Name a galaxy
How many answers can you give to “Name a galaxy”? OnlyClick knows 65 of them, and rewards the ones other people miss. Milky Way, Andromeda and Sombrero are what most people type first, so they score the least. It is a fairly short list: only 40 answers sit in the two rarest tiers, so reaching one takes real knowledge.
Astronomers name far more things than the news ever mentions, which leaves plenty of room above the crowd. You will find it in stage 13, “Island Universes”, 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- Milky Way
- Andromeda
- Sombrero
- Whirlpool
- Large Magellanic Cloud
- Magellanic Clouds
- Triangulum
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- Pinwheel
These are the 9 answers we rate as most common, out of the 65 we know. They score the least. The other 56, including every rare one, stay inside the game.
How the 65 answers are spread
| EVERYONE | 3 |
| THE CROWD | 6 |
| SOME | 8 |
| A FEW | 8 |
| ALMOST NOBODY | 30 |
| ONLY YOU | 10 |
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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- A galaxy in our Local Group
- A word or phrase that starts with "galaxy"
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