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.
This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Thursday, May 28, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Thursday, June 4
category: 
Sports
clue: NASCAR tracks will be a lot less rowdy without this perennial winner and baby brother tearing up the track.
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Wednesday, May 27, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Wednesday, June 3
category: 
Victims
clue: It took authorities 37 years, nearly twice her lifespan, for this owner of a buckskin jacket to be identified. You have one week. Who's the king?
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Tuesday, May 26, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Tuesday, June 2
category: 
Literature
clue: It's practically magical how this author of Ice Queen knows a thing or two about color, having written books about white horses, blue diaries, green angels, black birds, and red gardens.
intended difficulty: easy
do-over: This is a "do-over" goo, inspired by incorrect guesses for a recent previous goo.
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Monday, May 25, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Monday, June 1
category: 
Music
clue: This Ontarian quadragenarian is a self-declared saint, full of grace, in a pair of post-grunge bands founded in his province.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Sunday, May 24, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Sunday, May 31
category: 
Fads
clue: If you think it's insane that a creepy 4chan post led to this 20-year-old directing two Oscar nominees and an Emmy winner in a widely released horror film, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a short story essentially agreeing.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Saturday, May 23, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Saturday, May 30
category: 
Movies
clue: Mega-hits like Jurassic Park, The Sixth Sense, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Back to the Future made her one of the top producers in Hollywood, but you wouldn't know it from her dubious reputation among fans of Star Wars and Indiana Jones over the last decade-plus.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Friday, May 22, 2026 - the answer will be revealed on Friday, May 29
category: Literature
clue: Born to be a star, this lady certainly was given rope enough to hang herself reputationally, having been fired from Vanity Fair for angering a theater producer, blacklisted in Hollywood for sympathizing with Communists, and left in a filing cabinet for 17 years as her remains went unclaimed.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Richard Slominsky
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Recent Goos
These goos were played a week ago.
Michael O'Donoghue
O'Donoghue was the first head writer of Saturday Night Live. An occasional on-screen performer, he delivered the very first line in the very first episode. He was notorious for his abrasiveness and uncompromising nature, driving other performers and writers away. His last major success was writing the movie Scrooged, although he criticized the final theatrical version from diverging too far from his screenplay. Go »
Scott McKenzie
McKenzie was a one-hit wonder known for "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)." The Beach Boys adapted an unreleased song that he'd co-written into their own hit "Kokomo." Go »
Oscar Piastri
The clue was a play on Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street. Go »
Patricia Cornwell
Crime novelist Cornwell initially focused on a detective named Joe Constable before creating the forensic scientist Kay Scarpetta, who would be the protagonist of most of her books thereafter, starting with her first novel Postmortem. Kidman plays the character in the 2026 TV series Scarpetta. Go »
Jake Smollett
Professional chef Smollett is the younger brother of actress Jurnee Smollett and actor Jussie Smollett, the latter of whom was accused of staging a hate crime in 2019. All six Smollett siblings appeared together in the TV series Smollett Eats, and four of them authored a cookbook titled The Family Table. Go »
George C. Marshall
Marshall was the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army under Frankin Roosevelt and Harry Truman during World War II, then Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense under Truman. The Marshall Plan to rebuild post-war Europe was named for him. He remains the only U.S. Army general to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Go »
Antoine Fuqua
Fuqua's films include Michael, Training Day, Tears of the Sun, The Equalizer, Shooter, and The Magnificent Seven. Go »
