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English auction, a Common card
An English auction is an open-outcry ascending dynamic auction.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 53
- DEF
- 33
- Power
- 86
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 8,500
Power 86 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
English auction quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the English auction card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ opens the auction by announcing a suggested opening bid, a starting price, or a reserve for the item on sale.
Answer
auctioneer. The auctioneer opens the auction by announcing a suggested opening bid, a starting price, or a reserve for the item on sale. From the English auction article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Jean-Marc Gounon. Jean-Marc Gounon 60 · Chlorophyllin 56 · English auction 53 · Extrusive rock 48 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.
- It proceeds as follows.
- The auctioneer opens the auction by announcing a suggested opening bid, a starting price, or a reserve for the item on sale.
- Then the auctioneer accepts increasingly higher bids from the floor and sometimes from other sources, for example online or telephone bids.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The English auction article was read about 8,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 53 and blocks with 33: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
How to get English auction
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 English auction in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Charles BarbierCommon · Science · ATK 56 DEF 30
- Daniele GattiCommon · Arts · ATK 57 DEF 29
- Dudh KoshiCommon · Nature · ATK 54 DEF 32
- Alfred HersheyCommon · Science · ATK 54 DEF 32
- Jean-Marc GounonCommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 26
- José de la Riva AgüeroCommon · History · ATK 61 DEF 25
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, English auction (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) and Augustus Charles Pugin (1762–1832) (after) John Bluck (f, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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