Player Achievements
This page celebrates a variety of accomplishments by players of Celebrity Goo Game.
Winners
The most recent winners have bragging rights as the top players in the game.
Russ Wilhelm and Samir Mehta
winner: February 2025
March 6, 2025
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Master
The player with the highest score of all time is the master of the goo game.
Russ Wilhelm
became master on November 22, 2017
current score: 6138 correct guesses
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Streaker
The streaker is the player with the most consecutive correct guesses, not counting current goos or his own creations.
Russ Wilhelm
streak: 322 consecutive goos
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Creator
The player who has created the most celebrity goos is called the creator.
Steve West
became creator on January 5, 2025
current tally: 353 published goos
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Collector
A player who solves a goo in every category is called a collector.
Richard Slominsky
other collectors: Samir Mehta, Matthew Preston, Aaron Shurtleff, LaVonne Lemler, Chris Lemler, Steve Dunn, Mike Eberhart, Justin Woods, Erik Bates, Russ Wilhelm, Mike Rothstein, Joanna Woods, Denise Sawicki, and Steve West
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Perfect Round
This player has solved every goo in an entire round, not counting his own goo creations, more often than any other player.
Russ Wilhelm
41 perfect rounds: Round XXXVI, Round XLIII, Round XLVI, Winter 2011, Winter 2012, Spring 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Winter 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, December 2022, January 2023, February 2023, April 2023, May 2023, June 2023, August 2023, September 2023, October 2023, November 2023, December 2023, January 2024, February 2024, March 2024, April 2024, June 2024, July 2024, August 2024, September 2024, October 2024, November 2024, December 2024, January 2025, and February 2025
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Solo Solution
This player has been the only person to solve a goo more times than any other player.
Russ Wilhelm
58 solo solutions: Vicki Lawrence, Josef Aigner, Champ Clark, Celine Song, Matthew Modine, Sterling Holloway, Tamara Walker, Jeffrey Zaslow, Jefferson Pérez, Thomas Hart Benton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sam Klemmer, Claude Monet, Cameron Sanderson, Erik Ayala, Bette Midler, Javad Palizbanian, Tunch Ilkin, Daniel Chester French, Thomas Wedders, Evan Lattimer, John Duval Gluck, Bob Orton Jr., J.R. Salzman, Muggsy Bogues, Jules Cotard, Jimmy Buffett, David Hedison, Doug Williams, Hemiunu, Elisha Otis, Vanessa Hudgens, Mena Suvari, Mac Davis, Rin Tin Tin, Felix Batista, Robert G. Heft, David Emge, Marcia Strassman, Edward Furlong, Nigella Lawson, Sheryl Lee, Ben Rattray, Tim Hightower, James Edward Jordan, Sofia Boutella, Rocco DiSpirito, Conrad Bluth, Lauren Bush, Alice Walker, Spencer Bailey, Clyde Cessna, mxmtoon, Bernardo O'Higgins, Didier Ratsiraka, Richard On, Mark Sargent, and Kevin Chamberlin
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Swift Solution
This player has solved more goos in under one minute than any other player.
Samir Mehta
69 swift solutions: Michael Oher, Virginia Madsen, Ken Jeong, Chelsea Handler, Ariana Grande, Jim Carrey, Arizona Zervas, Sylvester Stallone, Pete Buttigieg, Steve Downes, Thomas Pynchon, Jeanine Cummins, Chaka Khan, Regina Spektor, Kelly Rowland, Henry VIII, Wolf Blitzer, Howie Mandel, Joe Exotic, Geena Davis, Orson Bean, Marissa Ribisi, Chuck Schumer, Fran Drescher, Todd Gurley, Deborah Birx, Courteney Cox, Lauren Morelli, Adam Lanza, George Floyd, John Candy, John Waters, Greta Thunberg, Joan Allen, Bill Mumy, Wesley Snipes, Brian Kemp, Wendy Williams, JT LeRoy, Annie Lennox, Edward Austin Tracy, Viola Davis, Donald Trump Jr., Val Kilmer, Charles Woodson, Betty Friedan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jim Morrison, Devin Booker, Marshawn Lynch, Thomas Becket, Chares of Lindos, Nick Frost, David Belasco, Hans Christian Andersen, Bob Seger, Fannie Lou Hamer, Sarah Fuller, Allison Janney, Phyllis Schlafly, Saweetie, Timothée Chalamet, Jesse Eisenberg, Josh Hawley, Patty Jenkins, Don Cheadle, Tim Russert, Larry Bird, and Nan Wood Graham
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Hall of Fame
The game's best players are profiled in the Hall of Fame.
Richard Slominsky, most recent inductee
Good things come to those who wait: Even for a game that requires semi-daily play sustained over weeks or months in order to win, Celebrity Goo Game can demand a high degree of patience. If at first, or at second, or at third you don't succeed, you keep on trying, until sooner or later you triumph and win the competition. Excellent players sometimes wait years to win. And this has been especially true of perhaps the game's most patient player, Richard Slominsky, who has been playing at a consistently high level since joining the game 17 years ago, and gradually became one of the game's most accomplished players ever, but for whom a single victory remained elusive until now. The objective of the game may be to win any given round, but if there's anyone whose playing career proves that you can achieve greatness long before you tick that particular box, Richard has more than done so. more…
