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Epic card · Science
Guillotine, an Epic card
A guillotine is an apparatus designed for effectively carrying out executions by beheading.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 159
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 550,000
Power 159 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Guillotine quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Guillotine card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a ______ and angled blade suspended at the top.
Answer
weighted. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top. From the Guillotine article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Petroleum. Petroleum 89 · Slot machine 83 · Tomitaro Makino 79 · Guillotine 75 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Sergey Brin. Sergey Brin 1,300,000 · Guillotine 550,000 · Jim Simons 390,000 · Tomitaro Makino 4,300 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.
- The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top.
- The condemned person is secured with a pillory at the bottom of the frame, holding the position of the neck directly below the blade.
- The blade is then released, swiftly and forcefully decapitating the victim with a single, clean pass, the head falls into a basket or other receptacle below.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Guillotine article was read about 550,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Guillotine
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 Guillotine in the power ranking, all domains together.
- CaracasEpic · Society · ATK 83 DEF 76
- David RobinsonEpic · History · ATK 82 DEF 77
- John DiMaggioEpic · Arts · ATK 80 DEF 79
- HiroshimaEpic · Society · ATK 80 DEF 79
- ElEpic · Arts · ATK 78 DEF 81
- JezebelEpic · History · ATK 75 DEF 84
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Guillotine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Christian Ries, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
