September 2025
Russ Wilhelm and Steve West won this round on October 6, 2025. There were 30 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (30 goos solved, a perfect score), Steve West (29 goos solved, a perfect score), Richard Slominsky (28 goos solved), Samir Mehta (19 goos solved), Erik Bates (11 goos solved), LaVonne Lemler (9 goos solved), and Scott Hardie (1 goo solved).
Captain Crunch
This formative friend of pre-Apple Steves had a freaking great reputation for navigating complex telecom systems so deftly that it was like he ate phone networks for breakfast. Go »
Red Panda
This basketball fan brought her balancing act to both American and British televised talent competitions, but she's a native of China, just like the furry forest animal that inspired her performing name. Go »
Jenny Craig
From its humble start in Australia, she built her eponymous company into a weight-management empire whose hundreds of centers spanned North America in the 1980s and 1990s. Go »
Stefania Follini
She didn't hear about Iran issuing a fatwa on Salman Rushdie, or Rain Man winning Best Picture, or Lucille Ball dying? What, was she living in a cave? Go »
J.R.R. Tolkien
His legendary trilogy of novels about a Ringmaster, and the fellowship charged with its destruction, introduced the world to a new kind of fantasy. Go »
Stephen King
This horrifically successful author predicted that long after he's dead, the character that he'll most be remembered for will be a Clown that lives in a sewer. Who's the king? Go »
Laurent de Brunhoff
Continuing the work of his father, this French pachydermophile's books controversially implied that cities and civilization were the best Elephant Trainer. Go »
Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster
When their most famous character made his 1938 debut lifting a car over his head, it was clear that this writer-artist duo had created a super-popular new kind of Strongman. Go »
C.S. Lewis
As a Christ allegory, he created a talking Lion Tamer than any real-world big cat, who was the enemy of a witch on the other side of a wardrobe. Go »
E.L. James
This former ice queen knows a thing or two (and a few dozen more) about Tightrope. Walker, her editor, is among many who have praised her work. Go »
Gucci Mane
His bestselling 2017 autobiography was written while this Trap(eze) Artist was spending approximately 7000 hours in prison. Go »
Simon Stålenhag
Simon & Schuster (& Skybound) saw soaring sales since sympathetic stans sponsored some Stockholmer's sci-fi story "Sparking State." Seriously. Go »
T. Hee
During his stint at Disney, he tried to make children say his name when they watched a fox, a cat, a hippo, and a gator. Go »
Holly Marie Combs
She has charmed many, being pretty and little. Go »
Luigi Mangione
This assassin was delayed in his escape and denied bail, and will be deposed by prosecutors after a 2024 shooting made him a polarizing folk-heroic figure. Go »
Justin Baldoni
There are layers of irony in his hit movie about misogynistic violence prompting life to imitate art in a lively battle of words over his alleged sexual harassment and a hit piece in the New York Times, especially for the host of a hit podcast about modern misogyny and whether he's enough of a man. Go »
Frank Gehry
Some of this goo's buildings look a bit like goos themselves, including the Dancing House, MoPOP, the Stata Center, the LRCBH in Las Vegas, and the Marqués de Riscal. Go »
Stefan Mandel
If you're four times more likely to be struck by lightning than to win the lottery, this Romanian mathematician did the equivalent of getting struck by lightning fifty-six times. Go »
Nikki Yanofsky
She believed that her native Canada would do well in the Olympics even though she was not old enough to compete in most of the categories. Go »
Benjamin Šeško
This rising soccer superstar is the youngest ever to score a goal on the Slovenian national team, but Star Trek fans might get him confused with the Emissary of the Prophets. Go »
Maurice White
A walking contradiction, he was White but one of the biggest Black musical stars of the 1970s, and his biggest hit about September 21 was actually released on November 18. Go »
Mahlon Loomis
Not known as the "Father of Radio," successive depressions of the late 19th U.S. prevented this pioneer from obtaining funding for his promising experimentation in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Go »
Paul Mitchell
If you're having trouble finding this Scotsman's name with your tongue: At some point you may have put it in your hair. Go »
Action Bronson
Eschewing the "Dr." and "Mr." that are in two of his album titles, he chose a stage name that combines the genre and star of Death Wish. Go »
Arden Cho
If you missed her in a show about wolves who are teens, you might have heard her in a movie about hunters of demons. Go »
Tim Curry
Before an extensive stage career in Spamalot, The Pirates of Penzance, Amadeus, and more, he'll always be remembered for the early theatrical role that he reprised in a cult film classic fifty years ago today: A sweet transvestite from Transexual Transylvania, in a Science Fiction/Double Feature. Go »
Margaret Sanger
At first, she didn't plan for parenthood (or the lack thereof) to become her life's work. Go »
Dave Ramsey
Were this Tennessee-based financial advice author to devote an episode of his radio show to playing this game, his advice might be to use a "goo snowball" method of building momentum by solving easier goos first, and never borrowing "goo credit" by saving goos to solve later that could be solved today. Go »
Kevin Williamson
This writer-director-producer is known for horrifying audiences with works like Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cursed, The Vampire Diaries, and Dawson's Creek. Go »
