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Uncommon card · Science
Robert Ripley, an Uncommon card
LeRoy Robert Ripley was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, television show, and radio show, which feature odd facts from around the world.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 34
- Power
- 94
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 57,000
Power 94 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Robert Ripley quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Robert Ripley card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Subjects covered in Ripley's ______ and text ranged from sports feats to little-known facts about unusual and exotic sites.
Answer
cartoons. Subjects covered in Ripley's cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little-known facts about unusual and exotic sites. From the Robert Ripley article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Robert Ripley. Robert Ripley 60 · Aerobics 57 · Robert C. Martin 54 · Alluvium 50 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.
- Subjects covered in Ripley's cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little-known facts about unusual and exotic sites.
- He also included items submitted by readers, who supplied photographs of a wide variety of small-town American trivia ranging from unusually shaped vegetables to oddly marked domestic animals, all documented by photographs and then depicted by his drawings.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Robert Ripley article was read about 57,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 34: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Robert Ripley
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, Robert Ripley (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Press release says "From Ripley Office"., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
