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• 🚘 Park it like it’s hott
• 🧩 New puzzles
• 🎶 The best holiday songs in history

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Each of the following events happened on September 18. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) The 20,000-car parking lot at Canada’s West Edmonton Mall secures the Guinness World Record for the largest parking lot—a record that still stands today.
• B) Legendary American rock guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix—who fused American traditions of blues, jazz, rock, and soul with techniques of British avant-garde rock to redefine the electric guitar in his own image, according to Encyclopedia Britannica—dies of an overdose in London. His death at 27 years old, along with the deaths of several popular musicians of the same age around the same time period, including Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, gives rise to the infamous 27 Club.
• C) George Washington lays the cornerstone to the United States Capitol building, the home of the legislative branch of American government. However, it would take nearly a century to complete, as architects came and went, the British set fire to it, and it was called into use during the Civil War.
• D) Future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the International UFO Bureau, claiming he had seen an Unidentified Flying Object four years earlier. During his subsequent presidential campaign, Carter promises that, if elected president, he would encourage the gov’t to release “every piece of information” it has about UFOs. However, he backs away from this pledge once elected, saying that the release of some information might have “defense implications” and pose a threat to national security.

Hint: The UFO couldn’t park at the mall

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Mini

Today’s mini: “I have spirit, yes I do, I have spirit—how about you?”

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Sudoku

Today’s sudoku wants you to do a number on it. Go ahead, make its day🤠.

• Play today's puzzle here.

Click to play any (or all) of the three challenges below, then pick the GOAT through a series of head-to-head matchups. This data-driven process was developed to create definitive best-of-all-time lists using a more objective approach than random bloggers just publishing controversial opinions for clicks.

• 🗣️ THE GREATEST ESPN PERSONALITIES OF ALL TIME
• ♟️ THE GREATEST CLASSIC BOARD GAMES OF ALL TIME
• 🍨 THE GREATEST ICE CREAM FLAVORS OF ALL TIME

🦹 THE GREATEST CARTOON VILLAINS OF ALL TIME

1. Joker (Batman: The Animated Series)
2. Scar (The Lion King)
3. Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)

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🍿 THE GREATEST MICHAEL B. JORDAN MOVIES OF ALL TIME

1. Creed (2015)
2. Black Panther (2018)
3. Sinners (2025)

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🎶 THE GREATEST HOLIDAY SONGS OF ALL TIME

1. “White Christmas”
2. “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)”
3. “It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"

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Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change.

C, B, D, A

• C) 1793: George Washington lays the cornerstone to the United States Capitol building, the home of the legislative branch of American government.
• B) 1970: Legendary American rock guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix dies of an overdose in London.
• D) 1973: Future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the International UFO Bureau, claiming he had seen an Unidentified Flying Object four years earlier.
• A) 1981: The 20,000-car parking lot at Canada’s West Edmonton Mall secures the Guinness World Record for the largest parking lot—a record that still stands today.