WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1423 | Muddled heads: Headline anagrams | Choose a headline (or part of a headline) in any print or online publication dated Feb. 11-22 and rearrange all its letters into an anagram. | H |
1417 | Dead Letters, our obit poem contest | Write a poem of no longer than eight lines (plus an optional title) about someone who died in 2020. | H |
1368 | Picture This -- cartoon captions | Supply a caption for one or more of the provided cartoons. | H |
1296 | A, we're Adorbs: New-word poems | Use one or more of these words new to M-W.com in a humorous poem of eight lines max. | H |
1265 | Parody for the course | Write a song relating to a class or course of instruction, or to school in general. | H |
1248 | C'mon, fess up! | Send us a brief "confession" -- there will be categories for true and just-kidding. | H |
1244 | Primed for product reviews | Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon. | H |
1213 | Punku | Write a haiku that incorporates a pun. | 2 |
1212 | The Tile Invitational IV | Give us a five-, six- or seven-letter word (or two words) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it. | H H |
1192 | Ask Backwards | The 15 provided phrases above are the answers. You provide the questions to as many as you’d like (up to 25 entries total). | H |
1186 | We're always happy to verse you | Write a humorous poem, of any form, about or “by” the anagram of anyone’s name. | I |
1178 | A ______ of collective nouns | Propose one or more funny new names for groups of things. | H |
1167 | So what's to liken? | Take any two items from the provided list and explain how they're similar or different, or connect them some other way. | H |
1162 | An 8-year Re-Onion | Write a fictional Onion-type headline. | H |
1158 | What have we here? | Tell us what one or more of these objects really are. | 3 |
1098 | Prime time for some Amazon reviews | Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon. | H |
1090 | Talk undirty to us | Write a humorous poem in any form (no more than eight lines) that includes one or more of the provided words; the word must make sense in the poem in its TRUE meaning. | H |
1060 | Picture this | Write a caption, or captions, for one or more of the provided cartoons. | 2 |
980 | Def jam | Supply a humorous definition for any of the provided Loser-penned neologisms. | H |
979 | The madding crowd | Suggest funny, original ways to tick people off. | H |