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Dicaearchus, a Common card
Dicaearchus of Messana, also written Dikaiarchos, was a Greek philosopher, geographer and author.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,300
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Dicaearchus quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dicaearchus card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Very little of his work ______ extant.
Answer
remains. Very little of his work remains extant. From the Dicaearchus article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Luis Horna. Luis Horna 74 · Félix d'Hérelle 69 · Dicaearchus 65 · Harvey J. Alter 62 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- Dicaearchus was a student of Aristotle in the Lyceum.
- Very little of his work remains extant.
- He wrote on geography and the history of Greece, of which his most important work was his Life of Greece.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dicaearchus article was read about 7,300 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Dicaearchus
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 Dicaearchus in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Yi XingCommon · Science · ATK 65 DEF 49
- Luis HornaCommon · Society · ATK 74 DEF 40
- Sylvester H. RoperCommon · Science · ATK 60 DEF 54
- Oleksiy DanilovCommon · History · ATK 62 DEF 52
- Polina ZherebtsovaCommon · Arts · ATK 68 DEF 46
- Alexandre HerculanoCommon · Arts · ATK 67 DEF 47
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Dicaearchus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Giuseppe Emanuele Ortolani, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
