Good afternoon (evening now lol). Thanks for all the feedback! Quizzes should be easier. Would love any other comments/questions/concerns b/f launch pls n thk u. :)

Also—made the decision to move the full-length crosswords to 1x week (they're a big lift) and introduce Sudoku as a game instead. Lemme know what you think.

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Each of the following events happened on July 10. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred (by year; earliest to latest). Answers at the bottom!

1. A) Telstar 1, the first communications satellite to transmit live television signals and telephone conversations across the Atlantic Ocean, is launched.
2. B) Lady Jane Grey, the 15-year-old great-granddaughter of Henry VII, becomes queen of England (but her reign lasts only nine days).
3. C) British rock band the Rolling Stones tops US charts for the first time with the single “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.”
4. D) Russian politician Boris Yeltsin sworn into office as the country's first elected president.
5. E) Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin issued a US patent for a three-point seatbelt for cars, a major safety innovation we still use today.

Hint: Two of the events happened in the same year—so there will be one tie.

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To playing today’s Conjoiner, an original word game we developed where each answer to a crossword-style clue gives indications as to the next. In other words: the answers are more connected than Denzel Washington in Two Guns (I know a guy, Bobby).

The first clue of today’s sequence: “A US-gov’t-led advertising campaign against drugs in the ‘80s and early ‘90s…”

NOTE: STILL BUGGY, WORKING ON A FIX. WORTH A TRY, MAYBE I'VE DEPLOYED A WORKING VERSION BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS (c'mon, lil AI buddy!!!🤞). 

DONUT Mini

Kyle, our associate editor and leader of the braintrust, aced today’s Mini crossword, completing it in one minute, two seconds. Can you beat him? (Hey, I’m talkin’ here.)

• Play today’s puzzle here.

Sudoku

Today’s number one puzzle is a number one soon won’t forget.

• Take a stab at it here (medium difficulty).

While Health Secretary RFK Jr. has already secured the cooperation of the makers of some of America’s most colorful culinary products in his war on synthetic dyes, his campaign has run into a major roadblock—candy.

The big reason: Consumers in large part want artificial colors removed from foods they eat as part of meals, but there’s a split in their attitudes about candy, internal research from Mars (the company that makes M&M's and Snickers, not the planet) has shown. In other words: many candy munchers say keep my sweet treats as they are.

Speaking of your sweet treats…Today’s GOAT War, once completed, will once-and-for-all determine the best candy bar in existence. But we need you to weigh in.

Compete in the Best Candy Bar challenge and cast your vote for the GOAT.

B, A-E/E-A (tie), C, D

• B) 1553: Lady Jane Grey, the 15-year-old great-granddaughter of Henry VII, becomes queen of England, but her reign lasts only nine days.
• TIE: A) 1962: Telstar 1, the first communications satellite to transmit live television signals and telephone conversations across the Atlantic Ocean, is launched.
• TIE: E) 1962: Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin issued a US patent for a three-point seatbelt for cars, a major safety innovation we still use today.
• C) 1965: British rock band the Rolling Stones tops US charts for the first time with the single “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.”
• D) 1991: Russian politician Boris Yeltsin sworn into office as the country's first elected president.