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Epic card · Nature
Hachikō, an Epic card
Hachikō was an Akita dog remembered for his strong dedication to his owner, Hidesaburō Ueno, for whom he continued to wait for almost ten years following Ueno's death in 1925.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 86
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 181
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 520,000
Power 181 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Hachikō quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hachikō card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Hachikō met Ueno at Shibuya Station every day after his ______ home.
Answer
commute. Hachikō met Ueno at Shibuya Station every day after his commute home. From the Hachikō article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Hachikō was an Akita dog remembered for his strong dedication to his owner, Hidesaburō Ueno, for whom he continued to wait for almost ten years following Ueno's death in ____.
Answer
1920s. Hachikō was an Akita dog remembered for his strong dedication to his owner, Hidesaburō Ueno, for whom he continued to wait for almost ten years following Ueno's death in 1925. From the Hachikō article on Wikipedia.
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.
- Hachikō was born in mid-November 1923, on a farm near Ōdate, Akita Prefecture, Japan.
- In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University, brought him to live in Shibuya, Tokyo, as his pet.
- Hachikō met Ueno at Shibuya Station every day after his commute home.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hachikō article was read about 520,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 86 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Hachikō
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, Hachikō (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
