| | Good afternoon. S/o to everyone who wrote in with feedback yesterday. You all are awesome. We’re planning on implementing many of your suggestions. Also, because so many were asking—we do plan on publishing full-length crosswords in addition to the Minis. New ones will drop every Friday. Any comments/questions/feedback? Keep it coming. Our goal, as always, is to serve you as best we can, and we can’t do that without your help. First time reading? Subscribe to The DONUT’s AM/PM updates here. |
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📜 July 15: On This Day in History |  | Bird’s the word |  Image: iStock | Each of the following events happened on July 15. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone publicly launch their online microblogging service, Twitter.
- B) Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace is murdered by a serial killer.
- C) Die Hard is released in US theatres, launching a hugely popular series and helping establish Bruce Willis as an action star.
- D) American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performs at the Blackbushe Aerodrome in Camberley, England, before 200,000 people, concluding his European Tour.
- E) American multi-sport stud Jim Thorpe wins a gold medal for the decathlon at the Olympics in Stockholm; he also captures a gold medal for the pentathlon.
Hint: Some order, huh. |
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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game |  | Just say yes | 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 person delivering food for a company whose logo is a red ‘D’”... |
| Play the sequence here | Note: A (potentially important) clue for today’s Conjoiner can be found at the bottom of our AM send. Just search “🍩 Dollar decline“ in your inbox. |
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🧩 The Puzzle Corner |  | MiniLeBron James, aka the King, would love today’s Mini, which our king (our CEO, Branndon) completed in one minute, thirty seconds. Can you beat him? SudokuToday’s puzzle, while it may be creatively titled “#2,” is number two in no one’s heart. |
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🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best |  | A battle royale with cheese |  Image: Canva/The DONUT | |
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📜 Answers |  | E, D, C, B, A (aka reverse order) - E) 1912: American multi-sport stud Jim Thorpe wins a gold medal for the decathlon at the Olympics in Stockholm; he also captures a gold medal for the pentathlon.
- D) 1978: American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performs at the Blackbushe Aerodrome in Camberley, England before 200,000 people, concluding his European Tour.
- C) 1988: Die Hard is released in US theatres, launching a hugely popular series and helping establish Bruce Willis as an action star.
- B) 1997: Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace is murdered by a serial killer.
- A) 2006: Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone publicly launch their online microblogging service, Twitter.
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