| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1515 | Munich-ipals -- European "sister cities | Choose any two or more towns from the 51 countries in Europe/Eurasia and come up with a joint endeavor the “sister cities” would undertake. | H |
| 1513 | You're such a card | Come up with a greeting card rhyme for an un-greeting-card occasion. | H |
| 1512 | Alphabetter | Write a 26-word sentence or other passage whose words each start with a different letter — except that the X in the X-word may appear elsewhere in the word, as long as the word has an “ex” syllable. | H |
| 1510 | Only U (or A, E, I or O) | Write a humorous univocalic poem — one that uses only one of the vowels A, E, I, O or U | H |
| 1507 | All over the map! | Choose one of the contiguous 48 U.S. states or D.C. Then write a funny slogan for that state by “traveling a route” from that state into several others. Use the first letters of the states in your route as the first letters of the words in your slogan. | I H H H |
| 1502 | It's Hi-time for Limerixicon XIX | Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any word, name or term beginning with “hi-. | H |
| 1500 | These go to 15 | Make up a word or phrase whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 15 (no blanks!) and define it. | H |
| 1484 | Two ways about it | What's something (printable) you could say in two -- or more -- of the provided situations. | H |
| 1481 | Mess with our heads | Reinterpret some actual headline (or a major part of it), from any publication, print or online. | H |
| 1480 | Oh, you don't really mean that | Define" inaccurately and humorously any of the provided words. | H |
| 1478 | It's a small, small world | Write a humorous poem, eight lines max, using only words from the provided list of 1,000 most common English words. | H |
| 1472 | Phony money -- tell us fake financial trivia | Tell us some fake trivia about money or the financial system. | H |
| 1458 | Do adjust your set: TV anagrams+ | Use all the letters of any TV show (including streamed ones), past or present, to create new show; or it can be an episode of the original. | H |
| 1437 | One-offs: A 'typo' neologism contest | You're a fat-fingered typist: Change a word, name or phrase by either adding or substituting one letter that's adjacent (in any direction) to the original one on a regular QWERTY keyboard, or by doubling the correct letter. | H |
| 1418 | Tour de Fours XVII: Just Undo It | Coin a word or multi-word term containing the letters U-N-D-O -- consecutive but in any order -- and describe it. | H |
| 1412 | Jumble bells -- anagram a song line | Rearrange all the letters in a song title, or a line (or more if you dare!) from a song. Optional: Offer a parody of the original tune (or a few lines of it) that refers to the new title. | H |
| 1346 | AZ if -- balancing acts | Think of a new word or two-word phrase that begins and ends -- either way -- with one of the provided "alphabetically balanced" pairs. | H |
| 1341 | Portmanteautapping from E to R | Coin a portmanteau word beginning with E through R, in which the words overlap by at least two letters, and describe it. | H |
| 1320 | Questionable journalism | Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in the Post or another publication, in print or online, dated Feb. 21-March 4, and pair it with a question it might answer. | H |
| 1301 | Tell us a Fib(onacci) | Write a humorous poem of 20 syllables divided among six lines like this: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. And a least two -- any two -- of the lines must rhyme. | H |
| 1298 | It's IGH time for 3-word phrases | Make up some entity that might take a three-letter abbreviation of GHI, HGI, GGG, GHH, etc., and then humorously describe it. | H |
| 1291 | Film flam -- movie anagrams | Rearrange the letters of a title of a movie or play to make a new title, then describe the new work. | H |
| 1253 | Fashion x fiction: More fake trivia | Tell us some totally bogus trivia about clothing or fashion. | H |
| 1229 | Gorey bits from A to Z | Send us one of more edgy rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. | P |
| 1086 | Playing the dozens | 1. Start with any 12-letter word, name or multi-word phrase. 2. Add one letter OR drop one letter OR substitute another letter OR switch the position of two letters to create a new term, as in the examples given. 3. Define or describe the result humorously. |
H |
| 1019 | What a turnoff | Tell us some creative things that children and families could do during Screen-Free Week. | I |
| 891 | Mirror, Mirror | Write a word-palindrome sentence, in which the first and last words are the same; the second and next-to-last, etc. | I |
| 886 | Look both ways | Give us a new term that's a palindrome and define it. | I |
| 874 | Stat Us | Write a funny Facebook status line. | I |
| 612 | Oh, and One More Thing | What was the thing that didn't make the cut on any list? | P I |
| 540 | Revisionist History, or Badenov for You? | State any news event (or old event) in the style of the Rocky-and-Bullwinkle teasers about the next show. | P |
| 491 | Hirschfeld Follies | Try to figure out which celebrities Bob Staake is trying to draw in imitation of Al Hirschfeld. | I |
| 473 | Offensive Line | Find what's offensive in any of the provided cartoons, and explain. | I |
| 336 | THE "STY"LE INVITATIONAL | Choose any word and emphasize a single part of it, as though you were saying the word out loud with "air quotes" around the key part. Then redefine the word. You cannot alter the spelling of the word. | U |
| 274 | THE DROLL OF A LIFETIME | Be the New Yorker comics editor, and explain to readers of The Washington Post why the provided jokes are charmingly witty. | I |
| 265 | A SPORK OF GENIUS | Come up with new products like the spork: combinations of two existing products that work together in some special way. Name the device and explain its function. | H |
| 196 | YOU MUST BE MAD | Come up with a contemporary Scene We'd Like to See. | P |
| 195 | THE MARTHIAN CHRONICLES | Come up with items for Martha Stewart's December-January calendar of projects. | I |
| 165 | WHEEL OF TORTURE | Complete any of the provided "Wheel of Fortune" phrases. | I |
| 158 | SO SUE US | Come up with frivolous lawsuits. | P |
| 122 | THE UNKINDEST CUTE OF ALL | Come up with a new story line for "Peanuts", some plot development or new character that will put the strip back on the road to relevance. | A |
| 107 | CLUSTERS' LAST STAND | Take an actual star cluster, redraw the lines into a different image, and give it a new name. | A |
| 89 | CHILD'S PLAY | Come up with bad ideas for new toys for the Christmas season. | I |