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Sometimes you end up with Peyton Manning. Other times, Ryan Leaf.

Over the course of three days every year, representatives from all 32 NFL teams gather to draft the next generation of players who will hopefully propel their f

Scott Beggs


Criteria include ingenuity, staying power, the puzzles’ effect on history—and whether they gave the author a good kind of headache or bad kind of headache.

A.J. Jacobs






All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?

Ken Jennings