# NYT Faces Game
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [December 30, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165 "2025-12-30T03:29:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/1 "2025-12-30T03:29:08Z")
Not sure if this gift link will work. But if it does, how many of these prominent 2025 faces can you recognize?
> **[2025 Faces Quiz](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/briefing/2025-faces-quiz.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AlA.J4Js.01XN6DvxqHJ2&smid=url-share)**
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> See how well you know the defining personalities of 2025 with The New York Times Faces Quiz.
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### Author:  [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/2 "2025-12-30T04:34:27Z")
Only five… Jane Goodall, the socialist mayor guy (couldn’t remember his name though), Maduro, the PITT doctor (dunno name), and the two AI guys (Jensen and Altman).
There were a bunch of actors I’d seen in movies, but didn’t know the names of.
What was the average?
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/3 "2025-12-30T04:58:16Z")
31/59 here. Some I had heard of but didn’t recognize their face. I somehow confused Jimmy Kimmel with Jimmy Fallon and Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow, and Noah Wyle for George Clooney. I knew OF the girl from Hunter/X but didn’t know her name. There were only a few I didn’t recognize altogether.
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/4 "2025-12-30T05:50:02Z")
31/52. A couple I missed I should’ve recognized, the picture fooled me.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/5 "2025-12-30T06:17:12Z")
45/52
I follow politics closely and got all but one.
Weak spot was the athletes.
Was greatly helped in the area of pop stars by the fact that I have two teen daughters and a wife who constantly listen to the latest artists.
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### Author:  [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/6 "2025-12-30T10:37:49Z")
Only 30/52. I though Bad Bunny was Chalamet. I suspect that most of the names I missed were under 30 years old.
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### Author:  [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/7 "2025-12-30T11:24:41Z")
27/52 for me.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/8 "2025-12-30T14:18:47Z")
I got 21 of 52. Many of the ones I didn’t get, I had no clue who they were even when the names were revealed. But there were at least three where I would have recognized their younger selves.
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### Author:  [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/9 "2025-12-30T14:41:31Z")
37/52, missed all of the athletes and most of the younger musicians. Feeling old now.
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### Author:  [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/10 "2025-12-30T14:51:07Z")
Out of curiosity, how do you all come across these people? Like, do you know them just from exposure on the news and social media, or do you actively seek out celebrity tabloids, new musicians and athletes, etc.?
Do any of them have a noticeable impact on your lives?
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### Author:  [@Meatwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatwater)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/11 "2025-12-30T15:05:22Z")
For me, I enjoy late night shows and interviews shows like Hot Ones. I can’t name a single Bad Bunny song but I know him from Bullet Train and SNL.
I got 32/52 I didn’t know any of the athletes nor the foreign political figures.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/12 "2025-12-30T15:07:59Z")
> [@Reply](#):
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> Out of curiosity, how do you all come across these people?
Since this was presented by the New York Times, I assume that these are all people who have appeared in the NYT over the past year, though I don’t know for sure since I’m not an NYT reader. But I know that at least some of them have been in the news this past year, for various reasons (for example, those who died in 2025), and I assume the others have too.
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### Author:  [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/13 "2025-12-30T15:23:36Z")
24 of 52. No idea who any of the athletes were or the majority of the pop stars/actors.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/14 "2025-12-30T16:05:41Z")
I got 32/52. I should’ve gotten 33, but I called the SoD “Mike Hegseth.” I knew it was Pete, I just went too fast and didn’t think before hitting submit.
The most obscure one I got was Tim Robinson (only 19% of respondents correctly ID’d him).
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### Author:  [@mattgg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattgg)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/15 "2025-12-30T16:34:57Z")
38/52. My official score was 37/52 because it didn’t accept “Little Marco Rubio” as a correct answer. Almost all of my misses were singers. I’d heard of most of them (and had heard music from many of them) but had never seen them.
My most obscure answer was Trammell Tillman at 11%, but I don’t deserve full credit because I could only recall his last name. My next most obscure was A’ja Wilson at 18.
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### Author:  [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/16 "2025-12-30T17:06:27Z")
Once I realized it would take last names only that’s all I did, mostly out of laziness. But it was also interesting how permissive it was with misspellings. It also took “RFK Jr” but I wasn’t brave enough to try “MTG” or “JPow”.
Sometimes with last name only it would say “close enough” and other times it wouldn’t. I’d be interested in seeing their fuzzy match tech.
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### Author:  [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/17 "2025-12-30T17:16:32Z")
45/52. The only one I missed that I should have known was Tramell Tillman. I recognized Mahmoud Khalil but just couldn’t remember his name.
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### Author:  [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/18 "2025-12-30T18:45:04Z")
It accepted MTG. After it took RFK, I figured why not?
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### Author:  [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2026, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/19 "2026-01-01T06:40:50Z")
21/52, not a surprise since I’m in ostrich mode, avoiding political news.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2026, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-faces-game/1026165/20 "2026-01-01T07:17:02Z")
30/52. I knew the political figures, and most of the actors and athletes; I did poorly on the musicians.
I should have done better on the actors – there were a few whom I know pretty well (Emma Stone, for one), but for whom the pictures they chose didn’t really look like them, to me.