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: Tuesday, August 12, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Tuesday, August 19
category: 
Opinion
clue: 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.
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Steve West
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publication date: Monday, August 11, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Monday, August 18
category: 
Music
clue: 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.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Sunday, August 10, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Sunday, August 17
category: 
Literature
clue: This novelist won a Pulitzer and a Newbery for her works about historical figures both real like Paul Revere and fictional like Johnny Tremain.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Saturday, August 9, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Saturday, August 16
category: 
Crime
clue: 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.
intended difficulty: very hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Steve West
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publication date: Friday, August 8, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Friday, August 15
category: 
Comedy
clue: 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.
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, and LaVonne Lemler
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publication date: Thursday, August 7, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Thursday, August 14
category: 
Health
clue: Wanting to move as freely as a feline inspired him to begin daily stretching exercises with his fellow inmates.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, and LaVonne Lemler
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publication date: Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Wednesday, August 13
category: 
Science
clue: After his conjecture about the possibility of exoplanets, the Roman Inquisition tried to make sure we don't talk about him again.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, and LaVonne Lemler
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Recent Goos
These goos were played a week ago.
Tim Reid
Reid played the father of the Mowry twins in Sister, Sister, and the father of Masterson in That '70s Show. His wife Daphne Maxwell Reid was the second actress to play Aunt Viv in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Go »
Sydney Sweeney
Sweeney starred in Euphoria, Under the Silver Lake, and The White Lotus. In the summer of 2025, she appeared in a controversial advertisement for American Eagle in which puns about her "great jeans" made it sound as if her "great genes" (ie. blond hair and blue eyes) were key to her success. Go »
Viktor Frankl
Frankl believed that the search for the meaning of life was a central motivational force in one's life. He founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that treats patients by employing this philosophy. He wrote Man's Search for Meaning, an autobiography. Go »
Freddie King
King's hits included "Hide Away." Go »
Andy Byron
Byron was the CEO of data analytics firm Astronomer, until his extramarital affair with another executive was exposed when they were caught hugging, and then suddenly breaking their embrace in embarrassment, on the "kiss cam" at a Coldplay concert in July 2025. The moment became a popular meme almost overnight. The clue references the Coldplay songs "The Scientist," "A Sky Full of Stars," "The Hardest Part," "Don't Panic," "Let Somebody Go," and "Trouble." Go »
Connie Francis
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Nia Vardalos
Vardalos, a Canadian with family roots in Greece, wrote and starred in the hit film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which spawned two sequels and a television spin-off. Go »
