A famous giant, supergiant or hypergiant star
There are 43 answers to “A famous giant, supergiant or hypergiant star” in OnlyClick, and they do not all score the same. Most people go straight for Betelgeuse, Antares or Rigel, so those barely lift the rocket. It is a fairly short list: only 9 answers sit in the two rarest tiers, so reaching one takes real knowledge.
Space questions reward anyone who remembers the names behind the famous missions, not just the missions themselves. You will find it in stage 48, “Star Zoo”, of the Cosmos mission. The first stages of every mission are free, and later stages come with the full mission.
PLAY ONLYCLICK FREEThe most common answers
EVERYONE- Betelgeuse
- Antares
- Rigel
- Arcturus
- Aldebaran
- Deneb
- VY Canis Majoris
- UY Scuti
- Canopus
- Polaris
- Capella
- Pollux
- Spica
- Mu Cephei
- Eta Carinae
These are the 15 answers we rate as most common, out of the 43 we know. They score the least. The other 28, including every rare one, stay inside the game.
How the 43 answers are spread
| EVERYONE | 6 |
| THE CROWD | 9 |
| SOME | 4 |
| A FEW | 15 |
| ALMOST NOBODY | 7 |
| ONLY YOU | 2 |
The rarer your answer, the farther your rocket flies. Rarity is our own estimate of how few people would think of an answer. How to play.
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