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Chinese checkers, an Uncommon card
Chinese checkers or Chinese chequers, known as Sternhalma in German, is a strategy board game of German origin that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 108
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 108 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Chinese checkers quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Chinese checkers card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The game is a ______ and simplified variation of the game Halma.
Answer
modern. The game is a modern and simplified variation of the game Halma. From the Chinese checkers article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Great Attractor. Great Attractor 360,000 · Hypothesis 140,000 · Chinese checkers 110,000 · Louisiana Highway 68 420 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.
- The game is a modern and simplified variation of the game Halma.
- The objective is to be first to race all of one's pieces across the hexagram-shaped board into "home", the corner of the star opposite one's starting corner, using single-step moves or moves that jump over other pieces.
- The remaining players continue the game to establish second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-, and last-place finishers.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Chinese checkers article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Chinese checkers
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
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The cards just above and just below Chinese checkers in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Yemelyan PugachevUncommon · History · ATK 62 DEF 46
- Direct currentUncommon · Science · ATK 62 DEF 46
- Khanate of SibirUncommon · History · ATK 62 DEF 46
- The 7th Voyage of SinbadUncommon · Arts · ATK 64 DEF 44
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Society cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Chinese checkers (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The original uploader was Hephaestos at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
