THEME: DIF

PUB DATE	WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	THEMES	LINKS TO THIS CONTEST	WINNER	LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later)
March 3, 1996	155	COMPARISON SHOPPING	Explain the difference between any two of the above items.	DIF	Text file | Contest image	Chuck Smith	Text file | Contest image
June 9, 1996	169	DIFF'RENT JOKES	Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items.	DIF	Text file | Contest image	David "Stockton" Smith	Text file | Contest image
January 5, 1997	199	WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?	Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items.	DIF	Text file | Contest image	Rob Klotz	Text file | Contest image
June 28, 1998	276	SPIT THE DIFFERENCE	Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items.	DIF	Text file	Russell Beland	Text file
August 2, 1998	281	CALCULATE THE ODDS	Tell us which of the two provided items does not belong with the other two, and why.	DIF	Text file	J. Larry Schott	Text file
May 20, 2001	402 (LXIX)	Spitting the Difference	Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items.	DIF	Text file | Contest image	Jim Pond	Text file | Contest image
April 28, 2002	451 (CXVIII)	Make Your Pix	Which two of the provided cartoons are related, and how?	CAR DIF	Text file	Dan Steinberg	Text file
August 11, 2002	466 (CXXXIII)	Spit the Difference	Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items.	DIF	Text file	Chris Doyle	Text file
May 9, 2004	557	Oh, for Namesakes!	Take two people, real or fictional, who share some element of their names and explain the difference between them.	DIF	Text file | Contest image	Brendan Beary	Text file | Contest image
June 20, 2004	563	Take Two	Take any two of the provided items and explain how they resemble or differ from each other.	DIF	Text file	Mark Young	Text file
April 10, 2005	605	Truly Stupendous Ideas	Name two people with the same initials (the people can be living or dead, real or fictional) and explain how they are similar or different.	DIF LET	Text file	Mark Eckenwiler	Text file
September 18, 2005	628	You Gotta Have Connections	Choose any two or more items from the provided truly random list and describe how they are alike or different.	DIF	Text file	David "Stockton" Smith	Text file
January 14, 2007	697	We Beg You To Differ	Take any two items from the truly random provided list and explain why they are different or why they are similar.	DIF	Text file	Dave Komornik	Text file
November 3, 2007	738	So What's To Liken?	Take any two items from the utterly random list above and explain how they are different or how they are similar.	DIF	Text file	Chuck Smith	Text file
March 1, 2008	754	Canny Similarities	Cite a humorous "uncanny similarity" between any two of the very different people listed above.	DIF	Text file	Larry Yungk	Text file
June 13, 2009	821	Spit the Difference	How are any of the items on the list above alike or different?	DIF	Text file | Contest image	Dan Ramish	Text file | Contest image
August 21, 2010	883	Same difference	Choose any two items from the list above and explain why they are alike or are different from each other.	DIF	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Craig Dykstra	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
August 28, 2011	934	Same difference	Explain how any two items in the provided list are similar or different.	DIF	Text file	Rob Huffman	Text file
May 20, 2012	972	Trends and neighbors	Choose any two items on the provided list and explain how they are alike or different.	DIF	Text file | Contest image	Bird Waring	Text file | Contest image
September 30, 2012	990	Indecent relations	Pair two people, real or fictional, who have the same last name; say how they're alike or different, or something they might do (even in fantasy), as a pair.	DIF	Text file | Post e-version	Robert Schechter	Text file | Post e-version
May 19, 2013	1022	What's the diff?	Explain how any two of the provided items are alike or different.	DIF	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Michael Gips	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 9, 2014	1063	Same difference	Take any two items from the provided list and explain how they're similar or different.	DIF	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Dave Letizia	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version (pub 4-6-14) Text file | Contest image | Post e-version (pub 4-27-14)
May 11, 2014	1071	A pair of threes	Choose two or three entities represented by a single three-letter combination at bit.ly/3letterabs and say how they are alike or different.	LET DIF	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Rob Huffman	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
April 19, 2015	1120	Celebrating our differences	Each of the provided 17 items appeared in a different Style Invitational compare/contrast contest from 1996 to 2014. Explain how any two of them are alike or different or otherwise linked. (Conversational text)	DIF	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Jaclyn Yamada	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 20, 2016	1167	So what's to liken?	Take any two items from the provided list and explain how they're similar or different, or connect them some other way. (Conversational text)	DIF	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Mike Ostapiej	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
April 23, 2017	1224	We beg you to differ	Explain how any two (or more) items in the provided list are the same or different, or otherwise connected. (Conversational text)	DIF	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Melissa Balmain	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
June 17, 2018	1284	Same difference	Explain how any two of the items in the provided list are similar, different or otherwise linked.	DIF	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Jerome Uher	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
September 8, 2019	1348	Same difference	Explain humorously how any two or more of the provided items are alike, different or otherwise connected.	DIF	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Jon Ketzner	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
June 28, 2020	1390	'Same difference' for a new time	Explain how any two of the items in the provided list are similar, different or otherwise linked. (Conversational text)	DIF	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Jesse Frankovich	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version