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Uncommon card · Science
Rifling, an Uncommon card
Rifling is the term for helical grooves machined into the internal surface of a firearm's barrel for imparting a spin to the fired projectile to improve its aerodynamic stability and accuracy.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 133
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Power 133 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Rifling quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Rifling card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is also the term for ______ such grooves.
Answer
creating. It is also the term for creating such grooves. From the Rifling article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Euclidean space. Euclidean space 75 · Rifling 72 · Ethyl acetate 67 · Gneiss 64 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.
- It is also the term for creating such grooves.
- Firearms without rifling are called smoothbore.
- Rifling is measured by twist rate, the distance the rifling takes to complete one full revolution, expressed as a ratio with 1 as its base.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Rifling article was read about 140,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Rifling
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, Rifling (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : baku13, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
