WikiCards
Play on iPhone nowFree in Safari. Add it to your Home Screen.Play
WikiCards · Card list · Arts cards · Walker Percy
Uncommon card · Arts
Walker Percy, an Uncommon card
Walker Percy, OblSB was an American writer whose works explored alienation, existentialism, faith, and the limits of science in modern life.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 80,000
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Walker Percy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Walker Percy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His first, The ______, won the National Book Award for Fiction.
Answer
Moviegoer. His first, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction. From the Walker Percy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Jonathan Hickman. Jonathan Hickman 79 · Yohannes IV 75 · Walker Percy 72 · São Vicente, Cape Verde 67 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.
- A prominent Southern and Catholic literary figure, Percy is especially noted for his novels set in New Orleans.
- His first, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction.
- Both of Percy's parents died in likely suicides, and he was raised by his lawyer and poet cousin William Alexander Percy in Mississippi.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Walker Percy article was read about 80,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Walker Percy
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.
More Arts cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Walker Percy in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Da LatUncommon · History · ATK 71 DEF 64
- SocialityUncommon · Nature · ATK 70 DEF 65
- São Vicente, Cape VerdeUncommon · Nature · ATK 67 DEF 68
- Yohannes IVUncommon · History · ATK 75 DEF 60
- Euclidean vectorUncommon · Science · ATK 79 DEF 56
- Har Gobind KhoranaUncommon · Society · ATK 71 DEF 64
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Arts cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Walker Percy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Aspen Institute Pictures, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
