| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 448 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Mate any two of the horses qualifying for the Triple Crown races this year and propose a name for their foal. No name may exceed 18 characters, including spaces. | H |
| 396 | April Foals | Mate any two of the horses qualifying for the Triple Crown races and come up with appropriate names for their foals. Maximum 18 letters and spaces. | H |
| 391 | Spinning Out of Control | Take a headline in today's Washington Post and create a subhead that spins the story in an opposite or unexpected direction. | 4 |
| 355 | Seeing Stars | Tell us ways we can attract celebrity participation to this contest. | H |
| 353 | Patently Silly | What do these devices do? | H |
| 335 | A LOVER'S SPAT | Come up with some inept "sweet nothings"--graceless terms of endearment. | H H |
| 300 | A BRAND NEW CONTEST | Come up with celebrity-brand products. | P |
| 291 | HYPHEN THE TERRIBLE | Take any story in today's paper, find a word that breaks with a hyphen at the end of a line, and combine it with the second half of different hyphenated word in the same story. Then supply a definition for the new hybrid word. | H |
| 290 | THE WORLD THEORIES | Codify some of life's more populist theories. | H 1 |
| 261 | WHAT IF YOU GIVE IT A TRY II | Alter some crucial moment in history, and then tell us the likely outcome. | H |
| 250 | OH, GREAT | Complete the sentence "Wouldn't it be great if . . . | H |
| 244 | HYPHEN THE TERRIBLE | Coin new words, and provide a definition, by combining the first half of a hyphenated word for any story in today's Post with the second half of another hyphenated word in the same story. | 2 |
| 241 | CAN YOU BEAT THIS? | Come up with headlines describing the defeat of one pro team by another. | 1 |
| 238 | CHALK IT UP TO STUPIDITY | Propose apologies for yourself in the style of Bart Simpson writing on his blackboard. | H |
| 212 | DUMB AS THE POST | Come up with even stupider crimes than those committed by Montgomery County's "gentleman burglars. | 7 |
| 171 | ON SECOND THOUGHT | Ideas that never got off the drawing board, for good reason. | H |
| 163 | WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? | Take the list of all 1996 Triple Crown nominees, couple up any two of them, and propose an appropriate name for their hypothetical foal. The foal's name must fit in no more than 18 characters, including spaces. | 2 |
| 155 | COMPARISON SHOPPING | Explain the difference between any two of the above items. | 1 |