Good evening. In tonight’s edition:

• 📜 Déjà vu all over again
• 🧩 New puzzles
• 🍨 The GOAT ice cream flavors

…and much more.

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Each of the following events happened on September 22. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) MLB baseball player, manager, and coach Yogi Berra, who won a record 10 World Series while a star catcher with the New York Yankees, dies. Berra is also remembered for his unintentionally amusing non sequiturs—including: “when you come to a fork in the road, take it” ; “You can observe a lot by watching" ; "The future ain't what it used to be" ; "No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded" ; "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours" ; and the headline above👆.
• B) President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It sets a date for the freedom of 3+ million enslaved in the US, and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery.
• C) The first episode of Friends airs on NBC. The show goes on to become one of the most popular sitcoms in the US—”a cultural juggernaut, shaping comedy and pop culture for decades,” Cord Cutters News reports.
• D) National Geographic publishes its first issue, without photos—though it would later become famous for its richly illustrated articles on various geographic regions of the world. The magazine has so few subscribers starting off that editor Gilbert H. Grosvenor personally addresses each copy, and carries the whole pile of them to the post office.

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It’s not quite therapy, but today’s Conjoiner sequence will still get you to open up (and can also be done laying down).

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “When a flower bud appears on a tree or bush”...

Mini

Today’s mini crossword requires more computing power than a Macintosh McIntosh. See if you have what it takes👇.

• Play today’s mini crossword here.

Sudoku

One through nine, place ‘em in a grid and line. Afterwards you’ll feel mighty fine.

• 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 AMERICAN OLYMPIANS OF ALL TIME
• 🤠 THE GREATEST TAYLOR SHERIDAN SHOWS OF ALL TIME
• 🍿 THE GREATEST JASON MOMOA PERFORMANCES OF ALL TIME

🗣️ THE GREATEST ESPN PERSONALITIES OF ALL TIME

1. Chris Berman
2. Dick Vitale (Dickie V, baby!), who’s juuuust ahead of…
3. Stuart Scott

Explore the full list.

♟️ THE GREATEST CLASSIC BOARD GAMES OF ALL TIME

1. Monopoly
2. Trivial Pursuit
3. Scrabble

Explore the full list (where the game of ‘Life” was served a life lesson).

🍨 THE GREATEST ICE CREAM FLAVORS OF ALL TIME

1. Chocolate
2. Moose Tracks
3. Rocky Road

Explore the full list.

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

B, D, C, A

• B) 1862: President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
• D) 1888: National Geographic publishes its first issue.
• C) 1994: The first episode of Friends airs on NBC.
• A) 2015: Legendary MLB baseball player, manager, and coach Yogi Berra dies.