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Uncommon card · Science
Cipher, an Uncommon card
In cryptography, a cipher is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption, a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 36
- Power
- 99
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 99 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Cipher quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cipher card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
An ______, less common term is encipherment.
Answer
alternative. An alternative, less common term is encipherment. From the Cipher article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cipher. Cipher 63 · Pascal 60 · Barbecue sauce 55 · 2,3-dihydro-2,3-dihydroxybenzoate dehydrogenase 52 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Pascal. Pascal 260,000 · Cipher 150,000 · 2,3-dihydro-2,3-dihydroxybenzoate dehydrogenase 380 · Macon-Bibb County Transit Authority 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.
- An alternative, less common term is encipherment.
- To encipher or encode is to convert information into cipher or code.
- In common parlance, "cipher" is synonymous with "code", as they are both a set of steps that encrypt a message, however, the concepts are distinct in cryptography, especially classical cryptography.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cipher article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 36: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Cipher
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Cipher in the power ranking, all domains together.
- PoitínUncommon · Society · ATK 58 DEF 41
- Geoffrey ZakarianUncommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 39
- Barbara BouchetUncommon · Arts · ATK 61 DEF 38
- IsomorphismUncommon · Science · ATK 65 DEF 34
- CaissonUncommon · Society · ATK 61 DEF 38
- Joe KleckoUncommon · Society · ATK 63 DEF 36
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cipher (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Edward Larsson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
