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Uncommon card · History
Fulda Gap, an Uncommon card
The Fulda Gap, an area between the Hesse-Thuringian border, the former Inner German border, and Frankfurt am Main, contains two corridors of lowlands through which tanks might have driven in a surprise attack by the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies to gain crossings of the Rhine River.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 111
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 111 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Fulda Gap quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Fulda Gap card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Named for the town of Fulda, the Fulda Gap became seen as strategically ______ during the Cold War of 1947–1991.
Answer
important. Named for the town of Fulda, the Fulda Gap became seen as strategically important during the Cold War of 1947–1991. From the Fulda Gap article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Jonathan Edwards. Jonathan Edwards 70 · Fulda Gap 67 · Bey 63 · Coup of 18 Brumaire 60 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Straw man. Straw man 280,000 · Carlo Ponti 200,000 · Fulda Gap 150,000 · Bey 98,000 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.
- Named for the town of Fulda, the Fulda Gap became seen as strategically important during the Cold War of 1947–1991.
- The Fulda Gap roughly corresponds to the route along which Napoleon chose to withdraw his armies after defeat at the Battle of Leipzig.
- Napoleon succeeded in defeating a Bavarian-Austrian army under Wrede in the Battle of Hanau not far from Frankfurt.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Fulda Gap article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Fulda Gap
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, Fulda Gap (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Dual Freq, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
