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Xiangqi, a Rare card
Xiangqi, commonly known in the West as Chinese chess, is a strategy board game for two players.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 210,000
Power 158 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Xiangqi quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Xiangqi card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is the most ______ board game in China.
Answer
popular. It is the most popular board game in China. From the Xiangqi article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Xiangqi. Xiangqi 84 · Mombasa 81 · Big Mac 76 · Walnut 71 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.
- It is the most popular board game in China.
- Xiangqi is in the same family of games as shogi, janggi, Western chess, chaturanga, and Indian chess.
- Besides China and areas with significant ethnic Chinese communities, this game is also a popular pastime in Vietnam, where it is known as cờ tướng, literally 'General's chess', in contrast with Western chess or cờ vua, literally 'King's chess'.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Xiangqi article was read about 210,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 74: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Xiangqi
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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The cards just above and just below Xiangqi in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- CircusUncommon · Arts · ATK 74 DEF 84
- Mainland Southeast AsiaUncommon · Nature · ATK 75 DEF 83
- RadishUncommon · Nature · ATK 73 DEF 85
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Xiangqi (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Inductiveload, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
