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Uncommon card · History
Francis Beaufort, an Uncommon card
Sir Francis Beaufort was an Irish hydrographer and naval officer who created the Beaufort cipher and the Beaufort scale.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 113
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 22,000
Power 113 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Francis Beaufort quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Francis Beaufort card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Sir Francis Beaufort was an Irish ______ and naval officer who created the Beaufort cipher and the Beaufort scale.
Answer
hydrographer. Sir Francis Beaufort was an Irish hydrographer and naval officer who created the Beaufort cipher and the Beaufort scale. From the Francis Beaufort article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Si Inthrathit. Si Inthrathit 70 · Francis Beaufort 66 · Marie Bashkirtseff 62 · Diogo Cão 58 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.
- Sir Francis Beaufort was an Irish hydrographer and naval officer who created the Beaufort cipher and the Beaufort scale.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Francis Beaufort article was read about 22,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Francis Beaufort
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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- IjmaUncommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 53
- Marty TurcoUncommon · Society · ATK 67 DEF 46
- MixerUncommon · Science · ATK 59 DEF 54
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Francis Beaufort (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Stephen Pearce, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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