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Penney's game, an Uncommon card
Penney's game, also known as Penney Ante, named after its inventor Walter Penney, is a binary sequence generating game between two players.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 25
- Power
- 85
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Power 85 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Penney's game quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Penney's game card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ whose sequence appears first wins.
Answer
player. The player whose sequence appears first wins. From the Penney's game article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Penney's game. Penney's game 60 · Fluorapatite 56 · Bungalow 53 · New Hampshire's congressional districts 50 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.
- Player A selects a sequence of heads and tails, and shows this sequence to player B. Player B then selects another sequence of heads and tails of the same length.
- Subsequently, a fair coin is tossed until either player A's or player B's sequence appears as a consecutive subsequence of the coin toss outcomes.
- The player whose sequence appears first wins.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Penney's game article was read about 20,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 25: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Penney's game
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.
More Society cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Penney's game in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Slurry wallUncommon · Science · ATK 52 DEF 33
- Acharya Nagarjuna UniversityUncommon · Society · ATK 52 DEF 33
- FluorapatiteUncommon · Science · ATK 56 DEF 29
- Ryoichi IkegamiUncommon · Science · ATK 55 DEF 30
- SporophyteUncommon · Nature · ATK 54 DEF 31
- Achromobacter xylosoxidansUncommon · Nature · ATK 50 DEF 35
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Society cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Penney's game (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Cmglee, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
