publication date: Sunday, September 6, 2015 (part of Fall 2015)

category: Legends

clue: If you have to share a house with the ghosts of your husband's shooting victims, you may as well make it a weird one.

explanation: Winchester, widow of the rifle manufacturer William Wirt Winchester, used her inheritance to build a sprawling, nonsensical mansion. According to legend, she did it to confuse the angry spirits of people killed by Winchester rifles. more…

intended difficulty: hard

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Justin Woods, Matthew Preston, Joanna Woods, Mike Rothstein, and Mike Eberhart


Similar Goos

Tiamat

This baby alone ain't no Eartha Kitt. Go »

Elizabeth Banks

Her comedic roles in the Hunger Games, Lego Movie, Pitch Perfect, and Spider-Man films have her laughing all the way to the bank. Go »

Mick Jagger

If you're trying to solve a goo that no one else can, you won't get no satisfaction from this singer of "Paint It Black" and "Sympathy for the Devil." Go »

Vin Diesel

He's a movie star known for The Fast and the Furious, The Chronicles of Riddick, and Guardians of the Galaxy, not a compression-ignition engine in which a spray of fuel, introduced into air compressed to a temperature of approximately 1000° F (538° C), ignites at a virtually constant pressure. Go »

Mo'Ne Davis

This adolescent threw 8 XXXXXXXXs and solving this will be a challenge for you. You might want to accept this goo's challenge, because a professional dodger is going to do the challenge. Go »

R.L. Stine

This author, best known for giving children goosebumps, is so successful it's scary. Go »