Often, you will wish to create cards out of sentences that express several facts, such as the following:

The capital city of New Zealand is Wellington, which is located in the North Island and has a population of about 400,000.

There is more than one fact in this statement – you could create a single 'simple' card with all the facts marked as cloze text, like so:

The capital city of [New Zealand] is [Wellington], which is located in the [North||North/South] Island and has a population of about [400,000].

But this card will be difficult to remember. If you get just one of the 4 hidden facts wrong, you will fail the card. A card like this is likely to become a leech.

A better way to express all these facts using 'simple' cards is to create several cards, with one fact per card. You might end up with something like this:

* Fact The capital city of [New Zealand] is Wellington, which has a population of about 400,000. * Fact The capital city of New Zealand is [Wellington], which has a population of about 400,000. * Fact The capital city of New Zealand is Wellington, which has a population of about [400,000]. * Fact The capital city of [New Zealand] is Wellington, which is located in the the North Island. * Fact The capital city of New Zealand is [Wellington], which is located in the North Island. * Fact The capital city of New Zealand is Wellington, which is located in the [North||North/South] Island.

However, this is really cumbersome. Multicloze card types exist for this situation. Multicloze cards behave like 'simple' cards, except that when there is more than one area marked as cloze text, some but not all of the areas can be hidden. There are several types of predefined multicloze card:

hide1cloze – one of the marked areas is hidden during review; the others all remain visible. The hidden text area is chosen randomly at each review. (Note: this type used to be called 'multicloze', and that card type is retained as a synonym for 'hide1cloze'.) show1cloze – only one of the marked areas is visible during review; all the others are hidden. The hidden text area is chosen randomly at each review. hide2cloze – like hide1cloze, but 2 marked pieces of text will be hidden, and the rest will be visible. show2cloze – like show1cloze, but 2 marked pieces of text will be visible, the rest are hidden.

There are also some types of multicloze card where some pieces have an increased or decreased chance of being hidden. These are intended for use when studying languages: generally it is easy to translate a foreign-language sentence into your own language if you have met it before, but it is much harder to translate in the other direction. Therefore, you will want to test the harder direction more often.

hide1_firstmore – only one of the marked pieces of text will be hidden. 75% of the time (guaranteed), the first piece is hidden; the rest of the time, one of the other pieces is randomly hidden. show1_firstless – only one of the marked pieces of text will be visible. Only 25% of the time (guaranteed) will the first piece will be visible; the rest of the time, one of the other pieces is randomly visible. show1_lastmore – only one of the marked pieces of text will be visible. 75% of the time (guaranteed), the last piece will be visible; the rest of the time, one of the other pieces is randomly visible.

So, for the above example, we can actually use the original 'bad' simple card, but change its card type to 'hide1cloze'. Each time the card is presented for review, one of 'New Zealand', 'Wellington', 'the South Island' or '400,000' will be hidden.

* Fact :PROPERTIES: :DRILL_CARD_TYPE: hide1cloze :END: The capital city of [New Zealand] is [Wellington], which is located in the [North||North/South] Island and has a population of about [400,000].