Unlike the students at Hogwarts, most British wizards were rather baffled when they saw the Wizard Card Tournament advertisement in the Daily Prophet.
What was Wizard Card? Many wizards genuinely had no idea.
However, once they noticed the One Hundred Galleon prize for the champion, they became somewhat interested in this so-called Wizard Card.
A prize of One Hundred Galleons was not particularly high for most competitive events, but it was hardly low either. It was equivalent to most wizards' monthly wages, which was still quite appealing to many of them. After all, plenty of people knew how to play cards and thought they were fairly good at it, so they assumed Wizard Card was probably some kind of card game. They planned to first learn the rules and then try their luck.
"You mean Wizard Card? I do know about that. I heard Mr. Anderson invented it with his friends while he was at Hogwarts. It's currently sold at the House of Fun..."
Having received Galleons, Old Tom enthusiastically introduced Wizard Card to the customers before him. The main reason, naturally, was George's promise. For every contestant Old Tom recruited for the Wizard Card Tournament, he would receive an additional Galleon.
To that end, Old Tom generously allowed Fred and George to put up Wizard Card Tournament advertisements in the Leaky Cauldron.
Before leaving, the twin brothers gave Old Tom several Wizard Card magazines to distribute to anyone interested in Wizard Card.
However, after reading the magazines and discovering that Wizard Card was not the card game they had imagined, many wizards lost interest in the Wizard Card Tournament advertised in the newspaper. Still, there were always one or two people who took an interest in Wizard Card—or rather, in Galleons.
Yes, compared with Wizard Card, Galleons were undoubtedly