publication date: Sunday, March 28, 2021 (part of Spring 2021)

category: Art

clue: It's not every day that someone pays $69 million for a JPG file, but he's no ordinary artist.

explanation: Winkelmann, known online as Beeple, is a digital artist who has created a new work daily since 2007 in a series that he calls "Everydays." A collage of the work was sold as an NFT in 2021 for $69 million. more…

intended difficulty: medium

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Denise Sawicki, Erik Bates, and Mike Eberhart


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