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Uncommon card · Science
Chitin, an Uncommon card
Chitinn is a long-chain polymer of N-acetylglucosamine, an amide derivative of glucose.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 68
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 180,000
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Chitin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Chitin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is also synthesised by at least some fish and ______.
Answer
lissamphibians. It is also synthesised by at least some fish and lissamphibians. From the Chitin article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Results of the 2014 Japanese general election. Results of the 2014 Japanese general election 96 · Chainsaw 75 · White blood cell 71 · Chitin 67 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Nebula. Nebula 320,000 · Chitin 180,000 · Encryption 140,000 · Results of the 2014 Japanese general election 1,200 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.
- Chitin is the second most abundant polysaccharide in nature, an estimated 1 billion tons of chitin are produced each year in the biosphere.
- It is a primary component of cell walls in fungi, the exoskeletons of arthropods such as crustaceans and insects, the radulae, cephalopod beaks and gladii of molluscs and in some nematodes and diatoms.
- It is also synthesised by at least some fish and lissamphibians.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Chitin article was read about 180,000 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 68: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Chitin
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 Chitin in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- AcornUncommon · Nature · ATK 68 DEF 67
- Aichi PrefectureUncommon · Society · ATK 75 DEF 60
- Flying fishUncommon · Nature · ATK 66 DEF 69
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Chitin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Dschanz, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
