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: Sunday, December 21, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Sunday, December 28
category: 
inventions
clue: His versions of the electric light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera, and thousand or so other inventions made him a shining American icon, but his intellectual property theft, exploitation of law and employees, and animal cruelty have dimmed his glow since.
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Saturday, December 20, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Saturday, December 27
category: 
military
clue: Despite strategically landing his helicopter to interrupt a massacre, he considered his distinguished flying to be trash.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Friday, December 19, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Friday, December 26
category: 
hoaxes
clue: If a light bulb goes off for you while trying to name this prankster behind fake severed Van Gogh ears and rhinoceros tracks across campus, it probably didn't come from the Waldorf Astoria. Then again, his biggest prank of all might have been making up the majority or even entirety of the stories about him.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Thursday, December 18, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Thursday, December 25
category: 
movies
clue: Despite never winning an Oscar, he wrote and/or directed numerous films beloved by critics and audiences, including This is Spinal Tap, Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally..., Misery, A Few Good Men, The American President, Ghosts of Mississippi, The Bucket List, and, in retrospect perhaps his saddest film, Being Charlie.
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Wednesday, December 24
category: movies
clue: A predilection for Crunch bars made him a standout stuntman, a year before his Mongolian emperor invaded Los Angeles.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Tuesday, December 23
category: 
government
clue: The head of the home of the people who head up securing our home has secured a reputation for heading to raids to secure their success at heading off certain reputed security risks, despite the unfortunate coincidence of her name sounding like a tiny creature taking up residence in someone else's home garden.
intended difficulty: very easy
do-over: This is a "do-over" goo, inspired by incorrect guesses for a recent previous goo.
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
publication date: Monday, December 15, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Monday, December 22
category: movies
clue: Moviegoers out to see her latest titular role might be confused as to which name on the poster is the character and which is the actress, the same problem that she had in 2022.
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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Recent Goos
These goos were played a week ago.
Larry Ellison
Ellison is a co-founder of what is today Oracle Corporation and was its CEO from 1977 to 2014, making him one of the richest men in the world. (SYSDBA is a term for the "super user" who has ultimate database administrator privileges in Oracle's databases.) He is also known for his donations to political candidates. Go »
Dick Van Dyke
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Jane Curtin
The clue refers to a bit on SNL's Weekend Update in which Curtin's newscaster would argue her reasonable, intelligent position on a matter, only for Dan Aykroyd's newscaster to launch into his chauvinistic response with "Jane, you ignorant slut." Go »
Baz Luhrmann
Luhrmann's works include a stage production of La bohème, the TV series The Get Down, and the films Elvis, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, and The Great Gatsby. Go »
Georgy Zhukov
Zhukov was a Soviet officer in the Red Army who held numerous ranks and positions, and was chosen to receive Germany's official surrender in person at the end of World War II. In the post-war era, he used diplomatic back channels to acquire a custom form Go »
Gaten Matarazzo
Matarazzo rose to fame in Stranger Things and hosted Prank Encounters. He was born with cleidocranial dysplasia, and raises funds for a charity helping people with the condition. Go »
Iwona B. Horyn
Horyn is the acting Chief Security Officer at the Department of Homeland Security. She trended on social media in late 2025 for the implications and improbability of her name, but she has a long career as a bureaucrat with no sign of her high-profile post Go »
