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Uncommon card · Nature
Graupel, an Uncommon card
Graupel, also called soft hail, hominy snow, granular snow, snow pellets or popcorn snow, is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets in air are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming 2–5 mm balls of crisp, opaque rime.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 54
- DEF
- 46
- Power
- 100
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 100 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Graupel quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Graupel card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Graupel is distinct from hail and ice pellets in both formation and ______.
Answer
appearance. Graupel is distinct from hail and ice pellets in both formation and appearance. From the Graupel article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Songbird. Songbird 66 · Ourisia coccinea subsp. elegans 57 · Graupel 54 · Ackama australiensis 49 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Graupel. Graupel 150,000 · Cadomin Formation 930 · Nuphar sagittifolia 660 · Ourisia coccinea subsp. elegans 220 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.
- Graupel is distinct from hail and ice pellets in both formation and appearance.
- However, both hail and graupel are common in thunderstorms with cumulonimbus clouds, though graupel also falls in winter storms, and at higher elevations as well.
- The METAR code for graupel is GS.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Graupel article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 54 and blocks with 46: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Graupel
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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- SongbirdUncommon · Nature · ATK 66 DEF 34
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Graupel (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Famartin, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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