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Shrove Tuesday, a Rare card
Shrove Tuesday is the final day of Shrovetide, which marks the end of the pre-Lenten season.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 163
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 470,000
Power 163 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Shrove Tuesday quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Shrove Tuesday card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Lent begins the following day with Ash ______.
Answer
Wednesday. Lent begins the following day with Ash Wednesday. From the Shrove Tuesday article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Han Chinese. Han Chinese 96 · Oscar De La Hoya 84 · Kim Philby 81 · Shrove Tuesday 78 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.
- Lent begins the following day with Ash Wednesday.
- Shrove Tuesday is observed in many Christian countries through participating in confession, the ritual burning of the previous year's Holy Week palms, finalizing one's Lenten sacrifice, as well as eating pancakes and other sweets.
- Shrove Tuesday is observed by many Christians, including Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, Western-rite Orthodox Christians, and Roman Catholics, who "make a special point of self-examination, of considering what wrongs they need to repent, and what amendments of life or areas of spiritual growth they especially need to ask God's help in dealing with." This moveable feast is determined by the…
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Shrove Tuesday article was read about 470,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Shrove Tuesday
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, Shrove Tuesday (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
