WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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659 | Tell Us a Fib | Compose a six-line poem with the following number of syllables per line: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. It must be about a person or topic currently in the news, and two successive lines must rhyme. | I |
656 | It's Post Time | Breed any two from a list of 100 of the more than 400 3-year-old racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown races, and name their hypothetical foal. The foal's name cannot exceed 18 characters and spaces combined. | H H H |
643 | The Post's Mortems | Give us a rhyming poem about some notable who died in 2005. | H |
632 | Live On, Sweet, Earnest Reader (Inc.) | Give us an original backronym for a company or product. A backronym is a fake etymology that often gets in a little dig at the subject. | H |
631 | Picture This | What's going on in any of these cartoons? | H H |
614 | In-Stock Characters | Pitch us an idea for a summer movie featuring two or more of the provided characters. | H H |
597 | Eccchsibits | Come up with some alternative museums and exhibits for the nation's capital. | H |
591 | Dead Letters | Write rhyming poems about notable personages who have died in the past year. | H |
504 | Life Is Snort | Write a schmaltzy last line of a "Life Is Short. | H |
497 | Ask Backward | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
487 | Eee! Rotica | Come with a passage in a novel that ineptly describes hanky-panky. | H |
484 | Manufracturing | Take any product and explain how it would be different if it were designed by a different existing company. | H H 2 |
481 | Homonymphomania | Create a new homonym of any existing word, and define. The new word must be spelled in such a way that is obviously pronounced identically to the original word. | H |
478 | Do You Mindset? | Anticipate items for the Mindset List for the freshman class of the year 2020. | H H |
477 | A Load of Bulwer | Give us the beginning of incompetently written novel. | W H |
465 | Hyphen the Terrible | Take the first half of any word or word combination in today's Post that is broken by a hyphen at the end of a line, and combine it with the second half of any other hyphenated word from the same story, and define the new word that is formed. | H |
464 | Cursive Writing | Come up with a new curse for this millennium. | H |