You never know what you’re gonna get. At Surprise Scoop, a new ice cream shop in the East Village, customers don’t get to choose a flavor. The only menu item is “surprise ice cream” ($9.18).

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The shop at 59 Main St., which caught the eye of passersby thanks to a monster truck parked outside, opened in 2014 with nine flavors of ice cream.

The line at a Connecticut ice cream shop is out the door and down the block by 2 p.m. every day and co-owner Colin Desmarais figures that because it’s in the heart of a busy tourist town the ...