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  • 🚢 Unsinkable
  • 🧩 New puzzles
  • 🍟 GOAT fast food sauces

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📜 March 23: On This Day in History

I’ll never let go

Image: Titanic/20th Century Studios

Each of the following events happened on March 23. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

  • A) Titanic earns 11 Academy Awards including the coveted Best Picture, tying Ben Hur for most Oscar wins of all time.
  • B) President Ronald Reagan proposes the Strategic Defense Initiative, a program aimed at developing antimissile technology that would make the country nearly impervious to attack by nuclear missiles.
  • C) Patrick Henry gives a speech before the second Virginia Convention and declares: “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
  • D) Vermont inventor Elisha Otis installs the first commercial elevator in an upscale department store in New York City. The steam-powered mechanism moves just 40 feet per minute, and has a safety catch to prevent falling if the rope breaks.

Hint: All it takes is one fiery speech to spark a revolution

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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game

Frozen floating mountain

The first clue is just the tip of what awaits in today’s Conjoiner. Avoid getting sunk by the clues to solve the puzzle.

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Glacier fragment drifting at sea”...

Play the sequence here

🧩 Puzzle Corner

Mini

Grab some hay out of today’s clue and tend the horses. Solve the puzzle below to show you weren’t raised in one.

Sudoku

The week’s first step is up to you. Steady the rows, and see it through.

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

What's the greatest sports drink of all time?

Some sports drinks are built for athletes, while others offer a pick-me-up for all comers. Now they're going head-to-head on GOAT Wars to decide the top performer.

Each vote builds your personal GOAT List, where you decide which is the best sports drink of all time.

Showdowns include:

...and much more.

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

🍟 THE GREATEST FAST FOOD SAUCES OF ALL TIME

  1. Wendy’s Frosty
  2. Chick-Fil-A sauce
  3. McDonald’s Big Mac sauce
  4. Raising Cane’s sauce
  5. Arby’s Horsey sauce

Explore the full list.

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

📜 Answers

C, D, B, A

  • C) 1775 – Patrick Henry gives his famous “give me liberty, or give me death” speech in response to increasingly oppressive British rule over the American colonies.
  • D) 1857 – Elisha Otis installs the first commercial elevator.
  • B) 1983 – President Reagan announces the Strategic Defense Initiative aimed at preventing nuclear attacks on the US.
  • A) 1997 – Titanic wins 11 Academy Awards, tying Ben Hur for the most ever. They were later joined by Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.
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