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Epic card · History
Forbidden City, an Epic card
The Forbidden City is the imperial palace complex in the center of the Imperial City in Beijing, China.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 90
- Power
- 171
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 650,000
Power 171 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Forbidden City quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Forbidden City card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ is now administered by the Palace Museum and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.
Answer
palace. The palace is now administered by the Palace Museum and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987. From the Forbidden City article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Reza Shah. Reza Shah 1,100,000 · Late Bronze Age collapse 880,000 · Forbidden City 650,000 · Garfield Sobers 500,000 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.
- It was the residence of twenty-four Ming and Qing dynasty Emperors and was the center of political power in China for over five hundred years from 1420 to 1924.
- The palace is now administered by the Palace Museum and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.
- The Forbidden City is one of the most famous palaces in all of Chinese history and is the largest preserved royal palace complex still standing in the world.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Forbidden City article was read about 650,000 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 90: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Forbidden City
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, Forbidden City (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Pixelflake, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
