| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1123 | The Tile Invitational III | Give us a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or two words) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided seven-letter sets. | H |
| 1034 | What's to like? | Supply an original joke of the form "I like my [your choice] the way I like my [something else of your choice]: [some clever, funny parallel]. | H |
| 989 | On the double | Come up with a double or multiple profession, and explain how each job complements the other(s). | H |
| 987 | Bank shots | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 6 through Sept. 17 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. | H |
| 851 | Going to the shrink | Downsize the title of a book, movie or play to make it smaller or less momentous and describe it. | W |
| 843 | Prefrains | Provide a sentence or two of lead-in to the first line of a well-known book, poem, or song. | P |
| 827 | Caller Idiot | Name a real product or company and supply a stupid question or complaint for the consumer hotline person. | H |
| 817 | Flopflip | Reverse the first half and second half of a word or name and define the result. | P |
| 646 | Warped Perspectives | Tell us how two different types of people, animals, organizations, etc., would interpret any of the provided cartoons. | H |
| 437 | The Telegraph Poll | Tell us the beginning of a joke that badly telegraphs the punch line. | 1 |
| 368 | Hyphen the Terrible | Combine the first half of any hyphenated word in a story in today's paper with the second part of a different hyphenated word from the same story, and provide a new definition. | U |