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
Literature
She adapted her urban novel, first published as a book in 1926 and set one hundred years later, into a meilenstein (or is it kilometerstein?) of sci-fi cinema directed by her husband.
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Competitions
You'd have to win 74,592 rounds of Celebrity Goo Game to equal this quiz-show master's earnings, the tenth highest amount ever across standard American game shows. Go »
Movies
This director of Spartacus, Strangelove, A Space Odyssey, and The Shining didn't live to see A Minecraft Movie, though his name sounds like something in it. Go »
Literature
This Dragonwriter put her mark on the science fantasy genre in the form of a Hugo Nebula. Go »
Business
This Hawaiian breadwinner was beloved by his employees for his selflessness, perhaps the same trait that led him to name his bakery after the street it was on instead of after himself, which is why I can't ask you whether he's the king. Go »
Literature
A famous saying in the murder-mystery genre, identifying the killer as a specific domestic servant, was inspired by this American novelist's work. Seventeen years later, a different domestic servant in her own home tried to kill her with a gun and knives. Go »
