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Uncommon card · History
The Shambles, an Uncommon card
The Shambles is a historic street in York, England, featuring preserved medieval buildings, some dating to the 14th century.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 112
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 78,000
Power 112 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The Shambles quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the The Shambles card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The word shambles derives from Old English sċeamol, ______ to vendors' or butchers' stalls.
Answer
referring. The word shambles derives from Old English sċeamol, referring to vendors' or butchers' stalls. From the The Shambles article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Biskra. Biskra 70 · Trajan Langdon 66 · Cannonball Adderley 63 · The Shambles 59 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.
- Running between Newgate in the north and Pavement in the south, the street is narrow, with many timber-framed buildings with jettied floors which overhang the street by several feet.
- It was once known as the "Great Flesh Shambles", a name reflecting its historical use as a butchers' street.
- The word shambles derives from Old English sċeamol, referring to vendors' or butchers' stalls.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The Shambles article was read about 78,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get The Shambles
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 Shambles (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Peter K Burian, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
