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: Thursday, September 18, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Thursday, September 25
category: 
Games
clue: 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.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Wednesday, September 24
category: 
Architecture
clue: 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.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Tuesday, September 23
category: 
Controversy
clue: 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.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Monday, September 15, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Monday, September 22
category: 
Crime
clue: 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.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Sunday, September 14, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Sunday, September 21
category: 
Television
clue: She has charmed many, being pretty and little.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Saturday, September 13, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Saturday, September 20
category: 
Cartoons
clue: 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.
intended difficulty: very hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Steve West
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publication date: Friday, September 12, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Friday, September 19
category: 
Art
clue: Simon & Schuster (& Skybound) saw soaring sales since sympathetic stans sponsored some Stockholmer's sci-fi story "Sparking State." Seriously.
intended difficulty: hard
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.
Gucci Mane
Mane co-wrote The Autobiography of Gucci Mane. Go »
E.L. James
James wrote Fifty Shades of Grey and its sequels, which involve a lot of bondage erotica. She initially published them online under the pseudonym Snowqueens Icedragon. James's U.K. editor is Selina Walker, publisher of the book imprints Century and Arrow. Go »
C.S. Lewis
Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia. Go »
Laurent de Brunhoff
de Brunhoff wrote and illustrated more than 50 Babar books, which began with The Story of Babar by his father Jean. Go »
Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster
Siegel wrote and Shuster illustrated Action Comics #1, the first appearance of their character Superman. Go »
Stephen King
King wrote It. Go »
J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings. Go »
