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Rare card · History
John Smith, a Rare card
John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, admiral of New England, and author.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 310,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
John Smith quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the John Smith card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Báthory, Prince of ______, and his friend Mózes Székely.
Answer
Transylvania. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely. From the John Smith article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Quito. Quito 84 · John Smith 80 · Matt Prater 77 · Storming of the Bastille 73 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.
- He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely.
- Following his return to England from a life as a soldier of fortune and as a slave, he played an important role in the establishment of the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in the early 17th century.
- He was a leader of the Virginia Colony between September 1608 and August 1609, and he led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay, during which he became the first English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Smith article was read about 310,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get John Smith
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 Smith (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Book by Capt. John Smith, engraver uncertain, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
