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Khanhoo, a Common card
Khanhoo or kanhu is a non-partnership Chinese card game of the draw-and-discard structure.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 128
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,700
Power 128 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Khanhoo quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Khanhoo card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Meaning "watch the pot", it is very possibly the ______ of all rummy games.
Answer
ancestor. Meaning "watch the pot", it is very possibly the ancestor of all rummy games. From the Khanhoo article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Allan Grice. Allan Grice 80 · 1936 United States presidential election in North Dakota 76 · Vazgen Manukyan 71 · Khanhoo 66 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.
- It was first recorded during the late Ming dynasty as a multi-trick taking game, a type of game that may be as old as Tien gow, revised in its rules and published in an authorized edition by Emperor Gaozong of Song in 1130 AD for the information of his subjects.
- Meaning "watch the pot", it is very possibly the ancestor of all rummy games.
- Adapted to the western taste by Sir William Henry Wilkinson, British sinologist and Consul-General in China and Korea from 1880 to 1918, it belongs to the same family as Mahjong.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Khanhoo article was read about 5,700 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 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Khanhoo
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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The cards just above and just below Khanhoo in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Huntington Museum of ArtCommon · Arts · ATK 65 DEF 63
- Ray LankesterCommon · History · ATK 70 DEF 58
- Shanshan FengCommon · Society · ATK 69 DEF 59
- Bearwood HouseCommon · Arts · ATK 63 DEF 65
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Khanhoo (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Chas Goodall, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
