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Indus, a Common card
Indus is a constellation in the southern sky first professionally surveyed by Europeans in the 1590s and mapped on a globe by Petrus Plancius by early 1598.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 57
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 106
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 14,000
Power 106 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Indus quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Indus card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is elongated from north to south and has a ______ boundary.
Answer
complex. It is elongated from north to south and has a complex boundary. From the Indus article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
It was included on a plate illustrating southern constellations in Bayer's sky atlas Uranometria in ____.
Answer
1600s. It was included on a plate illustrating southern constellations in Bayer's sky atlas Uranometria in 1603. From the Indus article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Chemical thermodynamics. Chemical thermodynamics 66 · Endre Szemerédi 62 · Indus 57 · Continental margin 52 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.
- It was included on a plate illustrating southern constellations in Bayer's sky atlas Uranometria in 1603.
- It lies well south of the Tropic of Capricorn, but its triangular shape can be seen for most of the year from the Equator.
- It is elongated from north to south and has a complex boundary.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Indus article was read about 14,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 57 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Indus
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 Indus in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Richard GarwinCommon · Science · ATK 63 DEF 43
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Indus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
