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Paul Graham, an Uncommon card
Paul Graham is an English-American computer scientist, writer, essayist, entrepreneur, and investor.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 50
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 180,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Paul Graham quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Paul Graham card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is the author of the ______ programming books On Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp, and Hackers & Painters.
Answer
computer. He is the author of the computer programming books On Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp, and Hackers & Painters. From the Paul Graham article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 73 · Indrajith Sukumaran 68 · Paul Graham 64 · Rachel 60 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.
- His work includes the programming language Arc, the startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo!
- Store), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, a number of essays and books, and the media webpage Hacker News.
- He is the author of the computer programming books On Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp, and Hackers & Painters.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Paul Graham article was read about 180,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 50: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Paul Graham
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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- RachelUncommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 54
- Elvin BishopUncommon · Arts · ATK 65 DEF 49
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Paul Graham (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Crédit photo: Sarah Harlin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
