WikiCards
Play on iPhone nowFree in Safari. Add it to your Home Screen.Play
WikiCards · Card list · Science cards · Cups and balls
Common card · Science
Cups and balls, a Common card
The cups and balls is a performance of magic with innumerable adaptations.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 123
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 123 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Cups and balls quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cups and balls card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Street gambling ______ performed by conmen were known as Bunco Booths.
Answer
variations. Street gambling variations performed by conmen were known as Bunco Booths. From the Cups and balls article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Sid McMath. Sid McMath 80 · 2022 Papua New Guinean general election 71 · Angular diameter 68 · Cups and balls 63 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Angular diameter. Angular diameter 43,000 · De Officiis 27,000 · Cups and balls 13,000 · Geography of Kosovo 8,500 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.
- Street gambling variations performed by conmen were known as Bunco Booths.
- A typical cups and balls routine includes many of the most fundamental effects of magic: the balls can vanish, appear, transpose, reappear and transform.
- Basic skills, such as misdirection, manual dexterity, sleight of hand, and audience management are also essential to most cups and balls routines.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cups and balls article was read about 13,000 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 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Cups and balls
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 Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Cups and balls in the power ranking, all domains together.
- 1821Common · History · ATK 65 DEF 58
- 2022 Papua New Guinean general electionCommon · History · ATK 71 DEF 52
- ActaeaCommon · Science · ATK 61 DEF 62
- GeraldinaCommon · Nature · ATK 65 DEF 58
- Sid McMathCommon · History · ATK 80 DEF 43
- Gabtali UpazilaCommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 63
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Science cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cups and balls (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Hieronymus Bosch and workshop / Workshop of Hieronymus Bosch / After Hieronymus Bosch, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
