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Thomas Wright, a Common card
Thomas Wright was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 36
- Power
- 92
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,300
Power 92 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Thomas Wright quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Thomas Wright card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way and to ______ that faint nebulæ were distant galaxies.
Answer
speculate. He was the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way and to speculate that faint nebulæ were distant galaxies. From the Thomas Wright article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Thomas Wright. Thomas Wright 4,300 · Pierre Jean Robiquet 3,300 · Order of the Friendship of Peoples 2,100 · Jonathan Simons 1,600 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 was the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way and to speculate that faint nebulæ were distant galaxies.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Thomas Wright article was read about 4,300 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 36: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Thomas Wright
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, Thomas Wright (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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