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Monday, Mar 30 2026

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Good evening. In tonight’s edition:

  • ☕ Seattle’s finest
  • 🧩 New puzzles
  • ☀️ GOAT weekend activities

…and much more.

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📜 March 30: On This Day in History

Brewed beginnings

Image: Starbucks Melody

Each of the following events happened on March 30. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

  • A) Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle's iconic Pike Place market with a single employee. The store sells high-quality roasted coffee beans, freshly brewed hot coffee and not much else. The founders named their business "Starbucks" after the first mate from the novel Moby Dick.
  • B) Detective Comics No. 27 appears on America’s newsstands, introducing the world to a new superhero called the Batman. His first adventure, a six-page story drawn by Bob Kane and written by Bill Finger, also introduces the character’s alter ego: millionaire Bruce Wayne.
  • C) US Secretary of State William H. Seward signs a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7 million. Despite the bargain price (~2 cents/acre), the Alaskan purchase was ridiculed in Congress and in the press as “Seward’s Folly,” “Seward’s icebox,” and President Andrew Johnson’s “polar bear garden.” However, the discovery of gold in Alaska would end the derogatory nicknames.
  • D) President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by a drifter named John Hinckley Jr. He’s shot in the left lung, with the bullet just missing his heart. Reagan would come out of surgery in stable and good condition, even taking up some executive duties the next day.

Hint: Having a rough day? Get a triple shot espresso on your next Starbucks run

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Answer: B

🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game

Cup of Joe

You’ll need to brew a strong pot for today’s Conjoiner. Can the caffeine get you through to the end of the sequence?

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Brewed drink made from roasted beans”...

Play the sequence here

🧩 Puzzle Corner

Mini

Get hydrated with today’s mini. Let the clues flow, and solve the puzzle below.

Sudoku

The week begins, the board’s in view; start things right with a grid to do.

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

What's the greatest game show of all time?

Some shows test what you know. Others test how you play. And some are just about surviving the moment. Now, they're going head-to-head on GOAT Wars to decide who's the ultimate winner.

Each vote builds your personal GOAT List, where you have the final say on what makes a game show actually great.

Showdowns include:

...and much more.

Start your GOAT List here

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

☀️ THE GREATEST WEEKEND ACTIVITIES OF ALL TIME

  1. Sleeping in
  2. Road trip
  3. Watching live sports
  4. Beach day
  5. Backyard BBQ/cookout

Explore the full list.

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

📜 Answers

C, B, A, D

  • C) 1867 – Secretary of State William H. Seward purchases Alaska from Russia.
  • B) 1939 – Batman debuts in Detective Comics No. 27. Detective Comics would later change its name to DC.
  • A) 1971 – Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle's iconic Pike Place market.
  • D) 1981 – President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by a drifter named John Hinckley Jr, but quickly recovers.
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