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John Harington, an Uncommon card
Sir John Harington was an English courtier, author and translator popularly known as the inventor of the flush toilet.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 102
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Power 102 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
John Harington quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the John Harington card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Édouard Balladur. Édouard Balladur 70 · Ottokar II of Bohemia 66 · John Harington 63 · List of presidents of FIFA 57 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh. Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh 1,200,000 · List of presidents of FIFA 280,000 · John Harington 140,000 · Heian-kyō 98,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- Born in Kelston, Somerset, he became prominent at Queen Elizabeth I's court, and was known as her "saucy Godson", but his poetry and other writings caused him to fall in and out of favour with the Queen.
- He was the author of the description of a flush toilet forerunner installed in his Kelston house, which appeared in A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax, a political allegory and coded attack on the monarchy which is nowadays his best-known work.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Harington article was read about 140,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get John Harington
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, John Harington (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Circle of Hieronimo Custodis, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
