Good evening. In tonight’s edition:

• 🎾 Making a racquet
• 🧩 New puzzles
• 🪀 GOAT childhood toys

…and much more.

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Each of the following events happened on January 21. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) American tennis player John McEnroe becomes the first player in 27 years to be disqualified from a Grand Slam tournament for misconduct, after letting his emotions go at the Australian Open.
• B) US President Jimmy Carter grants an unconditional pardon to hundreds of thousands of men who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War.
• C) The first-ever Concorde supersonic jets with commercial passengers simultaneously take flight from London’s Heathrow Airport and Orly Airport outside Paris.
• D) Angel Island in California's San Francisco Bay, known as the "Ellis Island of the West," opens as America's major port of entry for Asian immigrants. Over the next 30 years, an estimated 100,000 Chinese and 70,000 Japanese are processed through the station.

Hint: Two Concordes took off as part of the christening flight

He survived combat. Coming home was harder.

Days passed without talking to anyone. He stopped going places he used to enjoy. Even the gym felt out of reach.

Then another veteran reached out and met him there. No explanations. No labels. Just someone who knew what it was like to feel stuck.

Jake came back the next day. And the day after that.

There are 100+ veterans still waiting for someone to meet them where they are. You can be the reason one of them does not disappear.

You won’t get today’s conjoiner by trying to force it. Can you find the words with the right fit to solve the sequence?

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Four-sided pin that won’t fit in a round hole”...

Mini

To solve today’s mini, look up and let the night sky guide you. Simply connect the dots to solve the puzzle:

• Play today’s mini crossword here.

Sudoku

When the pace feels off or a little new, may this Sudoku settle you.

• Play today's puzzle here.

Every vote builds your personal GOAT List, ranking the worlds you’d step into, get lost in, and never fully escape.

Some settings feel lived-in. Others feel limitless. A few rewired how we imagine entire universes. Now they’re going head-to-head on GoatWars in the Greatest Fictional Settings of All Time league.

Showdowns include:

• Middle-Earth 🆚 Star Wars Galaxy
• Gotham City 🆚 Westeros
• Wizarding World 🆚 The Matrix

🧩 THE GREATEST CHILDHOOD TOY OF ALL TIME

1. LEGO sets
2. Game Boy
3. Play-Doh
4. Hot Wheels cars
5. Super Soakers

Explore the full list.

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

D, C, B, A

• D) 1910 – Angel Island in California's San Francisco Bay opens.
• C) 1976 – The first Concorde supersonic jets take flight.
• B) 1977 – President Jimmy Carter grants an unconditional pardon to Vietnam War draft dodgers.
• A) 1990 – John McEnroe is DQ’d from the Australian Open for misconduct.