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PUB DATE	WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	THEMES	LINKS TO THIS CONTEST	WINNER	LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later)
January 1, 1995	94	WEEKS 1-93	Come up with a great answer to any previous Style Invitational contest, an answer you may have thought of after the contest was over.	PRE	Text file | Contest image
June 22, 1997	223	ATTEMPTING REENTRY	Submit entries to any past contest, so long as you never submitted them before.	PRE	Text file | Contest image
January 18, 1998	253	IT'S A PITY	Enter any of the provided contests. Winners will be judged entirely on the basis of how pitiful an attempt at humor the entry is.	PRE	Text file | Contest image
September 27, 1998	289	PLAY IT AGAIN, SHAM	Submit entries to any previous contest, ideas you might have thought of after the contest deadline had passed.	PRE	Text file | Contest image
December 2, 2001	430 (XCVII)	OMB Directive No. 2	Revisit any contest The Style Invitational has ever run, and rewrite our tawdry past by proposing a new first-prize winner serious and/or decorous enough to please the Ombudsman.	PRE	Text file | Contest image
January 26, 2003	490 (CLVII)	Eyes on Reprise	Submit any good entries you might have thought of, for any previous contest, after the deadline passed.	PRE	Text file
March 9, 2003	496	The Style Invitational: The First Dreckade	Submit new entries to any of the old contests listed, and try to beat The Very Best of the Past 10 Years.	PRE	Text file | Contest image
December 28, 2003	538	Try, Try Again	Enter any previous Invitational. Your entry must be substantially different from the original winners.	PRE	Text file
November 6, 2005	635	I've Told You a Hundred Times	Enter any Style Invitational from Week 536 to Week 631. Your entry must be substantially different from the original winners.	PRE	Text file | Contest image
December 10, 2006	692	Reinkernation	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 640 through Week 688. Every entry must include the word "three" or "third" or a creative variation.	PRE	Text file
October 13, 2007	735	Look Back in Inker	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 680 through Week 731.	PRE	Text file | Post e-version
November 29, 2008	793	Take The Fifth	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 725 through Week 789. Each entry must include the word "five" of "fifth" or something fiveish, or -- depending on your favorite anniversary tradition -- something involving (a) wood or (b) silverware.	PRE	Text file | Post e-version
November 21, 2009	844	Healthy choice	Enter any Style Invitational from Week 790 through Week 840, except for Week 793 and Week 798.	PRE	Text file
November 13, 2010	894	Look Back in Inker	Enter any Style Invitational from Week 841 through Week 890 (except for Week 844).	PRE	Text file | Post e-version
December 4, 2011	948	Look back in Inker	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 891 through 945 (except for Week 896, which was the same contest for the previous year).	PRE	Text file
December 2, 2012	999	Drectrospective	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 946 through Week 995, except for Week 948.	PRE	Text file
March 3, 2013	1011	Top these!	Try your hand at any of the contests mentioned in this look back.	PRE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 7, 2014	1101	The year in redo	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 1047 through Week 1097, except for Week 1050. (Conversational text)	PRE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 6, 2015	1152	Oops? You do it again.	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 1098 through Week 1148, except for Week 1101, last year's do-over. (Conversational text)	STY PRE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 11, 2016	1205	Could we just have a do-over? Yes, we could.	Enter (or re-enter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1149 to 1201, except for Week 1152, last year's do-over. (Conversational text)	PRE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 18, 2016	1206	Do-over the do-over -- enter any of the year's contests	Enter (or re-enter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1149 to 1202, except for Week 1152, last year's do-over. (Conversational text)	PRE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 10, 2017	1257	The year in redo, Part 1	Enter (or re-enter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1203 through Week 1229, except for Weeks 1205 and 1206. (Conversational text)	PRE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 17, 2017	1258	The year in redo, Part 2	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1230 through Week 1254. (Conversational text)	PRE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 9, 2018	1309	The Year in Redo, Part 1	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1255 through Week 1281.	PRE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 16, 2018	1310	The Year in Redo, Part 2	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1282 through Week 1306.	PRE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 15, 2019	1362	The Year in Redo, Part 1	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1307 through 1333, except for Weeks 1309-1311. (Conversational text)	PRE STY	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 22, 2019	1363	The Year in Redo, Part 2	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1334 through Week 1359. (Conversational text)	PRE STY	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
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