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Uncommon card · Science
Granville Woods, an Uncommon card
Granville Tailer Woods was an American inventor who held more than 50 patents in the United States.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 128
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 55,000
Power 128 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Granville Woods quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Granville Woods card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Self-taught, he ______ most of his work on trains and streetcars.
Answer
concentrated. Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars. From the Granville Woods article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
1977–78 European Cup. 1977–78 European Cup 77 · The Starting Line 74 · James H. Clark 71 · Granville Woods 66 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 the first African American mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War.
- Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars.
- One of his inventions is the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph, a variation of the induction telegraph that relied on ambient static electricity from existing telegraph lines to send messages between train stations and moving trains.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Granville Woods article was read about 55,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Granville Woods
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Granville Woods in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Glass fiberUncommon · History · ATK 69 DEF 59
- 1977–78 European CupUncommon · Society · ATK 77 DEF 51
- First Epistle to TimothyUncommon · Arts · ATK 69 DEF 59
- John GibsonUncommon · History · ATK 70 DEF 58
- The Starting LineUncommon · Arts · ATK 74 DEF 54
- Alexandre MüllerUncommon · Society · ATK 73 DEF 55
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Granville Woods (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : William J. Simmons, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
