Good evening. In tonight’s edition:

• 🦃 Thanksgiving’s origin
• 🧩 New puzzles
• 🍬 The GOAT Halloween candy

…and much more.

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Each of the following events happened on October 3. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) O.J. Simpson is acquitted, as a jury finds him not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. In the epic 252-day trial, Simpson’s “dream team” of lawyers—including Robert Kardashian, of Kardashian family fame (though that came later)—employed creative and controversial methods to convince jurors that Simpson’s guilt had not been proved “beyond a reasonable doubt,” thus surmounting what the prosecution called a “mountain of evidence” implicating him as the murderer, the History Channel reports.
• B) The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published. Its inspiration came to Hugh Jeffries, the managing director of Guinness Breweries, while trying to settle an argument on a hunting trip in Ireland—during which the trip’s members debated incessantly about the fastest game bird in Europe, yet were unable to locate a book with the answer.
• C) US President Abraham Lincoln, while expressing gratitude for a pivotal Union victory at Gettysburg, announces that the nation will celebrate an official Thanksgiving holiday on the last Thursday of every November.
• D) American collegiate football coach John Heisman, considered one of the greatest innovators of the game, dies. The Heisman, a trophy given annually to the best player in college football, still bears his name.

Hint: First, give thanks. Then strike a pose.

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Completing a Friday conjoiner always results in pure elation. Knock this game out and float into the weekend.

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Blissful, or a Zendaya-starring HBO show‘”...

Mini

Today’s mini is like an annual trip to the doctor—sure to cause some knee-jerk reactions🔨. Can you make it to the end?

• Play today’s mini crossword here.

Sudoku

One through nine, it’s all by design—solve the grid and you’ll do just fine.

• Play today's sudoku 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 HYPER CARS OF ALL TIME
• 🚗 THE GREATEST SUPER CARS OF ALL TIME
• 🚙 THE GREATEST JDM CARS OF ALL TIME

Wtf is the difference??

🍬 THE GREATEST HALLOWEEN CANDY OF ALL TIME

1. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, solidly in first
2. …followed by Snickers
3. …then Twix

Explore the full list.

🎃 THE GREATEST HALLOWEEN MOVIES OF ALL TIME

1. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
2. Halloween (1978)
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Explore the full list.

🎄 THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES OF ALL TIME

1. Home Alone (1990)
2. Elf (2003)
3. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), followed closely by A Christmas Story (1983)

Explore the full list, where #2-#4 is separated by roughly a point.

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

C, D, B, A

• C) 1863: US President Abraham Lincoln announces that the nation will celebrate an official Thanksgiving holiday on the last Thursday of every November.
• D) 1936: American collegiate football coach John Heisman, considered one of the greatest innovators of the game, dies.
• B) 1955: The first edition of The Guinness Book of Records is published.
• A) 1995: O.J. Simpson is acquitted, as a jury finds him not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.