Yearbook archive
Puzzle for September 9, 2026
Replay a past four-clue puzzle. The answer is hidden in a disclosure control to avoid spoilers in normal browsing.
Reveal the year
1959
🎬 Screen & Sound
One very long nap: An animated musical fantasy reached U.S. theaters, where a princess’s spinning-wheel curse was softened into a deep sleep awaiting true love’s kiss.
📚 Art & Literature
Potion-powered neighbors: A Gaulish village first appeared in the French magazine Pilote, where a strength-enhancing magic potion made resisting Julius Caesar’s army a neighborly group project.
🎬 Screen & Sound
Mistaken identity, maximum speed: A Hitchcock spy thriller was released, sending an innocent man across the United States as mysterious agents chased him over microfilm headed out of the country.
🗓️ On This Day
A devastating Montana quake: A magnitude 7.2 quake struck southwestern Montana, triggering a huge landslide that blocked the Madison River, formed a new body of water, and caused over 28 deaths.