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Drinking straw, an Uncommon card
A drinking straw is a utensil that uses suction to carry the contents of a beverage to one's mouth.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 181
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 41,000
Power 181 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Drinking straw quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Drinking straw card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A straw is used by placing one end in the mouth and the other in a ______.
Answer
beverage. A straw is used by placing one end in the mouth and the other in a beverage. From the Drinking straw article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Guru. Guru 130,000 · Compost 76,000 · Drinking straw 41,000 · Uberlândia 31,000 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.
- A straw is used by placing one end in the mouth and the other in a beverage.
- Lowering the pressure in the mouth causes the surrounding atmospheric pressure to force the liquid through the straw and into the mouth.
- Drinking straws can be straight or have an angle-adjustable bellows segment.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Drinking straw article was read about 41,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Drinking straw
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Drinking straw (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Horia Varlan from Bucharest, Romania, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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