Celebrity Goo Game
Where pop-culture trivia makes funny faces.
How well do you know famous actors, musicians, athletes, newsmakers, and other celebrities? In Celebrity Goo Game, a distorted photograph of a famous person (a "goo") is published daily, along with a few hints. Guess correctly and you'll enter the monthly competition, where each winner earns a gift-card prize.
How to Play
Read a brief description of how Celebrity Goo Game is played: The schedule of play, the basic rules of the competition, and assorted rules for fair play. Learn more...
Play Now
Ready to begin? Start here with the current celebrity goos, which you must name judging only by the warped photograph and a few clues in the caption. Begin playing...
Browse Goos
This game has been running for years, and there's a lot more fun to be had by browsing the archive of old goos and trying to solve them again. You might even gain a new perspective on current goos. Begin browsing...
Player Achievements
We make a point of celebrating the players whose dedication to the game leads to victory and other accomplishments. The various awards, titles, and honors earned by players are listed here. Learn more...
Today's Goo
Victims
It took authorities 37 years, nearly twice her lifespan, for this owner of a buckskin jacket to be identified. You have one week. Who's the king?
Guess NowOther Current Goos
Literature
It's practically magical how this author of Ice Queen knows a thing or two about color, having written books about white horses, blue diaries, green angels, black birds, and red gardens. Go »
Music
This Ontarian quadragenarian is a self-declared saint, full of grace, in a pair of post-grunge bands founded in his province. Go »
Fads
If you think it's insane that a creepy 4chan post led to this 20-year-old directing two Oscar nominees and an Emmy winner in a widely released horror film, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a short story essentially agreeing. Go »
Movies
Mega-hits like Jurassic Park, The Sixth Sense, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Back to the Future made her one of the top producers in Hollywood, but you wouldn't know it from her dubious reputation among fans of Star Wars and Indiana Jones over the last decade-plus. Go »
Literature
Born to be a star, this lady certainly was given rope enough to hang herself reputationally, having been fired from Vanity Fair for angering a theater producer, blacklisted in Hollywood for sympathizing with Communists, and left in a filing cabinet for 17 years as her remains went unclaimed. Go »
