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: Monday, September 1, 2025 (part of September 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Monday, September 8
category: 
Crime
clue: This formative friend of pre-Apple Steves had a freaking great reputation for navigating complex telecom systems so deftly that it was like he ate phone networks for breakfast.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Sunday, August 31, 2025 (part of August 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Sunday, September 7
category: 
Journalism
clue: This chronicler of the WWII troop experience was neither private like his TV namesake, nor a goober like that man's cousin.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Saturday, August 30, 2025 (part of August 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Saturday, September 6
category: 
Controversy
clue: Millennials have gotten used to being told that they're lazy and entitled for yelping about minimum wage and not bootstrapping themselves, but they don't expect the criticism to come from their own, like this one at the wizened, world-weary age of 29.
intended difficulty: very hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by player Steve West.
Scott Hardie made minor changes to the clue provided by Steve.
publication date: Friday, August 29, 2025 (part of August 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Friday, September 5
category: 
Government
clue: Not only was he a fashion pioneer, he was also hand-picked to be his country's first prime minister.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Thursday, August 28, 2025 (part of August 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Thursday, September 4
category: 
Sports
clue: It's tempting to say that this pro wrestler was a lover and not a fighter, but he put away so many opponents that he gained an assassin's nickname.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 (part of August 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Wednesday, September 3
category: 
Fads
clue: After arguing with someone who told him that lyrics were all-important, he decided to sing without them, although his creepy smiling TV performance wouldn't become a hit until 34 years later at the very end of his life.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 (part of August 2025) - the answer will be revealed on Tuesday, September 2
category: Government
clue: Historians know a lot about heritage, especially this one, who took over 2025 in 2024.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, and LaVonne Lemler
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Recent Goos
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Blake Mycoskie
Mycoskie, a onetime contestant on the reality TV series The Amazing Race, founded Toms, a company that donates a pair of shoes to disadvantaged children for every pair purchased by a customer. Go »
Enrico Fermi
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Richard Widmark
Richard Widmark portrayed Jim Bowie in 1960's The Alamo. In his first movie role as the psychopathic gangster Tommy Udo in 1947's Kiss of Death, he pushed an old lady in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs to her death. Go »
Jo Stafford
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Dick Turpin
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Dale Webster
Webster set a record for the most consecutive days spent surfing: 14,641, or just over 40 years. Go »
Wayne Brady
Brady is known for his many appearances on the comedy series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as well as hosting the game show Let's Make a Deal and the talk show The Wayne Brady Show. Go »
