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Joan Aiken, an Uncommon card
Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 21,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Joan Aiken quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Joan Aiken card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her ______ to children's literature.
Answer
services. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. From the Joan Aiken article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Andrés Gómez. Andrés Gómez 71 · Joan Aiken 66 · Angelina Beloff 61 · Alexandre Benois 57 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.
- In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature.
- For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer.
- She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Night Fall.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Joan Aiken article was read about 21,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Joan Aiken
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Joan Aiken in the power ranking, all domains together.
- AristoxenusUncommon · Science · ATK 66 DEF 44
- Cecilia RouseUncommon · Science · ATK 62 DEF 48
- Charles DavenportUncommon · Science · ATK 65 DEF 45
- Andrés GómezUncommon · Society · ATK 71 DEF 39
- Anna CockrellUncommon · Society · ATK 67 DEF 43
- Erika McEntarferUncommon · Science · ATK 65 DEF 45
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Joan Aiken (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : LizzaAiken, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
