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Epic card · Arts
The Canterbury Tales, an Epic card
The Canterbury Tales is an anthology of twenty-four short stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 165
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 520,000
Power 165 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The Canterbury Tales quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the The Canterbury Tales card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The Tales had a major effect upon the development of ______ literature itself.
Answer
English. The Tales had a major effect upon the development of English literature itself. From the The Canterbury Tales article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Wendell Berry. Wendell Berry 89 · Disneyland 86 · The Canterbury Tales 80 · The Starry Night 75 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.
- They are mostly in verse, and are presented as part of a fictional storytelling contest held by a group of pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury in order to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
- The Canterbury Tales are widely regarded as Chaucer's magnum opus, and they are revered as one of the paramount works of English literature.
- The Tales had a major effect upon the development of English literature itself.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The Canterbury Tales article was read about 520,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get The Canterbury Tales
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, The Canterbury Tales (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : DemonDays64, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
