Kai Krause
publication date: Sunday, September 14, 2003 (part of Round XX)
category: 
Inventions
clue: He gave the gift of Goo to the world, and this game could never have happened without him.
explanation: Krause invented Kai's Power Goo, the software that Scott used to create celebrity goos in the game. more…
solved by: Matthew Preston, Denise Sawicki, Erik Bates, Mike Eberhart, David Mitzman, Lori Lancaster, Aaron Fischer, Jackie Mason, Wendy Hampson, Kelly Stokes, Brad Htnck, Dave Stoppenhagen, K. R., Angela Lathem-Ballard, and Brandie Harrison
trivia: Scott thought of this goo only a few weeks after #200, and saved it for two years so that it could be the 300th celebrity goo.
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