| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1561 | Let It Be a Lesson to Us | Tell us some things to be learned from Costco, the bathroom, TV shows, etc. | W |
| 1549 | The Tile Invitational X | It's our 10th running of this coin-a-word game. | H |
| 1542 | Your (B)ad Here | Tweak an ad slogan to use it for another product | H |
| 1540 | Picture This | It's caption contest time, with eight motley pictures to choose from. | H |
| 1526 | Poke Us Till We Giggle | Write a "poke", or a joke recast as a rhyming poem | H |
| 1367 | Pick me up at work, okay? | Give a pickup line from someone in a particular profession, or from a particular person or fictional character. | H |
| 1342 | MRGRS: Mash 2 abbrevs. | Combine two acronyms or other abbreviations, whether of entities or expressions, into one big one, and describe it, offer a slogan for the new organization, etc. | H |
| 673 | Mess With Our Heads | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Washington Post or on Washingtonpost.com from July 30 through Aug. 7 and reinterpret it by adding either a "bank headline," or subtitle, or the first sentence of an article that might appear under it. | H |
| 668 | Cut From the Chase | Write an original John-Bunnell-style wrap-up to a crime story -- or one for a more minor transgression. | H |
| 593 | Take This, Job, and . . . | Come up with some entertainingly awful things that a Job's comforter might offer. A Job's comforter is someone who seems to be offering sympathy but instead just makes the person feel worse, either intentionally or unintentionally. | H |
| 518 | Say, Kids, What Time Is It? | Fill in the blanks in the following sentence: "You know it's time to ------ when ------. | H |
| 501 | Questionable Sentences | Take any sentence appearing anywhere in today's Washington Post and make it the answer to a question. | 2 |
| 462 | Cast Away | Come up with a terrible bit of miscasting in a movie or TV show, past or present, real or imagined. | H |