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
Sports
He played under the other famous Coach K (as in Knight) before breaking his record as a coach himself, as part of the Blue Devils dominating college basketball for much of his 42-year tenure.
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Music
This British singer didn't want to be a slave to his former band, and refused to stick together in favor of a solo career. But his popularity didn't travel across the water to the States, where his music sales stayed in limbo. Go »
Health
He's a hero in his native Congo for his 1976 discovery of a virus feared the world over, even if his Belgian colleague was long recognized as the one to identify it. Go »
Inventions
He had a small idea, inspired by the famous flora of his native Bavaria, that made driving around his adopted New York a more pleasant experience. Go »
Movies
Do casting directors take one look at this tall character actor and immediately assign him to play a cop or a prison guard? The makers of Last Light, Homefront, The Hurricane, Dead Man Walking, and The Shawshank Redemption apparently did. Go »
Comedy
His satirical reports are often mistaken for fact, but it's true that this funniest American writer has an NAACP Image Award. Go »
