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Gallows, an Uncommon card
A gallows is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended or "weighed".
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 52
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 91
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 91 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Gallows quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gallows card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In modern usage the term "gallows" has come to mean almost exclusively a ______ or gibbet used for execution by hanging.
Answer
scaffold. In modern usage the term "gallows" has come to mean almost exclusively a scaffold or gibbet used for execution by hanging. From the Gallows article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Roger Black. Roger Black 63 · First language 59 · Gallows 52 · French martini 32 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
First language. First language 190,000 · Nicole Johnson 150,000 · Gallows 110,000 · French martini 82,000 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.
- Gallows were thus widely used to suspend public weighing scales for large and heavy objects such as sacks of grain or minerals, usually positioned in markets or toll gates.
- The term was also used for a projecting framework from which a ship's anchor might be raised so it is no longer sitting on the seabed, riverbed or dock, "weighing [the] anchor" meant raising it using this apparatus while avoiding striking the ship's hull.
- In modern usage the term "gallows" has come to mean almost exclusively a scaffold or gibbet used for execution by hanging.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gallows article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 52 and blocks with 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Gallows
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, Gallows (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Robert Runyon, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
