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Happy Sunday! For today's brainbuster, we look back at a question that a whopping 70 percent of Tightrope players got wrong, making it little better than a guess! Here's your chance to correct that mistake: After his novel The Corrections was chosen for Oprah’s Book Club, who got uninvited from appearing on her show for criticizing her taste? A. Cormac McCarthy B. John Grisham C. Michael Chabon D. Jonathan Franzen This public dust-up happened in 2001, but by 2010 the two had squashed their beef, with Oprah selecting the author's next novel, Freedom, for her book list. Think you know it? Check below for the "write" answer!


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Happy Sunday! For today's brainbuster, we look back at a question that a whopping 70 percent of Tightrope players got wrong, making it little better than a guess! Here's your chance to correct that mistake: After his novel The Corrections was chosen for Oprah’s Book Club, who got uninvited from appearing on her show for criticizing her taste? A. Cormac McCarthy B. John Grisham C. Michael Chabon D. Jonathan Franzen This public dust-up happened in 2001, but by 2010 the two had squashed their beef, with Oprah selecting the author's next novel, Freedom, for her book list. Think you know it? Check below for the "write" answer!
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May 31, 2026

Happy Sunday! For today's brainbuster, we look back at a question that a whopping 70 percent of Tightrope players got wrong, making it little better than a guess! Here's your chance to correct that mistake:

 

After his novel The Corrections was chosen for Oprah’s Book Club, who got uninvited from appearing on her show for criticizing her taste?

 

A. Cormac McCarthy

B. John Grisham

C. Michael Chabon

D. Jonathan Franzen

 

This public dust-up happened in 2001, but by 2010 the two had squashed their beef, with Oprah selecting the author's next novel, Freedom, for her book list.  Think you know it? Check below for the "write" answer!

Tightrope / DAILY TRIVIA GAME

Which U.S. president became the first to leave the country while in office, visiting the Panama Canal during its construction in 1906?

a
Theodore Roosevelt
b
Abraham Lincoln
c
Dwight D. Eisenhower
d
Thomas Jefferson
Reunion / TODAY'S PUZZLE
Reunion
The right words bring them together.
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Revealed
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Quordle / TODAY'S SCORES

72%

SOLVE RATE

7.5

AVG. GUESSES

Can you beat Quordle?
Octordle / TODAY'S SCORES

68%

SOLVE RATE

11.7

AVG. GUESSES

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Blossom / TODAY'S PUZZLE
Pick your 12 best words!
LEVEL
Mild
35%
OF PLAYERS
BLOSSOM BOSS
300+ PTS
24%
OF PLAYERS
MEGA BOSS
350+ PTS
Beat Today's Blossom Scores
The Missing Letter / Sunday
46 Across
NOUN: "a watery solution that circulates through a plant's vascular system"
3 letters
Find Today's Missing Letter
Pilfer

Create words — 
and steal them! —
before your opponents do.

Play Pilfer

The answer is D. Jonathan Franzen!

 

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