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Xylophone, an Uncommon card
The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 133
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 133 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Xylophone quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Xylophone card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The term xylophone may be used generally, to include all such instruments such as the marimba, balafon and even the ______.
Answer
semantron. The term xylophone may be used generally, to include all such instruments such as the marimba, balafon and even the semantron. From the Xylophone article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Bebop. Bebop 170,000 · Xylophone 130,000 · Newport Folk Festival 85,000 · Barbershop music 49,000 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.
- Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use.
- The term xylophone may be used generally, to include all such instruments such as the marimba, balafon and even the semantron.
- However, in the orchestra, the term xylophone refers specifically to a chromatic instrument of somewhat higher pitch range and drier timbre than the marimba, and these two instruments should not be confused.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Xylophone article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Xylophone
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, Xylophone (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : SweetCanadianMullet, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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