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Uncommon card · Arts
Samuel Smiles, an Uncommon card
Samuel Smiles was a British author and government reformer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 124
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 124 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Samuel Smiles quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Samuel Smiles card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian ______" and had lasting effects on British political thought.
Answer
liberalism. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism" and had lasting effects on British political thought. From the Samuel Smiles article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Andy Souwer. Andy Souwer 75 · Patrick Côté 71 · Samuel Smiles 68 · Jože Plečnik 65 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.
- Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, he promoted the idea that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws.
- His primary work, Self-Help, promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government.
- It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism" and had lasting effects on British political thought.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Samuel Smiles article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Samuel Smiles
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, Samuel Smiles (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : George Reid, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
