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Irvine Welsh, a Rare card
Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 133
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 200,000
Power 133 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Irvine Welsh quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Irvine Welsh card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Welsh is best known for his ____ debut novel Trainspotting, which was adapted into a film of the same name, both were highly acclaimed and have become cult classics in their respective mediums.
Answer
1990s. Welsh is best known for his 1993 debut novel Trainspotting, which was adapted into a film of the same name, both were highly acclaimed and have become cult classics in their respective mediums. From the Irvine Welsh article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ivanhoe. Ivanhoe 78 · Cyrano de Bergerac 75 · Irvine Welsh 72 · Vincenzo Peruggia 69 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.
- His novels and short stories, which almost always take place in his native Scotland, are known for their gritty depictions of working-class life and its intricacies, particularly drug addiction, social alienation, lack of opportunity and boredom, amongst others.
- Welsh is best known for his 1993 debut novel Trainspotting, which was adapted into a film of the same name, both were highly acclaimed and have become cult classics in their respective mediums.
- The novel was ranked 7th in a 2016 public poll of the best Scottish novels of all time, while its film adaptation was named the best Scottish film of all time in an equivalent 2004 poll.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Irvine Welsh article was read about 200,000 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 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Irvine Welsh
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, Irvine Welsh (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : TimDuncan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
