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Uncommon card · Nature
Head louse, an Uncommon card
The head louse is an obligate ectoparasite of humans.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 89
- Power
- 161
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 161 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Head louse quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Head louse card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Other species of lice infest most orders of ______ and all orders of birds.
Answer
mammals. Other species of lice infest most orders of mammals and all orders of birds. From the Head louse article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Evolution of sexual reproduction. Evolution of sexual reproduction 83 · Extremophile 79 · Bornean orangutan 75 · Head louse 72 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Bornean orangutan. Bornean orangutan 160,000 · Head louse 110,000 · Black-backed jackal 88,000 · Greater Orlando 69,000 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.
- Head lice are wingless insects that spend their entire lives on the human scalp and feed exclusively on human blood.
- Humans are the only known hosts of this specific parasite, while chimpanzees and bonobos host a closely related species, Pediculus schaeffi.
- Other species of lice infest most orders of mammals and all orders of birds.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Head louse article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 89: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Head louse
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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The cards just above and just below Head louse in the power ranking, all domains together.
- AngleUncommon · Science · ATK 78 DEF 83
- BektashismUncommon · Society · ATK 80 DEF 81
- Belén RodríguezUncommon · Society · ATK 80 DEF 81
- Mateusz MorawieckiUncommon · History · ATK 80 DEF 81
- Mesha SteleUncommon · Arts · ATK 78 DEF 83
- Patrice BergeronUncommon · Society · ATK 81 DEF 80
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Head louse (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gilles San Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
