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Uncommon card · Society
Marion Tinsley, an Uncommon card
Marion Franklin Tinsley was an American mathematician and checkers player.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 57
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 97
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 25,000
Power 97 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Marion Tinsley quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Marion Tinsley card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is widely considered the ______ checkers player ever.
Answer
greatest. He is widely considered the greatest checkers player ever. From the Marion Tinsley article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
James Farrior. James Farrior 63 · 2020 FA Community Shield 60 · Marion Tinsley 57 · Kemari 53 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 is widely considered the greatest checkers player ever.
- Tinsley was world champion from 1955–1958 and 1975–1991 and never lost a world championship match.
- He lost only seven games from 1950 until his death in 1995.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Marion Tinsley article was read about 25,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 57 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Marion Tinsley
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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- ConfraternityUncommon · Society · ATK 57 DEF 40
- Hamelia patensUncommon · Nature · ATK 50 DEF 47
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Marion Tinsley (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Foley, Mark T., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
