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Giant clam, an Uncommon card
Tridacna gigas, the giant clam, is the best-known species of the giant clam genus Tridacna.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 148
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 95,000
Power 148 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Giant clam quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Giant clam card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Giant clams are the largest living bivalve ______.
Answer
molluscs. Giant clams are the largest living bivalve molluscs. From the Giant clam article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
These clams were known to indigenous peoples of East Asia for thousands of years and the Venetian scholar and explorer Antonio Pigafetta documented them in a journal as early as ____.
Answer
1520s. These clams were known to indigenous peoples of East Asia for thousands of years and the Venetian scholar and explorer Antonio Pigafetta documented them in a journal as early as 1521. From the Giant clam article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Liancourt Rocks. Liancourt Rocks 120,000 · Giant clam 95,000 · Atlantic Forest 56,000 · Lake Assal 44,000 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.
- Giant clams are the largest living bivalve molluscs.
- Several other species of "giant clam" in the genus Tridacna are often misidentified as Tridacna gigas.
- These clams were known to indigenous peoples of East Asia for thousands of years and the Venetian scholar and explorer Antonio Pigafetta documented them in a journal as early as 1521.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Giant clam article was read about 95,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Giant clam
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, Giant clam (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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