Good afternoon. Welcome to The DONUT’s first-ever PM send, featuring more games than a Dave & Buster’s.

Unlike a Dave & Buster’s, however, our games are free—and our goal is for you to leave here smarter than you came. So in addition to puzzles like crosswords and Sudoku, each email will also include trivia and other educational-focused tidbits.

Happy playing🫡.

Quick reminder: After surveying our readers, we decided to launch a Games division, with each day’s puzzles delivered via an afternoon newsletter. Comments, questions, feedback? Just hit reply. We’d love your help as we work to build and perfect everything we’re doing.

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Each of the following events happened on July 14. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) A Paris mob storms the Bastille, marking a key event in the French Revolution.
• B) Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman and first Iranian to be awarded a Fields Medal, often considered the math field's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, dies.
• C) The world's last telegram was sent as India's state-run telecommunications company ends its telegraph service.
• D) American baseball great Hank Aaron hits his 500th career home run, a significant milestone for election to the Hall of Fame.
• E) Easy Rider was released in US theaters, becoming a classic of the counterculture and propelling Jack Nicholson to stardom.

Hint(s): The last telegram sent isn’t, in fact, the last. Two other events also occurred one year apart.

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…it’d look a little something like 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 objects held together by Gorilla Glue.

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

Note: A (potentially important) clue for today’s Conjoiner can be found at the bottom of our AM send. Just search “🍩 Super, man“ in your inbox.

Mini

Kyle, our associate editor and leader of The DONUT braintrust, aced today’s Mini crossword, completing it in one minute, fifteen seconds. Can you beat him?

• 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 (easy 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.

A, D, E, C, B

• A) 1789: A Paris mob storms the Bastille, marking a key event in the French Revolution.
• D) 1968: American baseball great Hank Aaron hits his 500th career home run, a significant milestone for election to the Hall of Fame.
• E) 1969: Easy Rider was released in US theaters, becoming a classic of the counterculture and propelling Jack Nicholson to stardom.
• C) 2013: The world's last telegram was sent, as India's state-run telecommunications company ends its telegraph service.
• B) 2017: Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman and first Iranian to be awarded a Fields Medal, often considered the math field's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, dies.