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Uncommon card · History
Polybolos, an Uncommon card
The polybolos was an ancient Greek repeating ballista, reputedly invented by Dionysius of Alexandria and used in antiquity.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 53
- DEF
- 33
- Power
- 86
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 53,000
Power 86 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Polybolos quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Polybolos card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The polybolos was not a ______ since it used a torsion mechanism, drawing its power from twisted sinew-bundles.
Answer
crossbow. The polybolos was not a crossbow since it used a torsion mechanism, drawing its power from twisted sinew-bundles. From the Polybolos article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Jean Louis. Jean Louis 60 · Mohammad Mustafa 57 · Polybolos 53 · HMS Merope 49 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Mohammad Mustafa. Mohammad Mustafa 79,000 · Polybolos 53,000 · Marcel Héraud 220 · HMS Merope 150 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.
- The polybolos was not a crossbow since it used a torsion mechanism, drawing its power from twisted sinew-bundles.
- However the earlier and similar oxybeles employed a tension crossbow mechanism, before it was abandoned in favor of torsion.
- Philo of Byzantium encountered and described a weapon similar to the polybolos, a catapult that could fire again and again without a need for manual reloading.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Polybolos article was read about 53,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 53 and blocks with 33: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
How to get Polybolos
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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The cards just above and just below Polybolos in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Otmar SzafnauerUncommon · Science · ATK 55 DEF 31
- Silvana GallardoUncommon · Arts · ATK 48 DEF 38
- William TravillaUncommon · Arts · ATK 54 DEF 32
- Jean LouisUncommon · Arts · ATK 60 DEF 26
- Marc EckoUncommon · Arts · ATK 52 DEF 34
- London dispersion forceUncommon · Science · ATK 59 DEF 27
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Polybolos (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : SBA73, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
