Good evening. In tonight’s edition:

• 🛢️How Saudi Aramco was founded
• 🧩 New puzzles
• 🪞 The GOAT Black Mirror characters

…and much more.

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Each of the following events happened on September 23. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) After receiving concessions to locate and extract oil in Saudi Arabia from the country’s gov’t, a party of American geologists working for Rockefeller’s Standard Oil lands at the Persian Gulf port of Jubail in Saudi Arabia, and begins its journey into the desert to locate the most profitable spot to begin drilling. The partnership between Saudi Arabia’s gov’t and Standard Oil becomes known as the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco)—now Saudi Aramco, the fourth-largest company in the world by revenue (market cap: ~$1.6 trillion).
• B) Manon Rheaume becomes the first woman to play in one of the four major men's North American pro sports leagues, when she takes the ice for the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning in a preseason game.
• C) American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark return to St. Louis, Missouri, to much fanfare, after completing the first recorded overland journey from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast and back. The Lewis and Clark Expedition had set off more than two years before to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase.
• D) German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle becomes the first person to ever observe the planet Neptune (#8 from the Sun), the existence of which had been mathematically predicted by Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier and John Couch Adams. The blue gas giant, which has a diameter ~4x that of Earth and completes an orbit of the Sun once every 165 years, is named for the Roman god of the sea.

Hint: If you need to nep-tune your answers, go on a journey first and try rearranging the planet second.

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Today’s Conjoiner sequence hails from the Costco of US states, where everything’s bigger, louder, and you leave wondering why you bought so much brisket. LoneStart it below👇.

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Peak law enforcement agent in Texas”...

Mini

The answer to the first clue in today’s mini crossword has more rings than your average redwood tree (a whole Bunch). Think you know it?

• Play today’s mini crossword here.

Sudoku

Today’s sudoku has more classical numbers than Beethoven’s catalog. Say Für Eli-yes to the experience👇.

• 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 FAST-CASUAL CHAINS OF ALL TIME
• 🍿 THE GREATEST BILL MURRAY MOVIES OF ALL TIME
• 🧟 RANKING CHARACTERS FROM ‘THE LAST OF US,’ GREATEST TO LEAST

🧑‍🍳 RANKING CHARACTERS FROM ‘THE BEAR,’ GREATEST TO LEAST

1. Chef Carmy (portrayed by Jeremy Allen White)
2. Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri)
3. Richie Jerimovich (Ebon Moss-Bachrach)

Explore the full list.

🍿 THE GREATEST JONAH HILL MOVIES OF ALL TIME

1. Superbad (2007)
2. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
3. 21 Jump Street (2012)

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🪞 THE GREATEST ‘BLACK MIRROR’ CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME

1. Matt from 'White Christmas' (portrayed by Jon Hamm)
2. Lacie from 'Nosedive' (Bryce Dallas Howard)
3. Cooper from 'Playtest' (Wyatt Russell)

Explore the full list.

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

C, D, A, B

• C) 1806: American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark return to St. Louis, Missouri, to much fanfare, after completing the first recorded overland journey from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast and back.
• D) 1846: German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle becomes the first person to ever observe the planet Neptune.
• A) 1933: After receiving concessions to locate and extract oil in Saudi Arabia from the country’s gov’t, a party of American geologists working for Rockefeller’s Standard Oil lands at the Persian Gulf port of Jubail in Saudi Arabia, and begins its journey into the desert to locate the most profitable spot to begin drilling.
• B) 1992: Manon Rheaume becomes the first woman to play in one of the four major men's North American pro sports leagues, when she takes the ice for the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning in a preseason game.