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: Friday, August 15, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Friday, August 22
category: 
Exploration
clue: This aristocrat became a Hungarian pilot, an Egyptian driver, a German spy, and an English patient.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Thursday, August 14, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Thursday, August 21
category: 
Sports
clue: He stops opponents at third base, but nothing could stop him from propelling his recently-renamed team to their first World Series in 19 years.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Wednesday, August 13, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Wednesday, August 20
category: 
Injustice
clue: The 1950 hanging of this innocent neighbour was a major factor in Britain ceasing to use the death penalty.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Tuesday, August 12, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Tuesday, August 19
category: 
Opinion
clue: Perhaps this giant in the field of motivational speaking is so comfortable with firewalking during his presentations because it takes so very long for a pain signal to travel from his feet to his brain.
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Monday, August 11, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Monday, August 18
category: 
Music
clue: His all-American career took him from his native Birmingham to the music industry in Nashville to singing-competition tryouts in Las Vegas to a reality competition triumph in Los Angeles to a Broadway role in New York, then back to Las Vegas for a residency and Nashville to appear in the Grand Ole Opry.
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Sunday, August 10, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Sunday, August 17
category: 
Literature
clue: This novelist won a Pulitzer and a Newbery for her works about historical figures both real like Paul Revere and fictional like Johnny Tremain.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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publication date: Saturday, August 9, 2025 - the answer will be revealed on Saturday, August 16
category: 
Crime
clue: Women and children can afford to be careless, but not this TV relative, who was eliminated from making a living (pun intended) after his arrest.
intended difficulty: very hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm and Steve West
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Recent Goos
These goos were played a week ago.
Jeff Foxworthy
Foxworthy's best-known comedy routine is known for the repeated line, "you might be a redneck." He hosted the game show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? for multiple stints beginning in 2009. Go »
Joseph Pilates
Pilates began developing and teaching his methods for stretching exercises while a prisoner of war during WWI. He claimed to have been inspired by the movements of cats that he could observe from a window. Go »
Giordano Bruno
Cosmologist Bruno was executed in 1600 for proposing an expansive understanding of the universe that included planets orbiting distant stars. The clue references the song "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from the movie Encanto. Go »
Tim Reid
Reid played the father of the Mowry twins in Sister, Sister, and the father of Masterson in That '70s Show. His wife Daphne Maxwell Reid was the second actress to play Aunt Viv in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Go »
Sydney Sweeney
Sweeney starred in Euphoria, Under the Silver Lake, and The White Lotus. In the summer of 2025, she appeared in a controversial advertisement for American Eagle in which puns about her "great jeans" made it sound as if her "great genes" (ie. blond hair and blue eyes) were key to her success. Go »
Viktor Frankl
Frankl believed that the search for the meaning of life was a central motivational force in one's life. He founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that treats patients by employing this philosophy. He wrote Man's Search for Meaning, an autobiography. Go »
Freddie King
King's hits included "Hide Away." Go »
