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• 🧩 New puzzles
• 🍰 Tasty pastry

…and much more.

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Each of the following events happened on May 6. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) The airship Hindenburg, the largest ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, bursts into flames upon touching its mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers and crew members.
• B) Crazy Horse, a leader in the Sioux resistance to European Americans' invasion of the northern Great Plains, surrenders in Nebraska due to his tribe being severely weakened by cold and hunger.
• C) The final episode of Friends airs on NBC, drawing ~51.1M viewers. NBC charges advertisers an average of $2M per 30 seconds of ad time, a record amount for a sitcom and just shy of Super Bowl prices.
• D) Roger Bannister cracks track and field’s most notorious barrier: the four-minute mile. The 25-year-old medical student wins the mile race with a time of 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds.

Hint: Friends are the last thing most people can live without

Imagine getting into bed and staying comfortable all night, whether someone is climbing in bed, trying to steal the covers, or waking up mid-sleep.

Sierra Dreams is built for better sleep. Breathable linen keeps you cool, even when the bed fills up. Plant-based kapok inserts stay soft without trapping heat. And the Align™ system keeps everything in place, so there’s no midnight readjustment.

It’s the kind of setup that makes a full night feel easier, even when it’s not uninterrupted.

Breathing is the key—both to running, and today’s Conjoiner. Run through all the clues, high and low, to finish the puzzle.

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Distance race conducted across fields, hills, and uneven ground”...

Mini

Today’s mini should be a piece of… well, it should be easy. Take a bite out of the puzzle below.

• Play today’s mini crossword.

Sudoku

Take a seat, there’s work to do; every number in a box, nothing new.

• Play today's puzzle.

Getting a print job right once is one thing, but maintaining that same level of quality across every run takes intention. Printwell uses structured reviews and built-in checkpoints to keep your color, finish, and overall quality consistent from one project to the next.

If something doesn’t look right, it doesn’t just move forward and become your problem later. Their team flags issues early and works with you to fix them before anything goes to print.

One day these snacks ruled lunch tables, gas stations, and sleepovers. The next? Gone in an instant.

Now, the top tasty treats of the past are facing off on GOATWars, where you get to decide which discontinued snack is the best of all time.

Showdowns include:

• Choco Taco 🆚 Dunkaroos 
• Altoids Sours 🆚 Yogos 
• Crystal Pepsi 🆚 Surge 

B, A, D, C

• B) 1877 – Sioux resistance leader Crazy Horse surrenders to US troops.
• A) 1937 – The Hindenburg disaster occurs.
• D) 1954 – Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile.
• C) 2004 – Friends airs its final episode.