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Epic card · Science
Marathon, an Epic card
The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of 42.195 kilometres, usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 91
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 186
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 640,000
Power 186 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Marathon quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Marathon card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
There are also ______ divisions.
Answer
wheelchair. There are also wheelchair divisions. From the Marathon article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison 1,300,000 · Thomas Aquinas 960,000 · Marathon 640,000 · Postmodernism 370,000 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.
- The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy.
- There are also wheelchair divisions.
- More than 800 marathons are held worldwide each year, with the vast majority of competitors being recreational athletes, as larger marathons can have tens of thousands of participants.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Marathon 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 91 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Marathon
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, Marathon (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bratislavská župa from Bratislava, Slovakia, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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