How to Play
Welcome to Celebrity Goo Game, where famous faces have been distorted into caricatures. The objective is to identify as many of the celebrities as you can.
Each season of the game consists of ten weeks of normal goos, then an eleventh week tournament to decide a winner. The more goos you solve during the regular season, the better seeding and more extra chances you'll enjoy during the tournament.
Regular season: Each of the ten weeks is presented as a different theme that the celebrities share in common, such as a birthplace or a claim to fame. A new goo is presented each weekday, and all five goos remain active over the following weekend for last-minute guesses. At midnight (est) on Sunday night, all five goos expire and a new week begins.
Tournament: Players are paired in brackets according to how many goos they solved during the regular season. During the first 24 hours of each tournament goo, players must race against a timer (activated when they are ready to begin) to solve the goo faster than their opponent in the same bracket. The player who guesses correctly with the faster time will advance. Guessing incorrectly, or failure to guess during the first 24 hours, will eliminate a player from the tournament. (In the event that all remaining players are eliminated on the same goo, it will be stricken from the tournament and they will try again on a new goo.) For every fifteen goos solved during the regular season, each player will get an "extra chance" to survive in the tournament when they would normally be eliminated. Players who are no longer in the tournament can continue to guess at each tournament goo after the first 24 hours.
Winner: The player who emerges victorious on the final tournament goo will become the game's newest winner and receive a $25 Amazon.com gift card. Afterwards, the remaining weeks until the next season begins will be filled with bonus goos, which do not affect the competition and are played just for fun.
Besides winning the game, a number of other achievements are honored, such as solving 1000 goos and being the only player to solve a particular goo. There's also a Hall of Fame that honors the game's very best players.
Some rules in the game are too obscure to list here, coming up under very rare circumstances. See the advanced rules for a complete list.
Celebrity Goo Game is run by Scott Hardie, who reserves the right to take any steps to preserve fairness if cheating is apparent, an error occurs on the site, or other unusual circumstances occur. The game is part of Funeratic, a web site with other games, contests, movie reviews, blogs, and a discussion forum. A Funeratic account grants access to all sections of the site.
Ready to play? Click on this week's theme in the schedule on the left sidebar. Good luck!
