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Piet Hein, an Uncommon card
Piet Hein was a Danish polymath, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym Kumbel, meaning "tombstone".
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 38
- Power
- 97
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 97 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Piet Hein quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Piet Hein card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He also ______ the Soma cube and the board game Hex.
Answer
invented. He also invented the Soma cube and the board game Hex. From the Piet Hein article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
His short poems, known as gruks or grooks, first started to appear in the daily newspaper Politiken shortly after the German occupation of Denmark in April ____ under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell".
Answer
1940s. His short poems, known as gruks or grooks, first started to appear in the daily newspaper Politiken shortly after the German occupation of Denmark in April 1940 under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell". From the Piet Hein article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Eddie Gómez. Eddie Gómez 67 · Allan Kaprow 62 · Piet Hein 59 · Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern 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.
- His short poems, known as gruks or grooks, first started to appear in the daily newspaper Politiken shortly after the German occupation of Denmark in April 1940 under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell".
- He also invented the Soma cube and the board game Hex.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Piet Hein article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Piet Hein
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Piet Hein (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : André Savik, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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