August 2025

This round is still underway and has had 31 goos so far. Start playing!

Players this round: Richard Slominsky (30 goos solved), Russ Wilhelm (30 goos solved), Steve West (28 goos solved), Samir Mehta (27 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (17 goos solved), Erik Bates (1 goo solved), and Scott Hardie (1 goo solved).

Andy Byron

He ran a company named for the scientist who studies a sky full of stars, until he failed at the hardest part of being publicly exposed (don't panic!) and abruptly let somebody go, which brought him a world of trouble. Go »

Freddie King

His short life began and ended in Texas, but he spent several important years hiding away in Chicago and performing blues on the road. Who's the king? Go »

Viktor Frankl

After almost losing his life in the Holocaust, this psychologist dedicated the rest of it to searching for the search for the meaning of life. Go »

Sydney Sweeney

This euphoric actress is known for a silver lake, a white lotus, and blue genes. Go »

Tim Reid

With the passing of Loni Anderson, fewer of the original WKRP in Cincinnati cast survive. This one went on to have multiple famous families: His daughters Tia and Tamera Mowry, his secret son Danny Masterson, and his wife's princely Bel-Air connection. Go »

Giordano Bruno

After his conjecture about the possibility of exoplanets, the Roman Inquisition tried to make sure we don't talk about him again. Go »

Joseph Pilates

Wanting to move as freely as a feline inspired him to begin daily stretching exercises with his fellow inmates. Go »

Jeff Foxworthy

This blue-collared comedian is revered for his extensive work defining the hypothetical qualifications for redneck status, and has proposed a narrow, 5th-grader-based definition of intelligence. Go »

Vincent Margera

Women and children can afford to be careless, but not this TV relative, who was eliminated from making a living (pun intended) after his arrest. Go »

Esther Forbes

This novelist won a Pulitzer and a Newbery for her works about historical figures both real like Paul Revere and fictional like Johnny Tremain. Go »

Taylor Hicks

His all-American career took him from his native Birmingham to the music industry in Nashville to singing-competition tryouts in Las Vegas to a reality competition triumph in Los Angeles to a Broadway role in New York, then back to Las Vegas for a residency and Nashville to appear in the Grand Ole Opry. Go »

Tony Robbins

Perhaps this giant in the field of motivational speaking is so comfortable with firewalking during his presentations because it takes so very long for a pain signal to travel from his feet to his brain. Go »

Timothy Evans

The 1950 hanging of this innocent neighbour was a major factor in Britain ceasing to use the death penalty. Go »

José Ramírez

He stops opponents at third base, but nothing could stop him from propelling his recently-renamed team to their first World Series in 19 years. Go »

Almásy László

This aristocrat became a Hungarian pilot, an Egyptian driver, a German spy, and an English patient. Go »

Dwayne McDuffie

He couldn't do enough damage control after multiple firings for criticizing the treatment of Black creators and characters, but his efforts are nonetheless remembered as a milestone that helped the major comic book publishers treat minorities less statically, even if he never got to tell his famous half-brother about them. Go »

Ivan Pavlov

This Russian scientist figured out why you feel a sudden urge to play the goo game whenever you hear the clock strike 12am ET. Go »

Christopher Scarver

Philosophers debate whether executing a murderer reduces the number of killers in the world. But since he was already a convicted murderer prior to his infamous double homicide of his fellow inmates, the incident really did reduce the number of killers in Wisconsin's penal system by two. Go »

Wayne Brady

Let's make a deal: Forget his doomed eponymous daytime talk show, and you can remember him solely for his participation in a long-running improvisational comedy series, despite his colleagues' tendency to forget when it's his line. Go »

Dale Webster

If Celebrity Goo Game has been part of your daily Web surfing for a long time, be impressed with this guy doing the real kind for even longer. Go »

Dick Turpin

While his four years as an infamous thief (on and of horses) in the 1730s made him a popular and romantic figure in British folklore, in reality he was kind of a dick. Go »

Jo Stafford

This American standards singer was so popular with troops in WWII that she was nicknamed "G.I. Jo," and Japanese forces were said to have blared her music to weaken American soldiers' resolve with homesickness. Go »