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  • 🚂 Once upon a time
  • 🧩 New puzzles
  • 🍕 GOAT pizza chains

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📜 November 18: On This Day in History

The legend of 42

Image: Dodger Blue

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

  • A) Three years after breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier, Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson becomes the league's first African-American MVP.
  • B) At exactly noon on this day, American and Canadian railroads begin using four continental time zones, officially ending the confusion of dealing with thousands of different local times.
  • C) The first push-button telephone debuts in the US, eventually replacing most rotary-dial models. With touch-tone dialing, customers can dial telephone numbers directly without having to talk to an operator.
  • D) Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune “Jonestown” in remote Guyana. It follows the assassination of US congressman Leo Ryan, who had come to assess Jonestown.

Hint: Caboose, but opposite

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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game

Off to Neverland

Don’t look like a lost boy trying to solve today’s conjoiner. Sprinkle some pixie dust and fly to the finish:

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Neverland hero who battles Captain Hook”...

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🧩 Puzzle Corner

Mini

*Wee-ooo wee-ooo* Here comes the sound of today’s mini. Escape the flashing lights and finish the puzzle below:

Sudoku

I got 9x9 problems, but a wrong number ain’t one.

🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best

Who’s the greatest animated sidekick ever?

From loyal goofballs to chaotic little scene-stealers, these sidekicks carried entire movies on their shoulders (and sometimes stole the spotlight completely). Now they’re teaming up—and facing off—on GoatWars in the Greatest Animated Movie Sidekick of All Time league.

Every vote builds your personal GOAT List, ranking the sidekicks you’d trust on any adventure.

Showdowns include:

...and much more.

👉 Cast Your Votes & Build Your GOAT List

🏆 Friday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In

🍕 THE GREATEST PIZZA CHAIN OF ALL TIME

  1. Pizza Hut
  2. Papa John’s
  3. Dominos Pizza
  4. California Pizza Kitchen
  5. Little Caesars

Explore the full list.

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

📜 Answers

B, A, C, D

  • B) 1883 – US railroads create four uniform time zones.
  • A) 1949 – Jackie Robinson becomes the league's first African-American MVP.
  • C) 1963 – The first push-button telephone debuts in the US.
  • D) 1978 – Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide.
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