| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1077 | Time marches Swiftly | Give us a novel Tom Swifty, playing on either an adverb or a verb (e.g., "We care about the little people, the BP chairman gushed"). | H |
| 893 | Give us a hint | Write a humorously witty story in 25 words or fewer. | I |
| 860 | Ten, Anyone? | Humorously define or describe something or someone in exactly 10 words. | I |
| 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. | I |
| 665 | Your One-in-a-Million | Coin the millionth word in the English language and define it. The word must end in -ion. | I H |
| 653 | It's the Eponymy, Stupid | Coin a word or expression based on the name of a well-known person, define it, and perhaps use it in a sentence | H H |
| 602 | Take a Letter -- Again | Take a word, term or name that begins with A, B, C or D; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word. | H |
| 554 | Love the Tiny Tail Stain | Write an anagram based on a name or event that's been in the news recently. | P |
| 549 | Show Us Your Best Quantities | Come up with novel units of measure, and explain or quantify them. | H |
| 532 | Short Pans | Come up with a terse review (four words or fewer) of any work of art. | H |
| 518 | Say, Kids, What Time Is It? | Fill in the blanks in the following sentence: "You know it's time to ------ when ------. | P |
| 492 | Cheap Tricks | Come up with extreme cost-conserving measures for these difficult economic times. | I |
| 489 | Combo, First Blood | Combine two people whose names contain a common element, as in the examples above. Then describe the person, or provide a quote he or she might have uttered. | I |
| 488 | No Rest for the Query | Come up with a vexing, funny question about life. | H H |
| 483 | Obitter Fate | Give us an obit headline for some famous person, currently living or dead. | H |
| 480 | In No Uncertain Terminations | Come up with a way to stop any unwanted overture in its tracks. | 3 |