September 2026
Richard Slominsky won this round on October 6, 2026. There were 30 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (30 goos solved, a perfect score), Richard Slominsky (29 goos solved), and Stan Iwanchuk (1 goo solved).
Wendell Johnson
This stutter studier proved that there are monsters scarier than the ones under the bed. Go »
Frances Haugen
Facebook is powered by ones and zeroes, and it was exposed by one whistleblower with zero fucks left to give. Go »
Cecilia Chiang
Her landmark San Francisco restaurant brought the cuisine of Northern China (and the name of its language) to American diners, and its DNA lives on in the chain P.F. Chang's. Go »
Tionne Watkins
She didn't love the ghetto, so she got in touch with herself (and L and C) and made her getaway. Go »
Lola Montez
Dance like a spider. Sting like a vinegaroon. Go »
William S. Burroughs
This queer junkie was a cut-up at parties, known for taking his lunch in the nude. Go »
Jeffrey Skilling
This notorious CEO served twelve years in prison for conspiring to commit fraud. Said to have adored Richard Dawkins's book The Selfish Gene, perhaps he should have been more like his brother and gone into weather forecasting. Go »
Tieghan Gerard
Nearly half of her life ago, she baked up the idea for a food blog that she has since harvested to produce four cookbooks and a variety of brand partnerships. Go »
Robert Smith
This British singer provided the panacea for Tim Burton when designing Edward Scissorhands, Neil Gaiman when designing Dream, and James O'Barr when designing the Crow. Go »
Lil Pump
Lucy Lang through Qi sang poochy fang boujie slang. Sushi tang, douchi thang, scooch Yichang to Jieyang, Smoochy hang, hoochie bang, view she-wang, ooh gee dang. Go »
The Falling Man
He fell just before the towers did, becoming the unwitting subject of a striking photograph that made him both an enigma (his identity has never been officially confirmed) and instantly recognizable as a symbol of loss, grief, and tragedy that haunts to this day. Go »
Chip Wilson
Just as his products seem to be both leisure wear and athletic wear, this sour CEO seems to want both to dress women and to insult them. Go »
Jerry Lewis
He was not a professor of nuts, a man of ladies, or a boy of bells, but he was a comedy king. Go »
Luke Evans
With Rent and Rocky among his stage credits, and Swords and Strangers among his TV credits, he was prepared for alliterative titles in film, including Beauty and the Beast, Wonder Women, Murder Mystery, and Fast & Furious. Go »
Mary Dyer
This mighty, mighty Bostonian is now revered for refusing to quake in her boots for the Puritans who banished and eventually martyred her, making her last name sound appropriate. Go »
Neil Sedaka
His hits included "Breaking Up is Hard to Goo," "One-Way Ticket to the Goos," "Going Home to Mary Goo," and "Crying My Heart Out for Goo." Go »
Kevin Parker
Like a bovine oxymoron, he's at once a loner and a loser and a paranoid lover. Go »
Jessica Fox
This foxy lady can "ooh" with the most decorated athletes in Olympic history, because she's that in her chosen sport. Go »
Scatman Crothers
Fans knew him for his career in and as Jazz. Jack Nicholson knew him as a fisherman, a gangster, a guard, and a cook. Go »
Olivia Dean
This hit-making Artist finds falling in love easy and falling out of it harder. Go »
Vanessa Carlton
Her career began with a single step when her hit debut made her the most popular white chick on MTV. Go »
Paul Kingsnorth
The best-known novel by this real writer from England is written in a fictional English. Who's the king? Go »
Melinda French Gates
Among her projects under her future ex-husband: Works (as in "philanthropic") Word (as in "divorce"), and Money (as in "lots of it"). Go »
Luther Vandross
He knew powerful love, endless love, secret love, smooth love, any love. But sometimes, it was only love. Go »
Trey Smith
I know it's offensive, but I can't help but wonder if he's in the NFL because this player was engaged by a program designed by his oldest sister. Go »
apl.de.ap
This apple among peas didn't just wear his signature glasses to be stylish: He was legally blind for most of his life. Go »
Austin Abrams
His scary stories concern wolves and weapons, residents and revenge, and whales and walking. Go »
Jack McBrayer
He parlayed a low-status job doing whatever Conan O'Brien told him to do into a low-status job doing whatever Tina Fey told him to do pretending to have a low-status job doing whatever NBC told him to do. Go »
Mary Quant
Quantum computing has little to do with fashion, but they do both have a MOD. Go »
