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Simon Tatham, a Common card
Simon Tatham is a British computer programmer.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 35
- DEF
- 23
- Power
- 58
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 58 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 5 % of WikiCards cards.
Simon Tatham quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Simon Tatham card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
All of them run natively on ______ DS, Symbian S60, Unix, and Windows.
Answer
Nintendo. All of them run natively on Nintendo DS, Symbian S60, Unix, and Windows. From the Simon Tatham article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Focus. Focus 44 · Joseph Hippolyt Pulte 41 · Kalette 38 · Simon Tatham 35 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Focus. Focus 20,000 · The Holy Family 15,000 · Simon Tatham 12,000 · Joseph Hippolyt Pulte 230 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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 created and maintains PuTTY, a free software implementation of Secure Shell and Telnet for Microsoft Windows and Unix, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
- He is also the original author of Netwide Assembler, and maintains a collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games.
- All of them run natively on Nintendo DS, Symbian S60, Unix, and Windows.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Simon Tatham article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 35 and blocks with 23: each hit it takes is cut by 9 %.
How to get Simon Tatham
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Simon Tatham in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Thorvald EirikssonCommon · History · ATK 42 DEF 16
- Banu YamCommon · Society · ATK 45 DEF 13
- KaletteCommon · Society · ATK 38 DEF 20
- Al Nahda, DubaiCommon · Society · ATK 40 DEF 18
- Gareth ChilcottCommon · Society · ATK 43 DEF 15
- James Martin EderCommon · Society · ATK 47 DEF 11
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Simon Tatham (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Richard Kettlewell, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
