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Uncommon card · History
Luddites, an Uncommon card
The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who protested the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns over worker pay, labour savings, child labour, working conditions, and output quality.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 133
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 60,000
Power 133 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Luddites quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Luddites card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
They often destroyed ______ machines in organised raids.
Answer
production. They often destroyed production machines in organised raids. From the Luddites article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Luddites. Luddites 73 · Line 70 · Orangery 67 · Dagobert I 64 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.
- They often destroyed production machines in organised raids.
- Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of "Ned Ludd", a legendary weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials.
- The Luddite movement began in Nottingham, England and spread to the North West and Yorkshire between 1811 and 1816.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Luddites article was read about 60,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Luddites
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Luddites (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown. 195 years since publication, copyright extinguished, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
