Gone viral

Web designers Logan Engstrom and Garrett Finucane have created Hextris, a highly addictive online puzzle inspired by the arcade game Tetris. You control the rotatable black hexagon in the middle; the aim is to clear the stack by matching three colour blocks, which makes them disappear. Try it for yourself here.

Letters

To The Sunday Times:

Rod Liddle notes the odd notion that “authenticity” requires that only Jewish actors should play Jewish people. In Robert Oppenheimer’s case, complete authenticity would also require the actor to be a gifted atomic physicist, whose closest friends are card-carrying communists, and whom the USSR codenamed “Chester”. Casting directors may find this a difficult task.

Wade Smith, Sheringham, Norfolk

Sport

Chloe Kelly’s match-winning penalty for England against Nigeria last week was not only the fastest shot in the Women’s World Cup so far, says The Guardian – it was struck more powerfully than any male player managed in the Premier League last season. The ball travelled at 69mph, easily trumping the 66.6mph strike by West Ham’s Saïd Benrahma that topped the men’s rankings.

Snapshot

It’s a “wife-pleaser” – at least, that’s what Gen Z TikTokers are now calling it, says Maddy Mussen in the Evening Standard. For years, the humble white vest was known as the “wife-beater”, associated with “Stella Artois-sloshing, red-faced male abusers”. But that somewhat unsettling nickname has been “largely retired”, and with the garment now coming back into fashion, a new name was needed. Hence: wife-pleaser.