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The Man in Seat Sixty-One, a Common card
The Man in Seat Sixty-One is a British travel website created, written and maintained by Mark Smith, a former rail industry worker.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 57
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 96
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Ranked #2,824 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The Man in Seat Sixty-One quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the The Man in Seat Sixty-One card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The website focuses almost exclusively on train-based travel, with occasional ferry ______.
Answer
recommendations. The website focuses almost exclusively on train-based travel, with occasional ferry recommendations. From the The Man in Seat Sixty-One article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The site has won several awards, including "Best Travel Website" in the Guardian & Observer Travel Awards in ____.
Answer
2000s. The site has won several awards, including "Best Travel Website" in the Guardian & Observer Travel Awards in 2008. From the The Man in Seat Sixty-One article on Wikipedia.
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.
- The website focuses almost exclusively on train-based travel, with occasional ferry recommendations.
- The site has won several awards, including "Best Travel Website" in the Guardian & Observer Travel Awards in 2008.
- The Man in Seat Sixty-One provides information on the best routes, fares and times for journeys from the UK to most of Europe, and for rail travel within most countries in the rest of the world, including exhaustive coverage of the Indian Railways and Russian Railways.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The Man in Seat Sixty-One article was read about 11,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 57 and blocks with 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get The Man in Seat Sixty-One
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 Man in Seat Sixty-One (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Paul Sladen, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
