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Uncommon card · Science
Valerie Thomas, an Uncommon card
Valerie L. Thomas is an American data scientist and inventor.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 32,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Valerie Thomas quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Valerie Thomas card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She invented the ______ transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980.
Answer
illusion. She invented the illusion transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980. From the Valerie Thomas article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Serge Lang. Serge Lang 72 · Common Access Card 67 · Valerie Thomas 62 · Bell 430 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.
- She invented the illusion transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980.
- She was responsible for developing the digital media formats that image processing systems used in the early years of NASA's Landsat program.
- Being born in Baltimore, Maryland during racial segregation, Thomas had to overcome many barriers to graduate from Morgan State University.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Valerie Thomas article was read about 32,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Valerie Thomas
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, Valerie Thomas (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Adam Cuerden, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
