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HMS Experiment, a Common card
HMS Experiment was a 44-gun fifth-rate Roebuck-class ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1784.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 123
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 860
Power 123 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
HMS Experiment quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the HMS Experiment card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ship spent her ______ career serving as a troop ship, store ship, or lazarette.
Answer
entire. The ship spent her entire career serving as a troop ship, store ship, or lazarette. From the HMS Experiment article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
HMS Experiment was a 44-gun fifth-rate Roebuck-class ship of the Royal Navy launched in ____.
Answer
1780s. HMS Experiment was a 44-gun fifth-rate Roebuck-class ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1784. From the HMS Experiment article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Manuel Baquedano. Manuel Baquedano 6,400 · Eden Cemetery 3,900 · Janaina Paschoal 2,000 · HMS Experiment 860 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 ship spent her entire career serving as a troop ship, store ship, or lazarette.
- Initially stationed in the West Indies, Experiment participated in the Battle of Martinique and Invasion of Guadeloupe in 1794.
- While travelling to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1797, the ship captured several high-value Spanish merchant ships, and subsequently returned to Britain.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The HMS Experiment article was read about 860 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get HMS Experiment
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, HMS Experiment (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Thomas Buttersworth, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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