Celebrity Goo Game
Where pop-culture trivia makes funny faces.
How well do you know famous actors, musicians, athletes, newsmakers, and other celebrities? In Celebrity Goo Game, a distorted photograph of a famous person (a "goo") is published daily, along with a few hints. Guess correctly and you'll enter the monthly competition, where each winner earns a gift-card prize.
How to Play
Read a brief description of how Celebrity Goo Game is played: The schedule of play, the basic rules of the competition, and assorted rules for fair play. Learn more...
Play Now
Ready to begin? Start here with the current celebrity goos, which you must name judging only by the warped photograph and a few clues in the caption. Begin playing...
Browse Goos
This game has been running for years, and there's a lot more fun to be had by browsing the archive of old goos and trying to solve them again. You might even gain a new perspective on current goos. Begin browsing...
Player Achievements
We make a point of celebrating the players whose dedication to the game leads to victory and other accomplishments. The various awards, titles, and honors earned by players are listed here. Learn more...
Today's Goo
Movies
Mega-hits like Jurassic Park, The Sixth Sense, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Back to the Future made her one of the top producers in Hollywood, but you wouldn't know it from her dubious reputation among fans of Star Wars and Indiana Jones over the last decade-plus.
Guess NowOther Current Goos
Literature
Born to be a star, this lady certainly was given rope enough to hang herself reputationally, having been fired from Vanity Fair for angering a theater producer, blacklisted in Hollywood for sympathizing with Communists, and left in a filing cabinet for 17 years as her remains went unclaimed. Go »
Television
This unapologetically dark writer set the comedic voice of Saturday Night Live from the very first line, creating popular sketches like "The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise" and "Mr. Mike's Least-Loved Bedtime Tales," but his post-SNL career fizzled in the late 80s due to his scrooge-like personality. Go »
Music
He recorded one hit as a singer, about a California destination where people arrived wearing flowers in their hair, but he also had another as a songwriter, about a Caribbean destination way down where the Beach Boys wanna go. Go »
Sports
His competitors try not to be grouches whenever this Australian wins another Grand Prix. Go »
Literature
It's a good thing that publishers rejected her early manuscripts about an investigator so unremarkable that he may as well have been named Guy Detective, because as she conducted a post-mortem on the failed project, she realized correctly that a forensic scientist would make a far more compelling and long-running protagonist, especially if she looked like Nicole Kidman. Go »
