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Coin flipping, an Uncommon card
Coin flipping, coin tossing, or heads or tails involves launching a coin in the air and then checking which side is showing once it has landed, in order to randomly choose between two alternatives.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 67
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 96,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Coin flipping quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Coin flipping card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Used in such a ______, the coin serves as a binary lot.
Answer
fashion. Used in such a fashion, the coin serves as a binary lot. From the Coin flipping article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ottoman wars in Europe. Ottoman wars in Europe 79 · Blacksmith 76 · Coin flipping 73 · Computer engineering 69 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Axial tilt. Axial tilt 130,000 · Coin flipping 96,000 · Sampling 74,000 · Stefan Banach 52,000 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 is a form of sortition which inherently has two possible outcomes.
- Used in such a fashion, the coin serves as a binary lot.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Coin flipping article was read about 96,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 67: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Coin flipping
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
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Coin flipping in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Computer engineeringUncommon · Science · ATK 69 DEF 71
- Naguib MahfouzUncommon · Arts · ATK 73 DEF 67
- Ottoman wars in EuropeUncommon · History · ATK 79 DEF 61
- CurriculumUncommon · Society · ATK 76 DEF 64
- Herding dogUncommon · Nature · ATK 69 DEF 71
- HiroshigeUncommon · Arts · ATK 70 DEF 70
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, Coin flipping (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : ICMA Photos, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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