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Rare card · Science
Horsepower, a Rare card
Horsepower is a unit of measurement of power, or the rate at which work is done, usually in reference to the output of engines or motors.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 75
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 340,000
Power 151 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Horsepower quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Horsepower card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
There are many different ______ and types of horsepower.
Answer
standards. There are many different standards and types of horsepower. From the Horsepower article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of WWE pay-per-view and livestreaming supercards. List of WWE pay-per-view and livestreaming supercards 95 · Horsepower 76 · Edwin Boring 72 · Annie Montague Alexander 69 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
List of WWE pay-per-view and livestreaming supercards. List of WWE pay-per-view and livestreaming supercards 2,800,000 · Horsepower 340,000 · Edwin Boring 4,700 · List of United States post offices in New Jersey 460 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.
- There are many different standards and types of horsepower.
- Two common definitions used today are the imperial horsepower, abbreviated hp or bhp, which is about 745.7 watts, and the metric horsepower, also represented as cv or PS, which is approximately 735.5 watts.
- The electric horsepower, hpE, is exactly 746 watts, while the boiler horsepower is 9809.5 or 9811 watts, depending on the exact year.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Horsepower article was read about 340,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 75: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Horsepower
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, Horsepower (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User:Sgbeer, adapted by User:Martinvl, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
