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Death Valley, a Rare card
Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, United States, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 154
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 420,000
Power 154 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Death Valley quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Death Valley card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The World ______ Organization lists Death Valley as the site of the hottest surface temperature recorded on Earth.
Answer
Meteorological. The World Meteorological Organization lists Death Valley as the site of the hottest surface temperature recorded on Earth. From the Death Valley article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Global Positioning System. Global Positioning System 94 · World's fair 80 · Death Valley 75 · Beta vulgaris 70 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Death Valley. Death Valley 420,000 · Beta vulgaris 60,000 · Agathis australis 48,000 · Antbird 8,100 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.
- The World Meteorological Organization lists Death Valley as the site of the hottest surface temperature recorded on Earth.
- In the afternoon hours of July 10, 1913, the United States Weather Bureau recorded a temperature of 134 °F at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, which stands as the highest ambient air temperature ever recorded on the surface of the Earth.
- However, this reading and several others taken in that period are disputed by some modern experts due to observer issues and regional disparities in temperature values.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Death Valley article was read about 420,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Death Valley
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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- CloveRare · Nature · ATK 72 DEF 82
- AlbumRare · Arts · ATK 77 DEF 77
- Carnation RevolutionRare · History · ATK 79 DEF 75
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Death Valley (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
