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Jai alai, a Rare card
Jai alai is a Basque sport involving bouncing a ball against walls by accelerating it to high speeds with a xistera, a wicker basket-like glove.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 51
- Power
- 119
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 440,000
Power 119 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Jai alai quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Jai alai card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is a ______ of Basque pelota.
Answer
variation. It is a variation of Basque pelota. From the Jai alai article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The term jai alai, coined by Serafin Baroja in ____, is also often loosely applied to the fronton.
Answer
1870s. The term jai alai, coined by Serafin Baroja in 1875, is also often loosely applied to the fronton. From the Jai alai article on Wikipedia.
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 is a variation of Basque pelota.
- The term jai alai, coined by Serafin Baroja in 1875, is also often loosely applied to the fronton.
- The game, whose name means "merry festival" in Basque, is called zesta-punta in the Basque Country.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jai alai article was read about 440,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 51: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Jai alai
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jai alai (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jesus Abizanda from Barbastro, Huesca, Spain, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
