEF 64
- Gabriel LippmannUncommon · History · ATK 69 DEF 71
- Volodymyr VynnychenkoUncommon · History · ATK 70 DEF 70
- 2025 World Rugby U20 ChampionshipUncommon · Society · ATK 76 DEF 64
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Charles Wilkes (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
