Name a star that has its own name (the Sun counts)
How many answers can you give to “Name a star that has its own name (the Sun counts)”? OnlyClick knows 115 of them, and rewards the ones other people miss. Sun, Sirius and Polaris are what most people type first, so they score the least. About 46% of the list is rated Almost Nobody or Only You, which leaves plenty of room to get away from the crowd.
Astronomers name far more things than the news ever mentions, which leaves plenty of room above the crowd. You will find it in stage 18, “Night-Sky Tour”, 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- Sun
- Sirius
- Polaris
- Betelgeuse
- Vega
- Proxima Centauri
- Rigel
- Alpha Centauri
- Arcturus
- Antares
- Aldebaran
- Altair
- Deneb
- Capella
- Canopus
These are the 15 answers we rate as most common, out of the 115 we know. They score the least. The other 100, including every rare one, stay inside the game.
How the 115 answers are spread
| EVERYONE | 8 |
| THE CROWD | 11 |
| SOME | 8 |
| A FEW | 35 |
| ALMOST NOBODY | 47 |
| ONLY YOU | 6 |
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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