WikiCards
Play on iPhone nowFree in Safari. Add it to your Home Screen.Play
WikiCards · Card list · Nature cards · Cowrie
Uncommon card · Nature
Cowrie, an Uncommon card
Cowrie or cowry is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails in the family Cypraeidae.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 120
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 100,000
Power 120 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Cowrie quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cowrie card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The cowrie was the shell most widely used ______ as shell money.
Answer
worldwide. The cowrie was the shell most widely used worldwide as shell money. From the Cowrie article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Androgen. Androgen 69 · Chūbu region 66 · Cowrie 62 · PROB1 52 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Chamomile. Chamomile 240,000 · Chamois 180,000 · Cowrie 100,000 · PROB1 220 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.
- Cowrie shells have held cultural, economic, and ornamental significance in various cultures.
- The cowrie was the shell most widely used worldwide as shell money.
- It is most abundant in the Indian Ocean and was collected near the Maldive Islands, Sri Lanka and the Indian Malabar coast, Borneo and other East Indian islands, Maluku in the Pacific, Papua New Guinea, and various parts of the African coast from Ras Hafun, in Somalia, to Mozambique.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cowrie article was read about 100,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Cowrie
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 Nature cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Cowrie in the power ranking, all domains together.
- AngstromUncommon · Science · ATK 63 DEF 57
- Dutch Cape ColonyUncommon · History · ATK 67 DEF 53
- NavyUncommon · History · ATK 73 DEF 47
- Ram Prasad BismilUncommon · Arts · ATK 67 DEF 53
- Will and testamentUncommon · Society · ATK 71 DEF 49
- Fotheringhay CastleUncommon · History · ATK 63 DEF 57
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Nature cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cowrie (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NOAA (Photo Collection of Dr. James P. McVey, NOAA Sea Grant Program), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
