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• 💡 Lighting the way
• 🧩 New puzzles
• 🎬 GOAT rewatchable movies

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

• A) Thomas Edison perfects the lightbulb. After trying thousands of ways to create the incandescent light bulb, Edison succeeds by passing electricity through a thin platinum filament in the glass vacuum bulb, which delays the filament from melting.
• B) Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first president of the Republic of Texas. Houston wins the election in a landslide after his historic victory at the battle of San Jacinto.
• C) French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre wins the Nobel Prize for literature—and then declines it, becoming the first person ever to do so.
• D) French balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin jumps out of a balloon over Paris using a silk parachute that he made himself, becoming the first person in history to parachute successfully.

Hint: 'Chute for the moon, and you’ll end up in first

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Today’s conjoiner starts with tiny spheres, big stakes. Can you be sure to not lose your mar… focus and complete it?

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Old school game with small glass spheres‘”...

Mini

Today’s mini might sound like a bayou song, but don’t let it lull you to sleep. Get some coffee and hop to it!

• Play today’s mini crossword here.

Sudoku

Four corners, nine boxes, endless delight; count your way to getting it right.

• Play today's puzzle here.

They ruled Total Request Live, your car stereo, and every middle school dance floor. These one-hit wonders burned bright and disappeared fast—but some still live rent-free in your head.

Now, they’re facing off in GoatWars to decide which 90s anthem still hits the hardest.

Every vote builds your personal GOAT List, tracking the songs you’ll never skip.

Showdowns include:

• Ice Ice Baby 🆚 Baby Got Back
• Torn 🆚 Closing Time
• Macarena 🆚 Mambo No. 5

🎮 THE GREATEST BRAND MASCOTS OF ALL TIME

1. M&M’s characters
2. Smokey Bear
3. Pillsbury Doughboy (all three are very tight)

Explore the full list.

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

D, B, A, C

• D) 1797 – André-Jacques Garnerin is the first person to successfully parachute, jumping 3,200 feet from a hydrogen balloon.
• B) 1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
• A) 1879 – Thomas Edison creates the incandescent lightbulb. Edison would receive a patent for his invention, which goes on to be one of the most influential inventions of all time.
• C) 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is the first person to win and then decline a Nobel Prize. He did so simply because he did not believe in prizes and refused all official honors.