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Rare card · Science
Far side of the Moon, a Rare card
The far side of the Moon, also called the dark side of the Moon, is the hemisphere of the Moon that faces away from Earth, the opposite hemisphere being the near side.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 81
- Power
- 155
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 340,000
Power 155 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Far side of the Moon quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Far side of the Moon card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The far side has sometimes been called the "dark side of the Moon", where "dark" means "unseen" instead of "______".
Answer
unilluminated. The far side has sometimes been called the "dark side of the Moon", where "dark" means "unseen" instead of "unilluminated". From the Far side of the Moon article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Thermonuclear weapon. Thermonuclear weapon 87 · Poisson distribution 83 · Francis Fukuyama 80 · Far side of the Moon 74 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Poisson distribution. Poisson distribution 690,000 · Far side of the Moon 340,000 · Pedagogy 270,000 · Stephen J. Lippard 10,000 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.
- Due to tidal locking, the time it takes for the Moon to orbit the Earth once is equal to the time it takes for the Moon to rotate once, thus, the far side of the Moon never fully comes into view from Earth's surface.
- The far side has sometimes been called the "dark side of the Moon", where "dark" means "unseen" instead of "unilluminated".
- There is however a common misconception that the dark side of the Moon is so-called because it never receives light, when each location on the Moon experiences two weeks of sunlight while the opposite location experiences night.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Far side of the Moon article was read about 340,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 81: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Far side of the Moon
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, Far side of the Moon (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
