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Hugo Ball, an Uncommon card
Hugo Ball was a German author, poet, and essentially the founder of the Dada movement in European art in Zürich in 1916.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 35
- Power
- 93
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 37,000
Power 93 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Hugo Ball quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hugo Ball card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Among other ______, he was a pioneer in the development of sound poetry.
Answer
accomplishments. Among other accomplishments, he was a pioneer in the development of sound poetry. From the Hugo Ball article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Hugo Ball was a German author, poet, and essentially the founder of the Dada movement in European art in Zürich in ____.
Answer
1910s. Hugo Ball was a German author, poet, and essentially the founder of the Dada movement in European art in Zürich in 1916. From the Hugo Ball article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Valentin Debise. Valentin Debise 68 · Howard Greenfield 62 · Hugo Ball 58 · Sheila Bernette 55 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- Among other accomplishments, he was a pioneer in the development of sound poetry.
- His best known works include the "Dada Manifesto", the Dadaist nonsense poem "Karawane", the poetry collection 7 schizophrene Sonette, the edited diary Flight out of Time, the Christian anarchist polemic book Critique of the German Intelligentsia and the novels Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor and Tenderenda the Fantast.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hugo Ball article was read about 37,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 35: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Hugo Ball
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, Hugo Ball (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
