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Thursday, May 28 2026

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Good evening. In tonight’s edition:

  • 🦍 RIP Harambe
  • 🧩 New puzzles
  • 🍻 GOAT fictional bars/restaurants

…and much more.

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📜 May 28: On This Day in History

Timelines go ape

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Each of the following events happened on May 28. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

  • A) Harambe the gorilla is shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo after a three-year-old boy fell into his enclosure. The incident prompts debates in the US over how to handle the situation, and is often joked about as the moment where humanity’s timeline shifted into an absurd and chaotic alternative universe.
  • B) Volkswagen is founded by the government of Germany, then under the control of Adolf Hitler, as a new state-owned automobile company. After less than a year under a different title, the automaker is renamed Volkswagenwerk, or “The People’s Car Company.”
  • C) President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act into law, enabling the federal government to negotiate with Native American tribes for their ancestral lands within existing U.S. state borders, in exchange for unsettled land west of the Mississippi River. As a result, some 60,000 Native Americans are forced westward into “Indian Territory” (present-day Oklahoma). Their forced mass migration, which results in 4,000+ deaths, becomes known as the Trail of Tears.
  • D) The Dionne quintuplets, the first known to survive infancy, are born in Ontario. The five girls were housed for their first nine years in a kind of "baby zoo," ogled by thousands of tourists daily.

Hint: Some say Harambe was the last straw holding the universe together

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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game

The Maine course

Today’s Conjoiner is buttery smooth. Use the clues to get out of a pinch and solve the puzzle.

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Large marine crustacean known for tasty claw and tail meat”...

Play the sequence here

🧩 Puzzle Corner

Mini

Open up today’s mini to find a series of snapshots that lead you to the completed puzzle. Can you put the clues together and finish the big picture?

Sudoku

The week rolls on, right on cue; reset your mind with a medium-hard sudoku.

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

What's the greatest fictional company of all time?

Image: GOATWars

Some of these companies sold ordinary products, while others accidentally created disasters.

Now, the top fictional companies are going head-to-head to see which made-up brand left the most lasting impact on viewers.

Showdowns include:

Start your GOAT List

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

🍻 THE GREATEST FICTIONAL BAR/RESTAURANT OF ALL TIME

  1. Cheers (Cheers)
  2. Central Perk (Friends)
  3. Moe’s Tavern (The Simpsons)
  4. Monk’s Cafe (Seinfeld)
  5. The Krusty Krab (Spongebob Squarepants)

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) 1830 – President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act into law.
  • D) 1934 – The Dionne quintuplets are born in Ontario.
  • B) 1937 – Volkswagen is founded by the German government.
  • A) 2016 – Harambe is shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo.
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