Current Goos
Can you solve the goos below? You'll improve your score if you do. Good luck! For more information, see How to Play.
publication date: Sunday, May 4, 2025 (part of May 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Sunday, May 11
category: 
Music
clue: When he's not writing songs under the pseudonym of a Back to the Future character, he's writing books about a dinosaur's gastrointestinal foreign body expulsion.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Steve West
Up the Long Ladder: Climbing the longest ladder that's ever been is the same as climbing a short one: Just take it one step at a time. It only makes sense to take them in order, right?Know the answer? Please log in or create an account in order to guess.
publication date: Saturday, May 3, 2025 (part of May 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Saturday, May 10
category: 
Movies
clue: This director is frequently on the road: He's made films about trips to Sarajevo, Guantanamo, Italy, Spain, Greece, and his native England.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
Up the Long Ladder: Climbing the longest ladder that's ever been is the same as climbing a short one: Just take it one step at a time. It only makes sense to take them in order, right?Know the answer? Please log in or create an account in order to guess.
publication date: Friday, May 2, 2025 (part of May 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Friday, May 9
category: Music
clue: He's never gonna dance again—not because guilty feet have no rhythm, but because he died in 2016.
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
Up the Long Ladder: Climbing the longest ladder that's ever been is the same as climbing a short one: Just take it one step at a time. It only makes sense to take them in order, right?Know the answer? Please log in or create an account in order to guess.
publication date: Thursday, May 1, 2025 (part of May 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Thursday, May 8
category: 
Television
clue: In her home country of Australia, she gained fame for starring in a long-running soap opera while still a teenager. Since moving away, she has hunted for better roles, from thieves using aliases first, to a patient in treatment for a short heartbeat, to a mother who (twice) slapped mosquitoes on a coast.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Samir Mehta
pending guesses: Richard Slominsky
Up the Long Ladder: Climbing the longest ladder that's ever been is the same as climbing a short one: Just take it one step at a time. It only makes sense to take them in order, right?Know the answer? Please log in or create an account in order to guess.
publication date: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 (part of April 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Wednesday, May 7
category: Television
clue: She has played a replacement daughter on ABC, a young doctor on NBC, a space mom on Adult Swim, and a lifelong friend on Netflix. When you think you know the answer, write it on a blackboard.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Samir Mehta
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publication date: Tuesday, April 29, 2025 (part of April 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Tuesday, May 6
category: Music
clue: She has earned millions of fans over the course of nine studio albums, five soundtrack albums, and three live albums, but none of her fans are quite like Ally McBeal.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Samir Mehta
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publication date: Monday, April 28, 2025 (part of April 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Monday, May 5
category: 
Accidents
clue: Remember the Tom Hanks movie The Terminal? He was like that, but in space.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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Recent Goos
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Matt Foley
Father Matt Foley was a close friend of actor Chris Farley, who used his name when developing a motivational-speaker character that Farley later played on Saturday Night Live. Foley provided spiritual guidance to the actor and presided over his funeral after a fatal overdose in 1997. He has made several media appearances discussing his connection to Farley. Go »
Pete Hegseth
Army veteran Hegseth was a media commentator and author, including the June 2024 book The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free, prior to his becoming Donald Trump's secretary of defense in January 2025. He has been at the center of an ongoing controversy involving intelligence leaks, such as discussing sensitive plans for military operations over the messaging app Signal. Go »
Alex Warren
Warren first gained fame for prank videos online, produced in collaboration with his TikTok collective The Hype House, who went on to appear in a Netflix reality series about their attempts to grow their brand. After a falling out with the group, he started publishing music, including the hit songs "Burning Down" and "Ordinary." Go »
2 Chainz
2 Chainz's debut album was Based on a T.R.U. Story, and he has revisited the phrase several times in subsequent titles. Go »
Jan-Erik Olsson
In August of 1973, Olsson attempted to hold up a bank in Stockholm, but the situation turned into a hostage crisis that lasted for five days. Although reporting at the time misinterpreted and exaggerated the degree to which the hostages bonded with Olsson, the incident nonetheless led to the term "Stockholm syndrome" in which hostages become sympathetic to their captor. Go »
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Joe Seiders
Seiders was the longtime drummer of the New Pornographers, a Canadian indie rock band founded around the same time as their peers in Arcade Fire. He was dismissed from the band in April 2025 after being arrested on child pornography charges. Go »
