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Uncommon card · History
George Cayley, an Uncommon card
Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet was an English engineer, inventor and aviator.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 55
- Power
- 122
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 36,000
Power 122 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
George Cayley quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the George Cayley card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was also the ______ of the wire wheel.
Answer
inventor. He was also the inventor of the wire wheel. From the George Cayley article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ethiopian–Adal War. Ethiopian–Adal War 74 · Felix Klein 70 · George Cayley 67 · Stepan Makarov 63 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.
- He was a pioneer of aeronautical engineering and is sometimes referred to as "the father of aviation", designing the first glider reliably reported to carry a human aloft.
- He is commonly credited as the first person to understand the underlying principles and forces of heavier-than-air flight: weight, lift, drag and thrust.
- He was also the inventor of the wire wheel.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The George Cayley article was read about 36,000 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 55: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get George Cayley
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, George Cayley (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Henry Perronet Briggs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
