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Raymond Carver, an Uncommon card
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. was an American short story writer and poet.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 55
- Power
- 129
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 180,000
Power 129 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Raymond Carver quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Raymond Carver card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He published his first collection of ______, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976.
Answer
stories. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976. From the Raymond Carver article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Raymond Carver. Raymond Carver 74 · Graham Coxon 71 · Weegee 67 · Husky 62 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.
- He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976.
- His breakout collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, received immediate acclaim and established Carver as an important figure in the literary world.
- It was followed by Cathedral, which Carver considered his watershed and is widely regarded as his masterpiece.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Raymond Carver 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 74 and blocks with 55: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Raymond Carver
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, Raymond Carver (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
