| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1169 | Be caustic by acrostic | Review or otherwise describe a movie, book, play or TV show (or Internet equivalent) with words whose first letters spell out the name of the work. | P |
| 971 | Double booking | Come up with a double book with a humorous connection; the first title must be an actual book, while the other may be your own fictitious title or a second real book. | H |
| 955 | Twits' twist | Create a phrase by combining a word or phrase with an anagram of that word or phrase, and define or describe it. | H |
| 917 | Wryku | Write a haiku--a sentiment that can be broken into three lines with exactly five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third--on any subject that's been in the news in the last couple of weeks. | H |
| 877 | Quipped from the headlines | Write a rhyming couplet about some matter in the news. | I |
| 870 | Let's play Nopardy | Describe any of the above phrases in the form of a question. | H |
| 866 | Natalie Portmanteau | Begin with a real name; append to it a word, name or expression so that they overlap; and finally define (humorously, of course) the resulting phrase. | H |
| 865 | No Googlenopes left | Come up with a humorous Googlenope. | H |
| 833 | Our Greatest Hit | Start with a real word or multi-word term or name that begins with M, N, O, or P; add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word. | H H |
| 823 | Wryku | Compose a humorous (or at least wry or clever) haiku. | H |
| 815 | Wittecisms | Create an original word containing -- in any order -- at least a W, an I, two T's and an E. | H |
| 808 | Take Us At Our Words | Create a humorous poem or other writing using only the words contained in this week's Style Invitational column or results. | 4 |
| 803 | The Pepys Show | Write a humorous diary or journal entry for someone, famous or not, for any point in history. | I H |
| 802 | Dreck TV | Suggest a new cable TV channel, with a description or example of its programming. | H |
| 798 | Dead Letters | Write a humorous poem commemorating someone who died in 2008. | H |
| 781 | Our Greatest Hit | Start with a word or multi-word term that begins with I, J, K or L; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word. | H |
| 780 | Location, Location, Location | Say how you know you're in a particular place. | H |
| 778 | Tied Games | Combine any two sports or nonathletic activities into a single sport or game. | 3 |
| 773 | Always Looking for Sects | Coin a religion or belief system and tell us its basic tenet or distinguishing characteristic. | H |
| 762 | Look This Up in Your Funk & Wagnalls | Supply the pair of terms listed at the top of a page of any print dictionary to indicate the first and last listings on the page, and define that hyphenated term. | H |
| 758 | Wrong Address | Using any of the words of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in whatever order you like, create your own passage. | I I H 2 |
| 752 | The Might-Mates Right | Fill out any of these five "you just might" joke-templates. | H H |
| 749 | Opus 266, No. 3 | Take any common word or two-word term beginning with any letter from A through H and give it a new definition. | 2 |
| 748 | Dead Letters | Write a humorous poem about a well-known personage who died in 2007. | H H H |
| 747 | Boeing Us Silly | Suggest some comical ways to improve air travel, either in general or for yourself. | H |
| 741 | Well, What Do You Know? | Tell us what Major Life Lessons can be derived from any of these venues or situations. | H |
| 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. | H |
| 735 | Look Back in Inker | Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 680 through Week 731. | W H |
| 734 | Turnaround Time | Write a rhyming couplet containing two words that are anagrams of each other. | H |
| 733 | Just Drop It, Okay? | Drop the first letter from an actual word or term to make a new word or term, and define it. | M |
| 730 | Time-Wastes For Everyman | Describe activities that make entering The Style Invitational seem like a constructive use of one's time. | W |
| 725 | Beggars For Description | Describe, without being boring, a cartoon to fit any of the provided captions. | T M |
| 724 | Abridged Too Far | Sum up a book, play or movie in a humorous rhyming verse of two to four lines. | H |
| 723 | Name Your Poison | Create a name and recipe for a cocktail and, if you like, describe when it might be served. | H |
| 717 | Pitch Us a No-Hitter | Send us some genuine Googlenopes. A Googlenope is a phrase or very brief sentence that, entered into the Google search engine with quotation marks around it, produces no hits. | H H H |
| 716 | The Hard Spell | Write a humorous poem featuring one of the 75 words we've selected from this year's National Spelling Bee. | H H H |
| 707 | What Would YOU Do? | Use only the words appearing in "The Cat in the Hat" to create your own work of "literature" of no more than 75 words. | 2 |
| 700 | Stump Us | Come up with someone's slogan for the 2008 presidential campaign. | H |
| 695 | Dead Letters | Write a poem about someone who died in 2006. | H |
| 684 | Backtricking | Spell a word backward and define the result, somehow relating the definition to the original word. | H 2 |
| 677 | The News Gets Verse | Sum up wittily in verse -- but not a limerick -- any article appearing in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from Aug. 28 through Sept. 4. | H |