Good evening. In tonight’s edition:

• 🏈 "The Play"
• 🧩 New puzzles
• 🍿 GOAT animated sidekicks

…and much more.

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In yesterday's edition, the clue for On This Day in History gave the wrong answer due to a last-minute editorial change. 

Apologies for the confusion, and thanks to everyone who reached out.

Each of the following events happened on November 20. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) Cal Berkeley’s football team earns an improbable last-second victory over Stanford after completing five lateral passes around members of Stanford’s marching band—who wander onto the field too early—to score a touchdown.
• B) Frenchman Pierre Lallement receives a US patent for the nation's first pedal bicycle. But after failing to acquire enough funds to open a factory, Lallement later sells the patent rights to Albert Pope, who makes a small fortune producing the Columbia bicycle.
• C) The American whaler Essex is attacked and capsized by an 80-ton sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean. This incident serves as the inspiration for the classic novel Moby Dick.
• D) 24 high-ranking Nazis go on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II. The Nuremberg trials are the first of their kind in history, and conducted by an international tribunal made up of representatives from the US, Soviet Union, France and Great Britain.

Hint: Coming in first represents many people’s white whale

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You set the minimum price. They auction to 1,000+ competing buyers. Fully insured shipping and handling. Your personal auction manager guides you through everything.

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The force of today’s conjoiner may try to keep you down. Can you keep your feet planted and still beat it?

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Downward-pulling force that gives objects weight”...

Mini

Today’s mini will take you on a trip to Flavortown. Find the right combination of tastes to beat the puzzle:

• Play today’s mini crossword here.

Sudoku

Turn off the Zoom, tune up the grid. 1 to 9, go get ‘em kid.

• Play today's puzzle here.

From time-traveling teens to caped crusaders to hobbits saving Middle-earth, these trilogies defined eras of moviegoing — and rewrote what storytelling on the big screen could be. Now they’re going film-for-film on GoatWars in the Greatest Movie Trilogies of All Time league.

Every vote builds your personal GOAT List, ranking the trilogies you’ll rewatch from beginning to end without blinking.

Trilogy showdowns include:

• Lord of the Rings 🆚 The Dark Knight
• Star Wars 🆚 Back to the Future
• Godfather 🆚 The Matrix

🍿 THE GREATEST ANIMATED MOVIE SIDEKICKS OF ALL TIME

1. Donkey (Shrek)
2. Genie (Aladdin)
3. Timon and Pumba (The Lion King)
4. Olaf (Frozen)
5. Dory (Finding Nemo)

Explore the full list.

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

C, B, D, A

• C) 1820 – The American whaler Essex is attacked by an 80-ton sperm whale, serving as the inspiration for Moby Dick.
• B) 1866 – Pierre Lallement receives a US patent for the nation's first pedal bicycle.
• D) 1946 – The Nuremberg trials begin in Germany. Over the following 10 months: 12 architects of Nazi policy are sentenced to death, seven are sentenced to prison (ranging from 10 years to life), three are acquitted, one commits suicide in prison, and the last is deemed unfit to stand trial.
• A) 1982 – Cal beats Stanford thanks to “The Play.” Watch it here.