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Pieter de Hooch, an Uncommon card
Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch (Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈɦɛndrɪksoːn də ˈɦoːx], also spelled Hoogh or Hooghe, bapt.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 150
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 150 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Pieter de Hooch quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Pieter de Hooch card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was a ______, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his work shares themes and style.
Answer
contemporary. He was a contemporary, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his work shares themes and style. From the Pieter de Hooch article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
De Hooch was first recorded in Delft on 5 August ____, when he and another painter, Hendrick van der Burgh witnessed the signing of a will.
Answer
1650s. De Hooch was first recorded in Delft on 5 August 1652, when he and another painter, Hendrick van der Burgh witnessed the signing of a will. From the Pieter de Hooch article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Frances Marion. Frances Marion 21,000 · Pieter de Hooch 16,000 · Louis Andriessen 12,000 · Vyacheslav Zaitsev 7,900 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.
- 20 December 1629 – in or after 1679), was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway.
- He was a contemporary, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his work shares themes and style.
- De Hooch was first recorded in Delft on 5 August 1652, when he and another painter, Hendrick van der Burgh witnessed the signing of a will.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Pieter de Hooch article was read about 16,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Pieter de Hooch
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, Pieter de Hooch (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Attributed to Pieter de Hooch, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
