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Epic card · Science
Lunar New Year, an Epic card
Lunar New Year marks the beginning of a new year according to lunar calendars or, informally but commonly, to lunisolar calendars.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 83
- Power
- 159
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 640,000
Power 159 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Lunar New Year quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Lunar New Year card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Petroleum. Petroleum 89 · Tomitaro Makino 79 · Lunar New Year 76 · Josef Korbel School of International Studies 72 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Sergey Brin. Sergey Brin 1,300,000 · Lunar New Year 640,000 · Red and Purple Modernization Project 6,500 · Tomitaro Makino 4,300 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.
- Because a year of twelve lunar months is about 11 days shorter than a solar year, lunar cycle-based calendars may have strategies to take this fact into account.
- Pure lunar calendars have twelve lunar months invariantly and consequently their New Year is not fixed relative to the solar year, no adjustments are made.
- In contrast, most lunisolar calendars also have twelve lunar months, but every few years, a thirteenth "leap month" is added to resynchronise with the solar year.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lunar New Year article was read about 640,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 83: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Lunar New Year
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 Lunar New Year in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- The TemptationsEpic · Arts · ATK 84 DEF 75
- Vasco da GamaEpic · History · ATK 79 DEF 80
- Sun WukongEpic · Society · ATK 81 DEF 78
- AntonyEpic · Society · ATK 80 DEF 79
- PetroleumEpic · Science · ATK 89 DEF 70
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Lunar New Year (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Marines from Arlington, VA, United States, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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