Brandoozle #71 answer

How players did

Players

28

Solved

79%

22 of 28

Average turns

2.5

among solvers

Difficulty

hard

1 rating

Half of the players who solved it did so by stage 3 of 6 — the measure of how little of the logo people needed.

The six facts

1. A Massachusetts rubber shoe company founded in 1908.

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2. One of the first of its kind, designed as a non-skid for basketball.

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3. Its canvas high-top was the standard basketball shoe for forty years.

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4. A basketball player joined as a salesman in 1921 and got his name on the ankle patch.

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5. It went bankrupt in 2001 and was bought by a rival two years later.

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6. Punk and grunge musicians adopted it long after athletes abandoned it.

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