| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 669 | Huddled Messes | Suggest some bad advice for new arrivals to this country (legal or illegal). | H |
| 663 | Worth at Least a Dozen Words | Interpret any of the provided cartoons as you see fit in a caption. | H |
| 662 | How Low Will You Go? | Humiliate yourself for ink, and a stupid prize. | H |
| 657 | Nuts Fruit | Send in funny (but printable) images of real pieces of fruit. | H |
| 650 | King Us | Give us a scenario for a horror novel based on an everyday item. | H |
| 647 | Paste Imperfect | Change a headline or sentence that appears in the Post or on washingtonpost.com through Feb. 6 either by deleting up to 40 consecutive characters from it or by adding 40 consecutive characters from the same article or ad. | H H |
| 646 | Warped Perspectives | Tell us how two different types of people, animals, organizations, etc., would interpret any of the provided cartoons. | H |
| 639 | What's the Small Idea? | Do you have a senseless idea for improving the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans? | H H |
| 638 | The Little Bummer Boy | Come up with an idea (and title, if you like) for an original Christmas movie or TV special that provides an antidote to all the sap, and give us a brief synopsis. | 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 |
| 607 | Contest Fodder Created! | Produce absurdly parochial views of historical events. | H |
| 598 | Site Gags | Come up with an appropriate name for a cafeteria--or meeting room, or an employee lounge, or some other workplace spot--for a particular institution. | H 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. | 1 |
| 589 | Hyphen the Terrible (New Edition!) | Combine the beginning of any multi-syllabic word in this week's Invitational with the end of any other multi-syllabic word in this column (or in this week's Web supplement) to coin a new word, and then define it. | H |
| 578 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. Send us the questions. | H |
| 563 | Take Two | Take any two of the provided items and explain how they resemble or differ from each other. | H |
| 559 | Your Slogan Here | Come up with a clever slogan or sign for a business. | H |
| 550 | Spring Cleaning | Suggest creative uses for things you've already used, or never will use, or other disposable household thingies, singly or in combination. | H |
| 536 | And the Horse He Rodin On | Come up with some words we can stick in the back of The Inker. | H |
| 532 | Short Pans | Come up with a terse review (four words or fewer) of any work of art. | H |
| 500 | Ergo-Nomics | Create a sillygism--a syllogism that doesn't quite work. | H |
| 493 | A Major Offensive | Find something anywhere in today's Washington Post and complain about it with absurd oversensitivity. | W |
| 468 | Ism This Stupid? | Take any common prefix and attach it to any well-known "ism" and define the new term. | H |
| 462 | Cast Away | Come up with a terrible bit of miscasting in a movie or TV show, past or present, real or imagined. | H |