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Rare card · Nature
Giant's Causeway, a Rare card
The Giant's Causeway is an area of approximately 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption, part of the North Atlantic Igneous Province active in the region during the Paleogene period.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 340,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Giant's Causeway quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Giant's Causeway card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles northeast of ______.
Answer
Bushmills. It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles northeast of Bushmills. From the Giant's Causeway article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In a ____ poll of Radio Times readers, the Giant's Causeway was named the fourth-greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom.
Answer
2000s. In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the Giant's Causeway was named the fourth-greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom. From the Giant's Causeway article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Actinopterygii. Actinopterygii 76 · Joseph Bonanno 73 · Giant's Causeway 70 · Rock parrot 67 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.
- It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles northeast of Bushmills.
- It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 and a national nature reserve by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland in 1987.
- In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the Giant's Causeway was named the fourth-greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Giant's Causeway article was read about 340,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Giant's Causeway
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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- Baudouin of BelgiumRare · History · ATK 73 DEF 67
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Giant's Causeway (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : code poet on flickr., CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
