WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	INK Types
1584	Seeds of Change	Make an anagram of a name-brand product.	H H H
1583	A Thousand Words	Write a funny poem about the artwork of your choice.	H 3
1582	You're Workin' on a Chain, Gang	A classic connection game.	W H H H H 4
1581	SOTU-Speak	Use words from Biden's State of the Union speech to write some lines for another oration.	H H 4
1580	Hi, Anxiety!	Tell us some funny ways to stress yourself out.	M H H
1577	Why the #$%#$% Not?	The Washington Post is looking for some bold ideas -- Let's show it some!	H
1576	Praise the Lurid!	Give us clickbait headlines for mundane stories.	H
1575	The Ughscars and the Phewlitzers	Give us an idea for a bad book or movie.	H H
1574	Oh, Grandpa, Stop!	Turn a 'dad joke' into a less-tame 'grandpa joke'	T H H H 2
1573	The Invitational Week 55: Tour de Fours — Be STUD-ly	Give us a new word or phrase containing 'DUST' in any order of letters.	H
1572	S Is for Smartass	Presenting the Devil's Alphabet Soup	L H H
1571	Dead Letters, our annual obit contest	Write a funny verse about someone who died in 2023.	H 3
1570	The Invitational, Week 52: Replaying Around -- The 2023 retrospective, Part II	Enter or reenter our Week 26-50.	H H
1569	Look Back in Inker -- Our 2023 retrospective, Part 1	Enter or reenter our Week 1-25 contests.	L H H H H
1568	Nextra! Nextra!	Tell us the funny news events from 2024	T H H H
1567	Picture This	A caption contest	T H
1566	Well, the Good News Is ...	Put a positive spin on a bad-news headline	H
1565	Oh, For Namesakes!	Compare two people who share part of a name.	L H H H
1564	"Air" "Quotes"	A new forefinger contest	H H
1562	Rhyme and Rhyme Again	Write a funny "monorhyme", a poem whose lines all rhyme on the same sound.	W H H
1561	Let It Be a Lesson to Us	Tell us some things to be learned from Costco, the bathroom, TV shows, etc.	T
1560	The 'Hole Story	Write us a funny 'Am I The Asshole' question	H
1559	As the Word Turns	'Discover' new words by snaking through this random grid	M H H
1558	It's Parody Time	Send up the news with those songs and videos you do so well	T M 4
1557	Tailgating On the Highway	Pair a Dylan line with your own rhyming one	W L H
1556	Cross Us Up	Mirror a phrase, more or less	M H H H H 4
1555	Do You Have to Spell It Out for Us?	Give us "backronyms"	H H
1553	Doody and Muldoon	Write a Muldoon, a four-line poem that features at least two body parts and a place name, and at least one rhyme.	T H
1552	A Mirthday Party	Link two people who share a birthday	T H H
1551	Ask Backwards XLII	We give the answers. You give the questions.	H
1550	Holy Moly, It's Limerixicon XX	Write a limerick featuring a word beginning "ho-".	W H H H 3
1549	The Tile Invitational X	It's our 10th running of this coin-a-word game.	H
1548	Poll-ish Jokes	Come up with a ridiculous reader poll.	T M
1547	Alphabettering	Write a funny sentence containing all 26 letters.	H H
1546	Put It in Bee-verse	Write a funny poem using a spelling bee word	M H H H 2
1545	Their Base Behavior	Tell humorously how some business or organization could alter its product or message to appeal to Trump’s cult.	H H
1544	Same Difference	Tell us humorously how items on the list are alike, different, or otherwise linked.	H H 4
1543	F Things Up	Neologisms by adding Fs or changing letters to F	W M H H H 4
1542	Your (B)ad Here	Tweak an ad slogan to use it for another product	H H
1541	Wrong enough for ya?	Fake facts about the weather	M
1539	Get Real, Reel	Name a scene in a movie, a TV show, or literature, and tell us how it might be revised (perhaps less satisfyingly but far more realistically)	T
1538	Rhymes Against Humanity	Write a four-line poem about people in the news, using either of two poetic forms	L H H
1537	A Crooning Achievement	Write a lyric for a politician to sing.	T H H
1536	Colt Following	Now that we have the winner and punners-up of our venerable foal-name contest, it's time for 'grandfoals'.	M H H H H
1535	The Poops Diorama	Make some funny art with toilet paper and send us a photo.	M H
1534	Pun for the Roses	Our renowned horse name 'breeding' contest returns!	H H 4
1532	We Bee Back With Neologisms	Make up words using letter sets from the NYT Spelling Bee game	H
1531	The Worst New Contest Ever	Describe something that would be worse than a second Trump presidency	H H H
1530	Mess With Our Heads	Reinterpret any headline by adding a 'bank head'.	T H H
1529	Hello, Dall-E!	Our new contest partners you and a machine.	H
1528	It's Our Birthday. Party Like It's 1993.	As the Invite turns 30, enter your choice of contests from our year of infancy	H H
1527	Film Flim-Flam	Use all the letters in a movie title to make a new movie	H H H H H 2
1526	Poke Us Till We Giggle	Write a "poke", or a joke recast as a rhyming poem	T H H H H
1524	Picture This	A caption contest	H
1523	Where in Hell ...?	Name a "circle" for some "evil", plus a suitable punishment	H
1522	Questionable Journalism	Find a sentence published in the next week and tell us what question it could answer	H H H 4
1521	Send Us the Bill	Our "Joint Legislation" contest	H
1520	Nextra! Nextra!	Read All About it. Predict the big news events of 2023	H H
1519	Dead Letters	The post-Post humor contest barely skips a beat as the Czar and Empress begin with the annual obit poems.	H H H
1518	The final Post edition	Some all-time favorite entries	H H
1515	Munich-ipals -- European "sister cities	Choose any two or more towns from the 51 countries in Europe/Eurasia and come up with a joint endeavor the “sister cities” would undertake.	H H 3
1513	You're such a card	Come up with a greeting card rhyme for an un-greeting-card occasion.	H
1512	Alphabetter	Write a 26-word sentence or other passage whose words each start with a different letter — except that the X in the X-word may appear elsewhere in the word, as long as the word has an “ex” syllable.	W H
1511	The inside word--our 'air quote' contest	Highlight part of a word, name or short phrase in “air quotes” to give the word a new meaning or description.	H H H H H
1510	Only U (or A, E, I or O)	Write a humorous univocalic poem — one that uses only one of the vowels A, E, I, O or U	H H
1509	MASH MASH: combine 2 one-word movies	Combine two single-word movie titles to make a new movie and describe it.	H
1508	Tour de Fours XIX —Laughtime Achievement	Coin a word or phrase containing the letters E-L-D-N — consecutively but in any order — and describe it.	H H H H H 4
1507	All over the map!	Choose one of the contiguous 48 U.S. states or D.C. Then write a funny slogan for that state by “traveling a route” from that state into several others. Use the first letters of the states in your route as the first letters of the words in your slogan.	H
1505	Munici-pals	Choose any two or more real U.S. or Canadian towns — they need to show up on a Google search — and come up with a joint endeavor they would undertake.	H H H H 2
1504	All set — anagram all 100 Scrabble tiles	Write a Scrabblegram — an anagram of all 100 tiles in an English-language Scrabble set (your choice for the two blanks). Any punctuation is fine.	W T L H
1503	Sing of your supper--parodies about food	Write a humorous song on the subject of food.	T
1502	It's Hi-time for Limerixicon XIX	Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any word, name or term beginning with “hi-.	H H 2
1500	These go to 15	Make up a word or phrase whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 15 (no blanks!) and define it.	W H H
1499	Picture This, a cartoon caption contest	Write a caption, either descriptive or in dialogue, for any of the provided cartoons.	T
1498	V for Verses -- misuse a word in a poem	Write a short (eight lines or fewer), humorous poem that uses one or more words in other than their actual meanings.	H H
1497	The if-word	Give us a "what if" scenario and its humorous result	T
1496	Same Difference -- compare two items on this list	Tell us humorously how any two (or more) items on the provided list are alike or different, or linked in some other way.	H H H
1494	Put it in bee-verse	Write a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer that includes at least one of the words used in Round 4 or later of this year's bee; OR: write a joke in Q&A form that uses at least one of the words.	W H H H
1493	Frankly speaking with feghoots	Tell a feghoot -- a mini-story (a ridiculous one is fine) that ends in a groaner pun on a familiar expression, title, line from a song, etc.	M H
1492	Set us right -- conservative humor	Send us conservative-leaning humor in a Q&A joke format or a knock-knock joke.	T M H H
1491	The add biz	Choose any word, name or phrase beginning with A throough E, then add any single letter of the alphabet to it -- one or more times -- and define the result or show how it would be used.	H H
1490	It's parody time -- sing the news	Write a satiric song about anything in the news these days.	M H H
1489	Let's movie things around	Rearrange the words of a movie title to create a new movie, then describe it	H H
1488	Let's recycle!	Come up with humorous uses for ANY product or combination of products listed at RepurposeMaterials.com, including but no restricted to the provided list.	M
1487	Colt following -- now it's the grandfoals	Breed" any of the "foal" names provided in today's results (including the intro) and give the "grandfoal" a name that reflects both names.	H H
1486	No can do: Signs of incompetence	Give us a clue that someone was incompetent in a given field.	H H
1485	Switchcraft -- transpose two letters in a word	Switch the positions of two letters within a word, name, title or phrase, then describe the result.	H H H H
1484	Two ways about it	What's something (printable) you could say in two -- or more -- of the provided situations.	T
1483	Pun for the Roses -- our famous foal-'breeding' contest	Breed" any two of the provided names and name the "foal". As in actual thoroughbred racing, a name may not exceed 18 characters including spaces.	H
1482	The Tile Invitational IX	Rearrange the letters of any of the letter sets provided to create a new term, then define or describe; you may use all seven letters, but also just six or five.	M H
1481	Mess with our heads	Reinterpret some actual headline (or a major part of it), from any publication, print or online.	T
1479	It's a WordleVite! Write a prhase of 5-letter words	Write a phrase or sentence consisting of two to six five-letter words or names, then define it or say something funny about it. AND the Wordle part: once a letter is in the right, "green" place -- the same place as it is in the final word (like the P in "pouty" in the example provided) -- your subsequent words must keep those letters in their right places.	L H H H
1478	It's a small, small world	Write a humorous poem, eight lines max, using only words from the provided list of 1,000 most common English words.	T L H H 2
1476	Matchless humor -- show us some Googlenopes	Find us a Googlenope -- a phrase in quotation marks that generates the message "It looks like there aren't many matches for your search" -- or a Googleyup, a phrase that surprisingly does have hits.	M H
1475	Hail to the Commanders!	Write a song (set to any familiar tune) or shouted cheer for the Washington Commanders. OR: Write for any other D.C. institution, e.g., the Metro, the Senate, the National Zoo, The Washington Post.	T
1474	Hyphen the Terrible	Combine one side of a hyphenated word or phrase with one side of another such term -- either side can be the end or the beginning -- to create a new term. AND! Both halves of the term must come from the same issue of a newspaper (The Post or another one) or published the same day on its website, Feb. 3 through 14.	P H
1471	Tour de Fours XVIII: B-I-D-E with us	Coin a word or phrase containing the letters B-I-D-E -- consecutively but in any order, and describe it.	H H
1470	Your add here -- a prefix feast	Add a "prefix" -- by which we mean at least one syllable of any kind (but not multiple words) -- to the beginning of any word in well-known phrase, name, book title, etc., and describe the result.	L I H H H H H H
1469	Post Mortems 2021, our obit poems	Write a poem of no longer than eight lines (plus an optional title) about someone who died in 2021.	H H
1468	The Year in Redo, Part 2	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1440 through 1464.	M H
1466	Be invitationally correct	Give us a funny "correction" that a newspaper or magazine might offer.	T H
1465	Put your '22 cents in for our annual pre-timeline	Name some humorous news event to happen in 2022.	T
1464	Picture this -- a caption contest	Write a caption, either descriptive or in dialogue, for any of the provided cartoons.	T
1463	Fork over some (new) Spoonerisms	Write and original Q-A joke featuring a spoonerism.	T M H H
1462	Time for a new career?	Tell what would happen if any two people switched professions or other roles.	T
1461	It's the eponymy, stupid	Create an eponym -- a word based on the name of a well-known person -- define it, and perhaps use it in a humorous sentence.	H H H H H
1460	These new words are on fleek	From the provided list, write a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer.	T H
1459	And we quote: 'It's Parody Time'	Write humorous first-person lyrics for a song "by" some particular person.	M
1458	Do adjust your set: TV anagrams+	Use all the letters of any TV show (including streamed ones), past or present, to create new show; or it can be an episode of the original.	H
1457	What is Ask Backwards XL?	You are on "Jeopardy!"; various answers are provided. You provide the questions.	P M H H
1456	The hunting of the snark	Ask an insulting rhetorical question in the form (or a variation) of "Is that your _______ or _______?	M
1455	Good idea! Or not.	Cite a "good idea' and, with a small change of wording, a "bad idea".	H
1454	Punku 3 -- haiku with a pun	Create a haiku containing a pun or similar wordplay.	H H H H 2
1453	Haven't read it -- mis-subtitle a book	Choose any book title listed on Amazon and misinterpret it by adding a subtitle.	T L
1452	As the Word Turns	Discover" a word or multiword term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions, up, down, back, forth, diagonally -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition.	M L H H
1451	Could have said it worse ourselves	Give us a humorously bad "first draft" of a famous line from history, literature or entertainment.	M
1450	Putting the 'anoid' in humanoid	Humorously describe some aspect of our current society as a space alien and/or future anthropologist might interpret it.	M
1449	Let's have a get-together	Begin with a real name; append to it a word, name or expression so that they overlap; and finally define or "quote" the resulting phrase or name.	H H H
1448	Hear, hear -- it's Limerixicon XVIII	Supply a humerous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any word, name or term beginning with "he-".	T H
1447	Give it to us straight	Take any sentence from an article or ad in any publication (print or online) dated July 29 through Aug. 9, 2021, and intepret it in “plain English".	H
1446	Clue us in -- and we spill the beans	Write novel clues for as many as 25 answers in the provided grid, across or down, first substituting your own letters for any covered ones.	M H H
1445	Put it in bee-verse -- poems with spelling words	Write a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer that includes at least one of the words used in Round 8 or later of this year's bee; OR: write a joke in Q&A form that uses at least one of the words.	W
1444	It's a whole new all-game	Slightly change the name of a sport, sports event or similar pastime to create a new one, and briefly describe it.	T H
1443	The letters of the laws	Propose some law -- it doesn't have to be a serious issue -- and give it a name and an acronym,	H
1442	Same difference, or missing links	Choose any two (or more) items from the utterly random list above and say how they're different, alike or otherwise linked.	H
1441	\'Rick rolling: songs as limericks	Sum up or otherwise reflect a well-known song as a limerick.	T H H
1440	It's parody time!	Write a satiric song about anything in the news these days.	M H
1439	Vowel Movement: The Musical	Choose a song title; remove all the vowels; then add back as many vowels as you like to create a new title, and describe the song. You might also provide a line or two of lyrics.	T H H
1438	Nothing but the untruth: Fake trivia about the law	Give us some bogus trivia about the law -- lawyers, courts, judges, police, odd laws, terminology, what have you.	H
1437	One-offs: A 'typo' neologism contest	You're a fat-fingered typist: Change a word, name or phrase by either adding or substituting one letter that's adjacent (in any direction) to the original one on a regular QWERTY keyboard, or by doubling the correct letter.	W H H H H
1436	Haven't seen it: Fun with movie titles	Misinterpret a movie title in a supposed plot description.	L
1434	Go ahead, mate my bay: Grandfoals	Breed" any two of this week's inking foal names and name the "grandfoal.	H H H H
1433	Questionable Journalism	Choose any sentence (not a headline!) in an article or ad in The Washington Post or another publication dated April 22 through May 3, and write a question it might humorously answer.	M H
1432	Turn tale and run with it	Offer a new angle on a folk tale, nursery rhyme, children's song, etc., with a short poem, mini-story (under 100 words) or song parody.	H H
1431	The On-Our-Way-Back Machine	Tell us how (in some funny way) things will be different as we emerge from the pandemic.	M
1430	Back to racing speed with the 'foals'	Breed" any two of the provided names of the 100 horses nominated for the 2021 Triple Crown races and name the "foal" to humorously play off both parents' names.	H
1429	Forsoothsayers	Quote a line or so from any Shakespeare work, and exemplify it with a contemporary quote, real or imagined.	H
1428	The Tile Invitational VIII	Create a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or phrase) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it.	T
1427	Rocky of ages, or Badenov for you?	State any historical event -- right up to 2021 -- in the provided "A, or B" format.	T M H H
1426	Mess with our (or others') heads	Reinterpret an actual headline (or a major part of it) by adding a bank head, or subtitle.	M H 2
1425	Picture this -- a caption contest	Write a caption, either descriptive or in dialogue, for any of the provided cartoons.	T H
1424	We Bee back -- a neologism contest	From any of the 30 provided Spelling Bee letter sets, coin a new term or phrase and describe it humorously. You must use the first letter in the set (anywhere in the word) plus any or all of the others, as often as you like.	H
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 H H
1422	The Collaboratory	Think of a book, movie or song title. Then pair its creator, star, singer, etc., with an unrelated "collaborator" to produce a wordplay on the title.	H
1421	Alternaugural Address '21	Write a humorous passage -- a "quote", an observation, a joke, a dialogue, a poem, anything -- using only words that appear in Biden's inaugural address.	T L H
1419	Send us the bill -- 'joint legislation'	Combine two or more names from the provided list of the new members of Congress to “co-sponsor” a bill based on their combined last names, and state its purpose.	H
1418	Tour de Fours XVII: Just Undo It	Coin a word or multi-word term containing the letters U-N-D-O -- consecutive but in any order -- and describe it.	T 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.	T H H
1416	The Year in Redo, Part 2	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1388 through 1412.	T H H
1415	The Year in Redo, Part 1	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1360 through 1387, except for Weeks 1361-1363.	M H H H
1414	Divining comedy: 2021 predictions	Name some humorous news event to happen in 2021.	M H
1413	We're finna give you some new words	Write a poem of eight lines or fewer featuring one or more of the provided terms. The terms must be used as they're defined in the new m-w.com listing.	T H H H
1412	Jumble bells -- anagram a song line	Rearrange all the letters in a song title, or a line (or more if you dare!) from a song. Optional: Offer a parody of the original tune (or a few lines of it) that refers to the new title.	H
1410	Legends of the fall -- more fictoids	Tell us some bogus trivia about autumn, or things that happen (or have happened) in autumn.	H
1409	Skip a groove: Drop a letter or more from a song title	Drop one or more letters from somewhere in the middle of a song title and describe the new song, and/or quote some lyrics from it.	H H
1408	Re-Organization	Slightly change the name of a nonprofit organization and describe it.	H
1406	The news could be verse	Write a poem based on a recent news article, in which the lines' first letters spell out the title or subject of the poem.	T 3
1405	Okay, once more around the track	Breed" any two of the provided foal names that got ink in Week 1400 and name the offspring to reflect both parents' names.	M H H
1404	Ask Backwards XXXIX	The answers are provided. You supply the questions.	T H H
1403	Who was that masked man?	Current a short listing for a current or past TV show that has a coronavirus story line, or one reflecting some other issue in the news right now.	M
1402	The fourteeners--a neologism contest	Make up a word whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 14 (no blanks!), and define it.	H H H H H
1401	How hai? A joke-haiku contest	Write a joke (roughly) in the "It's so xxx" genre as a haiku.	H H
1400	Back on track with our classic 'foal' contest	Breed" any two of the provided names of the 100 horses nominated for the 2020 Triple Crown races and name the "foal" to humorously reflect the parents' names.	T H 2
1399	The lie-zy days of summer	Tell us some bogus trivia about the summer or things that happen or have happened in the summer.	T M
1398	This is the year that is	Describe the year 2020 in a novel, colorful metaphor or simile. You may also offer an original graphic.	T M
1396	Hail Limerixicon XVII: Write a limerick featuring a 'ha-' word	Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "ha-".	H H H 4
1395	Add nauseam: A plus-one contest	Add a "plus one" to some familiar numerical grouping, true or fictional	T 2
1394	Two movies, one line	Cite a real or coined line, or give a description, that could work for two different movies, plays or TV shows.	H H
1393	Second chance (acned conches?) for anagrams	Describe any of the provided anagram businesses, or offer its slogan.	H
1392	Picture this -- caption these cartoons	Write a caption, either descriptive or in dialogue, for any of the provided Bob Staake cartoons.	T H
1391	No-covid zone -- a neologism contest	Coin a new word or phrase that lacks C, O, V, I and D and describe it.	H H
1390	'Same difference' for a new time	Explain how any two of the items in the provided list are similar, different or otherwise linked.	H
1388	Turning around a business	Create a business, product, organization or similar entity that contains a word, name or phrase and its anagram, and describe it.	M
1387	Movie clips -- drop letters from the middle of a title	Delete one or more letters (they must be consecutive) from the middle of a movie title, and describe the resulting new movie.	H H H
1383	Questionable Journalism	Choose any sentence (not a headline) in an article or ad in The Washington Post or another publication dated May 7 through May 18, and write a question it might humorously answer.	T H H H
1382	For us, it's still Post Time	Breed" any two names from the provided list of 100 of the 145 previous Kentucky Derby winners, from 1875 to 2019, and name the foal to humorously reflect the parents' names.	M 3
1381	Let's be equinoxious with fictoids about spring	Tell us some untrue trivia about springtime or things that happen or happened in the spring.	H
1380	Both sides now	Delete one or more letters (in a row) from a word or brief phrase to find another word, and define it.	H H H
1379	Your wish: A pun -- a star	Tell a joke, in your choice of form, whose punchline is a pun on a song title or lyric.	W T H H H
1378	It's (emergency) Parody Time	Write a song about life in the Age of Corona, set to a familiar tune (or even one of your own, if you perform it on video).	H
1376	Get thee to a funnery	Add a character (or more) to a Shakespeare play and supply some resulting dialogue.	T H
1373	Prime time for some Amazon reviews	Send us a humorous "review" for any of the provided Amazon-listed items.	T
1371	The Tile Invitational VII	Create a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or phrase) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it.	T
1370	What's in a name?	Write something about a well-known person, real or fictional, using only the letters in that person's name.	T M H H 4
1369	Shoot us some oops	Tell us a concise original joke that revolves around a typo or misheard word.	H
1368	Picture This -- cartoon captions	Supply a caption for one or more of the provided cartoons.	H
1367	Pick me up at work, okay?	Give a pickup line from someone in a particular profession, or from a particular person or fictional character.	T H H
1365	Dead Letters, our obit poem contest	Write a poem of eight lines or fewer (plus an optional title) about someone who died in 2019.	W H H
1364	Clue us in	Supply clever, funny clues for as many as 25 of the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid.	H H
1363	The Year in Redo, Part 2	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1334 through Week 1359.	M H
1362	The Year in Redo, Part 1	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1307 through 1333, except for Weeks 1309-1311.	H H H H H H
1360	The lyin' in winter: Seasonal fictoids	Give us some untrue trivia about winter or things that occur in winter.	T
1359	Back up in the air (quotes)	Write a sentence or two and highlight an "air quote" that spans two or more words (and two sentences if you like).	T H H H H 2
1357	It's parody time!	Write a satirical song about anything in the news right now, set to a familiar tune.	H
1356	Ask Backwards 38	Sixteen "answers" are provided. Tell us the questions.	H
1355	The inside word	Highlight part of a word, name or short phrase in "air quotes" to give the word a new meaning or description.	M 4
1354	As the Word turns 5: Taking our vowels	Discover" a word or multiword term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition.	H
1351	What concept will you be for Halloween?	Give us a creative, clever idea for a timely Halloween costume (for one or more people) or an idea for a party or other activity. You may even send us a photo of an actual new costume you've created this year.	M
1350	Here's inspo for new-word poems	Write a poem of eight lines or fewer featuring one or more of these recent additions to m-w.com.	H
1349	Revise and extend these remarks	Go to congress.gov/congressional-record and click on the PDF for any day's Congressional Record. Choose any sentence (or substantial part of one) and write a question that it could answer.	T H
1348	Same difference	Explain humorously how any two or more of the provided items are alike, different or otherwise connected.	H H
1347	Reologisms	Write a clever, funny definition for any of the provided Loser-concocted words and phrases, and/or show they'd be used.	M H
1346	AZ if -- balancing acts	Think of a new word or two-word phrase that begins and ends -- either way -- with one of the provided "alphabetically balanced" pairs.	M H H H
1344	Well, that's just great -- It’s Limerixicon XVI	Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "gr-".	H H 2
1342	MRGRS: Mash 2 abbrevs.	Combine two acronyms or other abbreviations, whether of entities or expressions, into one big one, and describe it, offer a slogan for the new organization, etc.	H 2
1341	Portmanteautapping from E to R	Coin a portmanteau word beginning with E through R, in which the words overlap by at least two letters, and describe it.	M H H H
1340	Not-ables -- slightly alter a famous name	Slightly alter the name (make sure the original is obvious) of a famous personage -- past or present, real or fictional -- and describe the resulting nonpersonage, or offer a quote from that person, or both.	H H H
1339	Songs for a modern error	Write humorous lyrics about some modern woe, set to a familiar tune.	H H
1338	Picture This -- cartoon captions	Supply a caption for one or more of the provided cartoons.	T
1337	Lidder me this: anagram riddles	Write a Q&A joke (or an A followed by a Q, if you're into "Jeopardy!") in which the punchline contains an anagram or one or more relevant words or names.	T H H H H H
1335	Put it in bee-verse! Or . . .	Write a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer that includes at least one of the provided words, used in Round 9 or later of this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee; OR: write a joke in Q&A form that uses at least one of the words.	M H 4
1334	Mull 'er over: A search for collision	Combine any two words, names, abbreviations, etc., from anywhere in the redacted Mueller report, in a two-word or hyphenated phrase and define it.	H H 2
1333	Check your (homo)phones	Invent a homophone--a word that sounds the same as an existing word but is spelled differently--and define it.	H H
1332	We'll call them Spellimericks	Write a humorous limerick that's an acrostic: a pertinent five-letter word or name spelled out by the first letter of each line.	H
1331	Paste Imperfect	Choose a headline or sentence from The Post or another publication, print or online, dated May 9-20, 2019. Then change that headline or other text by: A. Deleting up to 40 consecutive characters from it (put brackets around the deleted text); B. Adding up to 40 consecutive characters from the same article or ad (write the additions in capital letters); or C. Both A and B, as long as the added text goes at the end of your headline or sentence.	T M
1330	Spinoff x Time Is Now = Grandfoals Week!	Breed" any two of the 65 foal names that got ink this week, and name the offspring to reflect both parents' names.	H H H H
1329	Shakespeare + Thee: Tailgaters	Select any line from a work by Shakespeare (poetry or prose) and pair it with your own line to create a humorous rhyming couplet.	T H H H 3
1327	Mess with our (or anyone's) heads	Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline (or a big part of a headline) by writing a bank head, or subtitle.	T H H
1326	Foaling around	Breed" any two names from the provided list of 100 horses and name the foal to reflect both names.	T H H
1325	Stand up and jeer	Give us some original standup jokes that would have been good at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner.	M
1323	Selected shortened subjects	Delete one or more letters from the beginning or end (or both) of a movie title and describe the resulting movie.	H H
1321	Pumping Prime: Amazon reviews	Send us a humorous "review" (like the provided samples from our earlier contests) for any of the provided items.	H
1320	Questionable journalism	Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in the Post or another publication, in print or online, dated Feb. 21-March 4, and pair it with a question it might answer.	M
1319	The Tile Invitational VI	Create a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or phrase) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it.	H H H H
1318	Love the tiny tail stain!	Create an anagram -- a phrase or sentence with the letters rearranged -- of any text (except merely someone's name), of any length.	M H H H H
1317	Punku 2: Haiku with puns	Create a haiku containing a pun or similar wordplay.	H 3
1316	Lies, damn lies, with statistics	Tell us some bogus trivia using "statistics" or some bogus quantitative meaure.	T
1315	Clue us in -- our reverse crossword	Supply clever, funny clues for as many as 25 of the 74 words and multi-word terms in the provided grid.	M H
1313	Dead Letters -- our obit poem contest	Write a poem of no longer than eight lines about someone who died in 2018.	M H 3
1312	Neologisms in TOUR de Fours XV	Coin a word or multi-word term that contains the letter block T-O-U-R and describe it. The letters may be in any order.	T
1311	Nextra! Nextra! The year in preview	Name some humorous event to happen in 2019.	M
1310	The Year in Redo, Part 2	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1282 through Week 1306.	H H
1307	One-for-one for all	Replace one letter in an existing word, name or multi-word phrase with one different letter (in the same place in the word) and define or describe the result.	H H H
1305	Hits and Googles	Find us either a Googlenope -- a phrase in quotation marks that generates no previous hits -- or a Googleyup, a phrase that surprisingly does have hits.	M
1303	Neologisms to di- for	Replace a digraph in an existing word or phrase with another digraph to make a new term.	T H H H H H
1302	Ask Backwards 37	Fifteen "answers" are provided. Tell us the questions. Do one or more, up to a total of 25 A&Q's.	H
1301	Tell us a Fib(onacci)	Write a humorous poem of 20 syllables divided among six lines like this: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. And a least two -- any two -- of the lines must rhyme.	T M L
1299	OK, hivemind! A contest with new Scrabble words	Choose any two of the words in the provided list as the beginning and end of a humorous word chain of 6 to 14 words or phrases.	H H H H 4
1297	A different type o' headline contest	Change a letter in an article or ad in the Post or another publication dated Sept. 13-24 by adding or subtracting one letter; substituting a letter; transposing two letters; or changing spacing or punctuation; and then add a "bank head.	H H H H 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 H
1295	Really, now? A matter of degree.	Tell us an indication to some problem, followed by an even more dire sign.	M H
1294	As the word turns	“Discover” a word or multiword term that consists of adjacent letters — in any direction or several directions — in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition.	M H H
1293	Constitutional unconvention	Humorously translate or explain some part of the U.S. Constitution.	H
1292	Golly gosh, it's Limerixicon XV	Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term, beginning with "gl-" through "go-".	T H H 3
1291	Film flam -- movie anagrams	Rearrange the letters of a title of a movie or play to make a new title, then describe the new work.	H H H H
1290	Bobbing for Witte words	Come up with both an object/situation and a neologism for it.	H H 2
1289	Fake gnus: bogus animal trivia	Tell us a fictoid -- a humorously false "fact" -- about the nonhuman animal kingdom.	T M
1288	Your results may vary	Write a funny disclaimer or warning for some product or service.	H
1287	It's parody time: Oldies for newsies	Write some song lyrics about something in the news these days, set to a familiar tune.	2
1286	Mind your P's and B's (and more)	Replace one or more P's in a word, name, or multi-word term with a B or with another letter and define or describe the results.	T
1285	That is so wrong!	Supply a trivia question along with both the correct answer and a cleverly "wrong" guess.	H H
1284	Same difference	Explain how any two of the items in the provided list are similar, different or otherwise linked.	T H
1283	Put it in Bee-verse	Write a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer that includes one of the provided words, all from the 2018 National Spelling Bee.	M H 3
1281	We only have (googly) eyes for you	Send us a photo of something that you have made funny by pasting googly eyes on it; funny titles and captions are optional.	H
1280	A la'ugh' a minute with 'air quotes'	Highlight part of a word, name or short phrase in "air quotes" to give it a new meaning or description.	H H H
1278	Colt following: The 'grandfoals'	Breed" any two of the 68 foal names that got ink this week, and name the offspring to reflect both parents' names, in the style of today's inking entries.	M H H H
1277	Come into Beeing with neologisms	From any of the 15 provided Spelling Bee letter sets, coin a new term of one or two words and define it humorously. You may also supply an especially clever or funny definition of a real term.	H
1276	What 4? A limerick contest	Use a limerick using one of the provided lines as Line 5.	T H H
1275	That is the question	Choose a line from Shakespeare (or a significant part of a line) and pair it with a question that the line could humorously answer.	H
1274	Heading for a foal -- our horse name 'breeding' contest	Your job is to "breed" any two names of the 360 horses nominated for this year's Triple Crown races and name the "foal" to reflect both names.	T H
1273	Restocking the Cabinet	Explain why a particular person -- or thing -- ought to fill a Cabinet post or other U.S. government position.	M H
1271	Yodel Doyle's praises with a D-O-Y-L-E neologism	Coin a new word or phrase that contains the letters D, O, Y, L and E.	H H H
1270	The Style Invitational turns 5 x 5	Write a witty poem, on any subject, in any of these forms: A. Five lines of five syllables each B. Five lines of five words each C. Five lines of iambic pentameter	T M 2
1269	Mess with our (or other) heads	Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in The Post (print or online) or another publication and dated March 1-12 by writing a bank head.	T H H
1268	Playing pinocchio	Tell us some humorously bogus trivia about the news media or the publishing or broadcasting industries.	M
1267	Jingle bungle	Suggest an ill-advised spokesman (dead or alive, or fictional), along with a humorously noooo slogan or jingle.	H H
1266	The Tile Invitational V	Create a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or phrase) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it.	T H H H H
1265	Parody for the course	Write a song relating to a class or course of instruction, or to school in general.	H 3
1264	A cry for Yelp: 'Review' any place	Write a humorous review, positive or negative, of anyplace (real of fictional) one might visit.	T T 4
1263	Playing the short game	Using the three-letter Olympic national abbreviations and/or the abbreviation for any college, tell what would happen if one abbreviated team played another.	H
1262	Clue us in -- a backward crossword	Supply one or more creative clues for the provided filled-in crossword grid -- as many as 25 clues in all.	H H H
1261	Post mortems -- our annual obit poem contest	Write a humorous poem of no longer than eight lines about someone who died in 2017.	H
1259	Beat the banned with euphemisms	Come up with creative euphemisms for the provided words, or for other words that might offend someone or other.	H
1257	The year in redo, Part 1	Enter (or re-enter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1203 through Week 1229, except for Weeks 1205 and 1206.	M H H H H
1256	Picture this -- a caption contest	Provide a funny caption for any of the provided cartoons.	T
1255	Tour de Fours XIV: SANT is coming	Coin a word or multi-word term that contains the letter-block S-A-N-T; the letters may be in any order, but there may be no other letters between them.	H
1254	Inkorporation--a change-one-letter contest	Change the name of a present or past business, store or agency (not just a product) by adding one letter, deleting one letter, transposing two letters or substituting one letter for another.	T H
1253	Fashion x fiction: More fake trivia	Tell us some totally bogus trivia about clothing or fashion.	T H H
1252	It's a med, med, med, med world	Invent a clever name for a new medical product, and specify the condition it would treat.	T
1251	Thanking outside the box	Tell us something to be thankful for.	H H
1250	Poems of the year(s)	Write a humorous poem incorporating three or more terms from a particular year or era listed on Time Traveler.	M
1249	Ask Backwards 36	Choose any of the 15 provided items and follow it with a question that it could humorously answer.	T H
1248	C'mon, fess up!	Send us a brief "confession" -- there will be categories for true and just-kidding.	H
1247	Script tease	Offer a quote from a script whose title you've given a different plot.	T M
1246	Questionable journalism	Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in The Post or another publication, in print or online, dated Sept. 21-Oct. 2, and pair it with a question it might answer.	H H
1245	Call us reprehensible . . .	Complain in a humorously missing-the-point way about something that has appeared in The Washington Post (in print or online) recently, or in another publication.	M H
1244	Primed for product reviews	Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon.	T
1242	Generation Yux	Give us a "then/now" joke.	I H H H H H H
1241	Less taste, more fill-in	Give us a novel clue for any word or phrase in which the remaining letters in the provided crossword puzzle fit, across or down.	M H H
1240	We GIVE you Limerixicon XIV	Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "gh-" or "gi-".	H H 2
1239	MASH 3	Combine two movie titles and describe the result.	H H
1238	D-E-F Comedy Jam (or E-D-F, etc.)	Coin a threeword phrase (you may add an insignificant word or two) whose words begin with D, E and F — in any order — and describe it.	L H H H H
1237	Our alliteracy campaign	Rewrite an existing headline from any publication, print or online — about something in the news from July 20 to 31, by using alliteration.	H
1236	Portmanteaux faux	Explain--inaccurately but amusingly--how a real word is a combination of two or more words, with an illustrative sentence, as in the provided examples, or some other funny way.	W H H
1235	The Sound of Science	Write humorous lyrics on the subject of science or technology, set to a well-known tune.	T H H H
1233	Not	The Loser Community gets a week off (actually two) from writing contest entries and will have to find something else to do during staff meetings, sermons, romantic breakups, etc.	H H
1232	Picture this -- a caption contest	Write a caption for one or more of the provided cartoons.	M
1231	TankaWanka 3: Haiku Plus Tu	Write a TankaWanka about something that's been in the news lately. The poem must consist of five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables in that order. And at least two of the lines must rhyme.	H
1229	Gorey bits from A to Z	Send us one of more edgy rhyming alphabet-primer couplets.	T H H H
1228	That movie is SO about you	Name someone who was the "secret inspiration" for a certain movie.	H
1227	Celebrate ortho-diversity!	Name and describe a new life form -- and no letter in the term may be used twice.	H H
1226	Colt following: The 'grandfoals'	Breed" any two of the 61 foal names that got ink this week, and name the offspring to reflect both parents names.	W H H H H
1225	The Ideas of March	Suggest a march for some group or field, along with one or more slogans. (You might also, or instead, comment on the march with some pertinent wordplay.)	H H
1223	Post again out to mislead public!	Write a humorously sensationalistic, misleading headline on an otherwise mundane article or ad published in The Post or elsewhere from April 13 to April 24.	T H H
1222	Foaling around	Breed" any two of the provided racehorses nominated for this year's Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont; and name the foal to reflect both of them.	H H 4
1221	Who's kidding whom?	Take two people from history, past or present, and tell what their child would be like	H H 3
1220	O pedantry, O pedantry	Give us some humorous pedantry.	M
1219	Cast your Bred upon us	Write a Lik the Bred verse about someone in the news lately.	T
1218	Mess with our -- or anyone else's -- heads	Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in the Post (print or online or another publication dated March 9-20) by writing a bankhead, or subtitle.	H H H
1217	Mergers you wrote: Combine two businesses with puns	Give a clever name for a combination of two or more businesses.	T H H
1216	As the word turns	Create a word or multi-word term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition.	H H H
1215	A so-so contest (How so-so is it?)	Write a humorous exaggeration in the form "x is so y that . . .	H H 3
1214	The alternaugural address	Write a humorous passage — a “quote,” an observation, a joke, a dialogue, a poem, anything — using only words that appear in Trump’s inaugural address.	M H
1213	Punku	Write a haiku that incorporates a pun.	T H H H
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
1211	The best tweets in history	Write a stupidly disparaging tweet (140 characters or fewer, including spaces) about some laudable figure of past or present, true or fictional.	H H
1209	Invented facts: A fictoid contest	Tell us a humorously untrue account of how a product or invention came to be, or got its name.	T M
1207	Clue us in -- a reverse crossword	Supply clever, funny clues to up to 25 of the 72 words and multi-word terms in the provided grid.	H H H H
1206	Do-over the do-over -- enter any of the year's contests	Enter (or re-enter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1149 to 1202, except for Week 1152, last year's do-over.	H H
1205	Could we just have a do-over? Yes, we could.	Enter (or re-enter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1149 to 1201, except for Week 1152, last year's do-over.	H H H H
1204	Well, at least . . .	Note some good news for the coming year to comfort -- or "comfort" -- those who are depressed about the change of presidential administration.	H
1203	You've got the powers	Tell us what you would do if you had one or more of the six magical powers provided.	H
1202	Don't be afraid of the dark	Write lyrics to a song that, in some way, express hope.	T
1201	Tour de Fours XIII: What's there to NOVE?	Coin a word or multi-word term that contains the letter block N-O-V-E.	H H H H
1200	The definitive dozen	Supply a word, name or multi-word term along with a wry definition or description; together, the term and description must total exactly 12 words.	H H H H
1198	Give it to us straight	Take any sentence from an article or ad in any publication dated Oct. 20 to Oct. 31 — or from an online article dated within that period — and translate it into “plain English".	M
1197	Picture This -- It's a Bob Staake caption contest	Write a caption for any of the cartoons provided.	M
1196	Hyphen the Terrible	Combine either half of a hyphenated word or compound term with either half of another such term to create a new hyphenated term, and describe the result humorously.	H H
1195	Don't change a letter!	Alter a movie title only by changing word spacing, changing capitalization, and adding or deleting punctuation marks, accents, etc., then describe the result.	W T M
1194	Nyetymologies: fake word origins	Provide a humorously untrue explanation for the derivation of a word.	T H H
1193	Poedtry	Write a Poed, which consists of four lines: The first line contains six one-syllable words. The second line contains three two-syllable words. The third line contains two three-syllable words. The fourth line contains one six-syllable word (or a name totaling six syllables. And at least two of the lines must rhyme.	T L 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 H 4
1191	Mess with our heads	Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in The Post (print or online) and dated Sept. 1-12 by writing a bank head, or subtitle	T H
1190	You're workin' on a chain, gang	Create a chain of no more than 15 proper nouns — names of people (real or fictional), products, places, etc. — including one title of a work — in which each name relates somehow to the previous one.	W H H H H H H H
1187	Just drop it, okay?	Drop the last letter from an existing word, phrase or name and define the result.	H 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.	T M H
1184	Plan C -- a third candidate?	Explain why some novel person (or thing) should be president; you could also suggest a president-veep ticket.	H
1183	C'mon, be honest with us	Write something in roughly the form "If X were more honest, (then) Y.	T H H
1182	Where in the wor(l)d?	(1) On What3words.com, find one or more humorously appropriate (or ironic) three-word codes at a particular place; or 2) find a three-word code, tell us where it is, and tell us what ought to be there.	T H H
1181	Put it in Bee-verse	Write a short, humorous poem using one of the 36 provided words, all from the 2016 National Spelling Bee.	W M H
1180	Strip search!	Find a line of text from any comic strip or panel that appears on the Post's comics pages or on washingtonpost.com/comics, dated anywhere between June 16 and June 27, and either (a) supply a question that the original line could answer, or (b) follow it with your own line of dialogue or reply.	T H H
1179	Blasted alphabetical contests . . .	Coin a three-word phrase whose words begin with A, B and C -- in any order -- and describe it.	P H H H
1178	A ______ of collective nouns	Propose one or more funny new names for groups of things.	T H H H
1177	The ballad box	Write a song related to this year's elections, set to a familiar tune.	H
1176	Let 'er RIP: Write an obit line	Write a humorous line or two for someone's obituary -- either for a particular person (dead or not) or for a fictional or generic one.	H H H
1175	Good luck with 13	Make up a word whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 13, and define it.	M H H H
1174	Colt following -- It's time for the grandfoals	Breed" any two of the 57 foal names that got ink this week and name the offspring to reflect both parents' names.	H
1173	Tinker with the recipe	Slightly change the name of a food or brand of food (or something else in the food industry) and describe it, or write a slogan, jingle, etc.	H 4
1172	Pieces of 'Pie'	Write a short passage -- an observation, a joke, a dialogue, a poem, anything -- using only words that appear in the song "American Pie".	H H
1171	What's my (next) line?	Take a line from any song and pair it with your own second line to make a humorous rhyming couplet; the second line should match the rhythm of the first, rather than the second line of the song itself.	T M H H
1170	Derby or not Derby	Breed" any two of the provided racehorses nominated for this year's Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont; and name the foal to reflect both names.	H
1169	Be caustic by acrostic	Review or otherwise describe a movie, book, play or TV show (or Internet equivalent) with words whose first letters spell out the name of the work.	M H H H
1168	Asterisky business	Tell us an original joke whose punchline can't be understood without knowledge -- not necessarily scientific -- that most of us don't have (which you'll supply with a concise explanation).	M H 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 H
1166	Questionable journalism	Take a sentence (or most of a sentence) that appears in text (not a headline) in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com dated March 10-21 and make up a question that the sentence could answer	M H
1165	B all you can B	Change a word, phrase or name by adding one or more B's, and/or by replacing one or more letters with B's, and define your new term.	M H H H H
1163	Put it in reverse	Spell a word, name or phrase backward and define the result in a way that relates to the original.	H H H H
1162	An 8-year Re-Onion	Write a fictional Onion-type headline.	H
1161	Give us four Pinocchios	Tell us some false "facts" about politicians, present or past.	T L
1160	A remeaning task	Redefine an existing word or two-word term beginning with P through Z.	T M I H
1159	It's all in the game	Come up with a funny/ridiculous board-type game and describe it.	H 2
1157	Clue us in -- a backward crossword	Supply clever, funny clues to up to 25 of the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid.	H
1156	Dead letters	Write a humorous poem of no longer than eight lines about someone who died in 2015.	H H H
1155	Vowel movement	Choose a title of a book, movie, play or TV show; drop all the vowels (including Y when it's used as a vowel); then add your choice of vowels -- as many as you like -- to create a new work; and describe it.	W H H H
1154	Tabby Road -- songs for cats	Write a song for -- or about -- cats or other animals, set to a familiar tune.	T
1153	Be three-paired	Choose two or more entities represented by a single three-letter combination from IAA through LZZ, found at the provided link, and say how they are alike or different or have some connection.	W H
1152	Oops? You do it again.	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 1098 through Week 1148, except for Week 1101, last year's do-over.	T H H H
1150	A deviant character	Change the name of person or animal -- real or fictional -- by adding or subtracting one letter; substituting one letter for another; or switching the positions of two nearby letters, and describing the results.	T H H 3
1149	Gestures of depreciation	Suggest ways to celebrate National Love Your Lawyer Day -- or a made-up "holiday" celebrating some other profession.	T H
1148	It's TankaWanka II	Write a TankaWanka about something that's been in the news lately. The poem must consist of five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables in that order. And it must include at least one rhyme.	H H
1147	It's E-Z find-a-word -- yours	Create a word or multi-word term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition.	H
1145	A DICEy situation	Coin a word or multi-word term that contains the letter block D-I-C-E.	H H H 3
1144	Someone else's business	Name a real brand, along with something else it would be a better name for.	H H H
1143	Ask Backwards	Provided are 15 answers, separated by asterisks. You supply the questions.	H H H H 2
1142	Two-faced tweets	Combine two well-known names into a Twitter handle, and write a tweet (no more than 140 characters and spaces) that that portmanteau person might write.	H 4
1141	Mess with our heads	Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in the Post (print or online) Sept. 17-28 by writing a bankhead, or subtitle.	H
1140	You're giving us a bad name	Cite a REAL brand name, past or present, note its original use, and then say what sort of product, organization, etc., that name would be bad for.	H
1139	A little sixty-four play	Fashion an entry by selecting one element from each of the provided menu groups. Make sure you indicate the combination you chose (e.g., 2-C-iii).	H
1138	Show us your touché	Offer an elegantly snide (and original) insult of anyone living or dead.	H
1137	Be a published author!	Give us a spicy title for a boring book, real or imagined.	H
1136	Gaah! It's Limerixicon XII	Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "ga-".	M H H
1134	The 'Sty'le Invitational Red'ux'	Put quotation marks around part of a word, name or phrase and define the result.	T 3
1133	Are 'hew ready? A contest for clerihews	A clerihew is a humorous four-line rhyming poem about a person whose name is mentioned in the first line; in fact, the name must be at the end of that line (or constitute the whole line) so that it has to rhyme with something. The rhyme structure (and we don't want "lazy" rhymes) is AABB: the first line rhymes with the second, the third with the fourth.	T H H H H
1132	You and what army? Military fictoids	Give us some comically bogus trivia about the military, past or present, ours or theirs.	H 3
1131	One man's trash	Suggest a humorous way to reuse one or more of the items listed above -- or anything else advertised on RepurposedMaterialsinc.com.	H
1130	Yux Redux: Play on a foreign phrase	Make a word play on a foreign phrase or term (or English phrase using foreign words) and describe it.	M I H H H
1129	Right in the pampootie	Write a humorous short poem (eight lines or fewer) incorporating one of the 50 provided words.	W T H H
1127	From the creators of . . .	Think up a spinoff of a real TV series, past or present, and furnish a description or bit of dialogue.	T H
1124	Heed! Indeed: Advice verse	Write one of the provided reminders as a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer.	H
1123	The Tile Invitational III	Give us a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or two words) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided seven-letter sets.	T H
1122	Colt Following: 'Grandfoals'	Breed" any two of the 65 foal names that got ink this week and name the offspring to reflect the parents' names.	H H 4
1121	The an(n)als of civilization	Briefly describe some "bad day in history" -- you may be creative in what you classify as such -- and sum it up with a humorous heading.	W H H
1119	We want hue so bad	Invent a name for a color and describe it.	H H
1118	Breed 'em and weep	Breed any two of the provided 100 racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown events and name the foal the reflect both names.	H
1117	You got another sing coming	Write a song about a topic or person lately in the news, set to a familiar tune.	T L
1116	Punning in place	Create a new term using only the letters in a place name. You don't have to use all the letters, but you can't use a letter more often than it appears in the word.	M H H
1115	Our type o' headline	Change a headline in an article or ad in the Washington Post and then add a "bank head" or subtitle.	T H H 4
1114	Awww together now	Write us a humorous headline -- from the past, present, or future -- that puts an optimistic perspective on some otherwise not-so-promising news.	H
1113	Our occasional parodies	Write a song celebrating someone's birthday or other personal occasion (rather than, say, a holiday), set to a familiar tune.	L H
1112	Some SHARP words	Coin a word or short term that includes all the letters S, H, A, R, and P.	I H H H H
1111	When you riff upon a store	Use a wordplay on a song title as a name or slogan for a real or imagined business.	T H H H H H H
1110	The mama of all humor	Write a [Someone’s] Mama joke for some well-known figure, past or present, real or fictional.	H H
1109	Fictoids of Columbia	Tell us some humorously untrue “facts” about Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area.	T H H H
1108	Hearts of dorkness	Write a humorous Valentine's Day sentiment to someone (or to some organization), either real or fictional -- either from you or from someone else you name. Plus an all-new option: We'll also be willing to run at least one really funny, clever, well-executed graphic.	H H
1107	Send us the bill	Combine two or more names from the list of members of Congress on this page to "cosponsor" a bill based on their combined last names, and state its purpose.	H H
1106	Show your resolve	Suggest a New Year's resolution that someone might make 100 or more years in the future.	T M H
1105	A lit obit of fun	Write a humorous poem of no longer than eight lines about someone who died in 2014.	W H
1104	A pair of threes	Choose two or three entities represented by a single three-letter combination beginning with E- through H- — see the links at bit.ly/abbrevs-e-h — and say how they are alike or different.	M H H H H H H 3
1103	Themes good enough for us	Suggest an existing song to be used as the theme for a TV series or program for comic effect.	T
1102	Let's get Sirius	Suggest a new radio channel and describe it.	H H
1100	Pun and ink -- the feghoot	Contrive an elaborate scenario that ends in a novel groaner pun on a familiar expression, title, etc.	M L H H 2
1099	Questionable journalism	Take a sentence (or most of a sentence) that appears in an article in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com dated Nov. 20 through Dec. 1 (in print, any article from those days' papers), and make up a question that the sentence could answer.	T H H
1098	Prime time for some Amazon reviews	Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon.	H
1097	Futz your sign	Select a line from one of the horoscopes appearing anytime from Nov. 6 through Nov. 17 in the Washington Post's daily Style or on washingtonpost.com and "clarify" it with a translation or extra "information".	H 3
1096	Picture this	Write a humorous caption for any of the provided Bob Staake cartoons.	M
1095	TankaWanka!	Write a TankaWanka about something that's been in the news lately. The poem must consist of five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables in that order. And it must include at least one rhyme.	H H H H
1094	TAXI's the fare for Tour de Fours XI	Coin a word or hyphenated term that contains the letter block T-A-X-I; the letters may be in any order, but there may be no other letters between them.	H H 2
1092	Are we having funds yet?	Suggest a humorous fundraising "challenge" for any organization.	H
1091	Good idea! or not.	Come up with a good idea and, through a small change in wording, a bad idea.	H 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 2
1089	It's E-Z Find-a-Word -- your own!	Create a word or multi-word term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition.	H
1088	Ask backwards with our answers, your questions	Supply the questions to as many of the 16 supplied answers as you like.	H H H 3
1086	Playing the dozens	1. Start with any 12-letter word, name or multi-word phrase. 2. Add one letter OR drop one letter OR substitute another letter OR switch the position of two letters to create a new term, as in the examples given. 3. Define or describe the result humorously.	I H
1085	Eww-venirs: Ideas for gift shops	Suggest a humorous--but NOT horribly tasteless--tchotchke, T-shirt, etc., from a real or imagined gift shop at a particular tourist site.	H
1084	Limerixicon XI: Fi-, fo-, go!	Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "Fl-" through "fo-".	H H 2
1082	Band on the pun	Alter the name of a music group or performer slightly -- not necessarily by just one letter, but enough so it's obvious what the original is -- and describe it in some way.	T H H H
1081	It's the stupidity, stupid	Write us stupid questions that will make us laugh.	M
1080	McGonagall with the windiness	Memorialize a modern "tragedy" in a poem burdened with hilariously overwrought verse; lame, forced rhymes; and painfully uneven meter. Get the badness across in one verse of no more than eight lines.	M
1079	Little piddle riddle	Ask a question and answer it with a rhyme.	H H
1078	Hyphen the Terrible	Combine one side of any hyphenated word or compound term with one side of another word to make a new hyphenated term, and define it humorously. Both halves must appear in the same issue of The Post or another print newspaper, or in writing published the same day on washingtonpost.com or another online publication.	H H H H 4
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 H
1076	Dactyly fractyly	Send us some double dactyls that conform to Gene Weingarten's rules.	H
1074	Let's go parody-hopping	Describe a stage or movie musical in a parody of a song from a different musical.	H
1073	Bank shots: Mess with (y)our heads	Quote a headline appearing in the Washington Post, washington.com or another publication, print or headline, dated May 22 to June 1, and supply a "bank" headline that either misinterprets it, as in the examples above, or comments wryly on it.	H H
1072	The Tile Invitational	Come up with a 5-, 6-, or 7-letter term by scrambling any of the provided seven-letter ScrabbleGram sets, and define it.	T H H
1071	A pair of threes	Choose two or three entities represented by a single three-letter combination at bit.ly/3letterabs and say how they are alike or different.	H H H H H
1070	Colt following -- our grandfoals contest	Breed" any two of the foal names that got ink this week, and name the offspring to reflect the parents' names.	H 3
1069	It's a small, small world	Write a humorous poem of no more than eight lines -- it doesn't have to rhyme -- using only the top 1,000 words on Wiktionary.org's list of the most common among 20 million words found in movie and TV scripts.	L H
1068	An iffy proposition	Suggest some humorous action that you would take if you were in someone's position, more or less in the form "If I were _____ my first act would be _____.	H
1067	A(t)tribute to your wit	Alter a well-known quote slightly and attribute it to someone else.	T M H H H
1066	It's mating season	Breed" any two from the provided list of 100 of the 3-year-old racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown and name the foal to reflect both names.	H H
1065	The ands have it	Slightly alter ANY well-known phrase in the form "A-and-B" -- it doesn't have to be Latinate/Anglo-Saxon -- and define it.	H H
1063	Same difference	Take any two items from the provided list and explain how they're similar or different.	T
1062	Scanning the headlines	Write a rhyming poem about something currently in the news.	H H 2
1061	Less taste, more fill-in	Give us a novel clue for any word or phrase in which the remaining letters in the provided crossword puzzle fit, across or down.	M
1060	Picture this	Write a caption, or captions, for one or more of the provided cartoons.	T
1059	With parens like these . . .	Add some words in parentheses to a well-known song title to make it funnier in some way.	H
1058	Eastwood Ho	Create a good-bad-ugly progression.	H
1056	Weather or nuts	Coin a term relating to the weather, climate, etc. -- either literal or figurative -- and define it.	H
1055	Oh, K!	This week, to commemorate both Kevin Dopart and his 1K ink blots: Change a word, phrase or name by adding one or more K's, and define your new term.	H
1054	Dead letters	Write a short, humorous poem commemorating someone (or maybe even something) who died in 2013.	H
1052	Clue us in	Come up with up to 25 creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms that appear in the provided grid.	H H
1051	Love the tiny tail stain!	Create an anagram -- a text with the letters rearranged -- of any text (except merely someone's name), of any length, referring to something or someone in the news.	L H H 2
1050	Just redo it	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 1000 through Week 1046.	H H
1048	Ask Backwards	You supply the questions to as many of the provided answers as you like.	H H H
1047	Bank shots	Quote a headline appearing in The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com or another publication, print or online, dated Nov. 14 to Nov. 25, and supply a humorous "bank" headline that either misinterprets it or comments wryly on it.	H H
1045	Songs for the asking	Take a sentence, phrase or title from a song and provide a funny question it might answer.	I H
1044	Play it safe	Come up with a comically safety-conscious rule for the workplace or elsewhere.	T
1043	Rechanneling celebrity	Describe a TV reality show featuring a celebrity pursuing some unlikely endeavor.	H
1042	Tour de Fours X: Go SANE	Create a new word or two-word term containing the letter block S-A-N-E -- in any order, but consecutively, and define it.	W H
1041	What have you got to lose?	Answer a question, real or rhetorical, that appears in a song.	H
1040	IRS my case	Schedule A: Suggest a novel way for the government to determine taxes. Schedule B: Suggest a deduction that you'd like to take, or that some real or fictional person past or present might like to take. Schedule C: Suggest a cause you'd rather check off $3 for.	M H H
1039	Shookespeare	Combine any of the words in Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy, in any order, to create a humorous sentence or longer passage.	T H
1038	It's like this, see	Answer a simple question with a ridiculously argued answer citing various connections and parallels.	W T M H H
1036	Just for liffs	Use a real place name, from anywhere in the world, as a new term.	H H
1035	The Empy 500	Explain what news Bob Staake is trying to tell in any of the provided drawings.	4
1034	What's to like?	Supply an original joke of the form "I like my [your choice] the way I like my [something else of your choice]: [some clever, funny parallel].	T
1033	LimeriXicon	Supply a humorous limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "fa-".	H H
1032	Hid stuff	Explain the symbolism "obviously" evident in any well-known site, artwork, etc., in 75 words or fewer.	T
1031	The 'Sty'le Invitational	Choose any word, name, or short term; emphasize a key, suddenly pertinent part of it with quotation marks; then redefine the word.	H H
1030	The cinquain feeling	Write a clever cinquain. The five-line form is straightforward: first line, two syllables; second line, four syllables; third line, six; fourth line, eight; fifth line, two.	T H H 2
1029	Ditty Harry	Write a descriptive theme song for a well-known movie, set to a well-known tune.	H
1027	Built for two	Give humorous related names for any pair of features in a given building, organization, etc.	T H
1025	In so many words	Create an original backronym for a name or other term, especially one that's been in the news lately.	T M H H H 2
1024	Gorey thoughts	Send us some edgy rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. The pairs are AB, CD, EF, GH, IJ, KL, MN, OP, QR, ST, UV, WX, and YZ.	H
1023	Hai there, Martians!	Write one or more humorous haiku that will greet the Martians or share a little nugget of what life is like on Earth.	4
1022	What's the diff?	Explain how any two of the provided items are alike or different.	T
1021	'Gram theft	Come up with a term by scrambling any of the letters sets in the provided list, and define it.	T H
1020	Colt following	Breed any two of this week's winning foals and name the grandfoal.	H H
1019	What a turnoff	Tell us some creative things that children and families could do during Screen-Free Week.	L
1018	Reologisms	Write a clever, funny definition for any of the Loser-concocted neologisms from Week 1014 as well as from Week 1000 that deserve better definitions than their creators offered at the time.	H 2
1016	Foaling around	Breed any two of the horses nominated for this year's Triple Crown races and give the foal a name humorously reflecting the names of the parents.	H H H
1015	Faux re mi	Give us some humorously false trivia about music or musicians.	I 4
1014	Join now	Combine the beginning and end, or the beginnings and ends, of any two words in single Washington Post story or ad published March 21 to April 1 into a new word or two-word phrase, and define the result.	H H H H
1013	Har monikers	Write a riddle that uses a pun of a person's name in the answer.	H H H
1012	The news at 5	Write a limerick about a recent news event.	T H 4
1011	Top these!	Try your hand at any of the contests mentioned in this look back.	H H H H H H H
1010	Picture this	Write a caption for any of the five provided cartoons.	T M
1009	What's in a name?	Write something about some person, real or fictional, using only the letters in the person's name.	H H 3
1007	Clue us in	Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid.	H H H H H H
1004	Dead letters	Write a humorous poem about anyone who died in 2012.	L H H
1002	Wring out the OED	Make up a false definition for any of the listed OED words.	H
1001	Make us ROFL	Give us a funny, original acronym.	H H
1000	We now have 4 digits; you now have 7 letters	Choose any word, name or two-word term beginning anywhere from T through Z; then add one letter, drop one letter, substitute one letter for another, or transpose two adjacent letters, and define the result.	M H
999	Drectrospective	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 946 through Week 995, except for Week 948.	M H H H
997	Unworthy causes	Name a dubious charity and describe its mission.	H H 3
996	A Life-Time opportunity	Combine two magazines or journals and describe the result, supply a marketing pitch, or suggest a story or two that it might publish.	T H H
993	Versus, verses	Write a short "rap battle" between any two characters, real or fictional.	M
991	Tour de Fours IX	Create a new word or two-word term containing the letter block V, O, T, and E and define it.	H H
990	Indecent relations	Pair two people, real or fictional, who have the same last name; say how they're alike or different, or something they might do (even in fantasy), as a pair.	H H
988	A faster break	Suggest ways to make sports and other leisure activities more time-efficient or exciting.	T
987	Bank shots	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 6 through Sept. 17 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle.	H
986	Hear here!	Give us a sentence or short dialogue that would be a lot funnier if a word in it were mistaken for a homophone of that word.	H
984	Another brilliant contest	Write something whose words begin with consecutive letters of the alphabet.	H 3
983	Limerixicon IX	Supply a humorous limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters "eq-" through "ez-".	H H 3
982	The parody line	Set your own, humorous words to the tune of a well-known song--except that you must preserve one of the original lines.	H H H H
980	Def jam	Supply a humorous definition for any of the provided Loser-penned neologisms.	H
978	A reason to rhyme the news	Write a short verse about something that's been in the news recently.	H
977	Lost in Translation 2.0	Translate a line of text from English into another language using Google Translate; then copy that result and translate it back into English. You may also make intermediate steps into one or more other languages.	M H H H
976	Join now!	Combine the beginning and end of any two words or names in this week's Style Invitational or Style Conversational columns to make a new term, and define it.	T H H H
975	Gone mything	Debunk a "Sixth Myth" about one of more of the recent "5 Myths" topics provided.	H
974	Eat our dust!	Write a limerick humorously describing a book, play, movie, or TV show.	W H H H
973	A real triple crown	The horses in this week's list either produced no inking "foals" in Week 965, or ran in the Kentucky Derby but weren't on the initial list. "Breed" any two and name the foal.	H H
972	Trends and neighbors	Choose any two items on the provided list and explain how they are alike or different.	H
970	Couple it	Take a line from any well-known poem and pair it with your own second line to make a humorous couplet.	H H 3
969	Colt following	Breed any two "foals" in today's results, and name the grandfoal.	H H 2
967	Overlap dance II	Create a phrase that overlaps two terms, each of two words or more, and describe the result.	T H H
966	Inkremental change	Start with any word or name, and create a series of words that change by one letter at a time, until you come up with a related word or name.	T I H 3
965	Foaling around	Breed any two of the horses in this year's Triple Crown races and name their foal.	H H H
964	The Grossery Bag?	Suggest a design and/or slogan to go on the side of the ardently desired Style Invitational Loser Bag.	H
963	The overlap dance	Send us a Before & After "person" whose name combines two people's names, real or fictional (okay, you can use animals' names, too), and describe the person in a funny way.	H H
962	Questionable journalism	Take any sentence (or a major part of it) that appears in the Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com anytime from now through March 19 and supply a question it could answer.	H
961	The end of our rhops	Write a funny passage or headline whose words all have the same number of letters.	W H H H
959	Out of network	Move a current or former TV program (or type of programming) to a different network and explain what would change.	H
958	All's Weller	Write a "wellerism," a sentence that starts with a quote, often a short proverb, and goes on to include some sort of wordplay on something in the quote.	T H
955	Twits' twist	Create a phrase by combining a word or phrase with an anagram of that word or phrase, and define or describe it.	H H H 2
953	Clue us in	Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms in the crossword puzzle that's already run in The Post.	H
952	Dead Letters	Write a humorous poem about someone who died in 2011.	H H
950	Of all the nerve!	Give us a humorous example of hypothetical chutzpah.	H
948	Look back in Inker	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 891 through 945 (except for Week 896, which was the same contest for the previous year).	T M H H
947	Tour de Fours VIII: Neologisms	Come up with a new word or two-word term that includes the letter block N-O-E-L, in any order but with no other letters between them, and define it.	H H 2
946	Another round of Bierce	Write a clever definition of a word, name or multi-word term.	H H H H
945	Laugh-baked ideas	Cleverly depict a person, event or phenomenon of the 21st century — real history as well as scenes from movies, books, videos, etc. — using edible materials, and send us a photo of your creation.	T
943	Ask backward XXIX	You are on "Jeopardy!" You supply the questions for as many of the provided answers as you like.	H
942	Singular ideas	Give us an idea for a contest for which there's likely only one good entry.	T H
941	They don't say!	Give us a quote that a particular person, present or past, real or fictional, sooo wouldn't have said.	T
940	Our type o' headline	Change a headline by one letter, or switch two letters, or change spacing or punctuation, in a headline (or most of a headline) appearing on an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Oct. 7 through Oct. 17, and elaborate on it in a "bank" headline (subhead).	T H H H H
938	Free and Lear	Write a limerick using the first two lines of any of Edward Lear's 115 limericks plus your own remaining three lines.	T H H H H
936	Hoho contendere	Slightly alter a well-known foreign-language term and define it.	T H
935	The 400 blows	Write a humorous poem--choose your form--about the Virginia earthquake, Hurricane Irene or another well-known natural event.	T H
934	Same difference	Explain how any two items in the provided list are similar or different.	H H 2
932	We'll call them your-mama jokes	Tell us an original "your mama" joke.	H H
931	Limerixicon 8	Supply a humorous limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters ea- through -el.	W T H H H H
928	Play feature	Use the title of a movie as the answer to a riddle or other question.	H
926	Outrageous fortunes	Come up with a fortune cookie line that you'd like to see.	T H
925	A remeaning task	Redefine a word in the dictionary beginning with I through O.	H H H H H
924	Doomed to repeat it	Create "Unreal Facts" about history.	H
922	A Banner Week	Write entirely new, humorous lyrics to the tune of “The Star-Spangled Banner”; they can be on any subject.	H H
921	Give Us Willies	Write an original Little Willie poem, perhaps reflecting our current era. This is a venerable four-line genre in which Master W. does some nasty thing and doesn't tend to learn to be a Good Boy by poem's end.	L H
920	Sarchiasm	Write an original chiasmus, in which the elements of a phrase are inverted for comedic effect.	H H H H H H H H H 4
919	Good Luck With 13	Alter a 13-letter word, phrase or name by one letter (add a letter, drop a letter, switch two letters somewhere in the word, or substitute one letter for another) and describe the result.	H
918	Colt Following	Breed any two "foals" in today's results, or one foal with one of the real horse names used in today's entries--and name the "grandfoal." The name may not exceed 18 characters, including spaces, and your entry shouldn't remotely duplicate any of today's results.	H H 2
917	Wryku	Write a haiku--a sentiment that can be broken into three lines with exactly five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third--on any subject that's been in the news in the last couple of weeks.	M H
916	Bank shots	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from April 22 through May 2 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle.	H
915	Picture this	Write a caption for any of the cartoons pictured here.	M
914	Foaling around	Breed any two of 100 of the almost 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races, and name the foal.	M H H
913	Bring up the rear	Move the last letter of an existing word or name to the front of the word, and define the new term.	H
912	Pair-a-phrase	Lift a word that appears inside a longer word; pair it with the original word to create a phrase; and define it.	H 3
910	Your ad here	Slightly alter an advertising slogan so that someone else could use it.	H H
909	Reprizing	Suggest humorous uses for one or more of the items above, alone or in combination.	M
908	Recast away	Fire an actor or actress from a movie or TV show, past or present, and offer a replacement for the role.	T M H
907	Naming rite	Come up with a creative, somehow fitting sponsor for some public facility or part of one.	T H H
906	Your mug here	Give us a new design for the Loser Mug.	H H
904	We move on back	Move the first letter in a word or name to the end of that word and define the resulting word.	H H H
903	Bill us now	Combine the names of two or more members of Congress as co-sponsors of a bill.	H
901	Dead Letters	Write a humorous poem about someone who died in 2010.	H H H 2
900	Dear us!	Submit a "Dear Blank" letter to us instead.	W
899	Clue us in	Send us funny, clever clues for any of the words already in this grid.	H H
896	Other people's business	Describe what might happen if any of the above institutions (a) were run by an institution of your choice or (b) ran an institution of your choice.	H 3
895	Picture this	Supply a caption for any of these cartoons.	H 4
894	Look Back in Inker	Enter any Style Invitational from Week 841 through Week 890 (except for Week 844).	H H
893	Give us a hint	Write a humorously witty story in 25 words or fewer.	H
892	Get a move on	Change the location of something for humorous effect. Provide an explanation if you wish.	H H 2
891	Mirror, Mirror	Write a word-palindrome sentence, in which the first and last words are the same; the second and next-to-last, etc.	H H H
890	Double-teaming	Combine the names of any two pro sports teams -- even from different sports -- and describe the result.	M
889	Tour de Fours VII	Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order -- the letters P, O, L and E.	W L H H H H H H H
888	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 H 3
887	Plus-Fours	Write a limerick whose third or fourth line is one of those listed above.	H H H H H
886	Look both ways	Give us a new term that's a palindrome and define it.	T H H H
885	Mess with our heads	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 10 through Sept. 20 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head.	H H H H
882	Limerixicon VII	Supply a humorous limerick prominently featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters dr-.	H H H H H H H 2
881	What's in a name?	Take the name of a person or institution. Find within it a hidden message.	H H H H H
880	Our greatest hit	Start with a real word or multi-word term or name that begins with Q, R or S; add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter with another, or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word.	T H H H
877	Quipped from the headlines	Write a rhyming couplet about some matter in the news.	H
876	Oilies but goodies	Write lyrics somehow related to the oil spill, set to an existing tune.	H H H H
875	Fail Us	Give us a funny Learn From My Fail-type lesson, 30 words or fewer, true or not, in your own words or attributed to a famous personage.	H
874	Stat Us	Write a funny Facebook status line.	H
873	Back to Square 1A	Replace the shaded letters in this grid with your own letters to come up with a different word or phrase -- either an existing word or one you make up -- and define it humorously.	H H H
872	Har Monikers	Combine the first parts of each word in a famous person's or character's name -- in order -- and define it or use it in a sentence that somehow refers to its source.	H
871	Remarquees	Change a movie title by one letter (or number, if the title includes a number) and describe the new film.	H H
870	Let's play Nopardy	Describe any of the above phrases in the form of a question.	M H 3
869	Clue us in	Send us funny, clever clues for any of the words already in this grid.	H
867	Back in the saddle	Breed any two of the foals in today's results -- OR one foal with one of the actual horses used in today's entries, and name the grandfoal.	H H 3
866	Natalie Portmanteau	Begin with a real name; append to it a word, name or expression so that they overlap; and finally define (humorously, of course) the resulting phrase.	T H H H
864	Oonerspisms	Spoonerize a single word or a name by transposing different part of the word (more than two adjacent letters), and define the resultant new term.	H H H H H
863	It's Post time	Breed any two of 100 of the almost 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races, and name the foal.	H H H
860	Ten, Anyone?	Humorously define or describe something or someone in exactly 10 words.	H H H
858	Same OED	Make up a false definition for any of the words listed below.	H
857	All FED Up	Create a brand-new word or phrase that contains a block of three successive letters in the alphabet -- but the series must go backward through the alphabet.	H
856	Titled Puerility	Here are some untitled book covers. For any of them, tell us a title and synopsis of a book that will never be published.	T H
855	The news could be verse	Sum up an article (or even an ad!) in any Washington Post print or online edition from Feb. 6 through Feb. 15 in verse.	T M H
853	It's easy as DEF	Create a brand-new word or phrase that contains a block of three successive letters in the alphabet; the series must go forward in the alphabet, not backward.	H H
852	Small, Let's get	Write a rhopalic sentence (or fanciful newspaper headline) in which each successive word is one letter shorter.	H H 4
851	Going to the shrink	Downsize the title of a book, movie or play to make it smaller or less momentous and describe it.	M H
850	Dead letters	Write a humorous poem about someone who died in 2009.	H H H 4
849	Homonymphomania	Create a new homonym (or homophone) for any existing word and define it.	H H
848	Up and addin'	Compose a humorous rhopalic sentence (or multiple sentences) in which each word is one letter longer than the previous word.	W H H H H
847	Questionable journalism	Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from Dec. 11 through Dec. 21 and come up with a question it might answer.	M H H H H
845	Reologisms	Write a description for any of 50 genuine Loser-created neologisms.	H H H H H
844	Healthy choice	Enter any Style Invitational from Week 790 through Week 840, except for Week 793 and Week 798.	M H H H 2
843	Prefrains	Provide a sentence or two of lead-in to the first line of a well-known book, poem, or song.	H H H
842	Ask backwards	Here are your 12 possible answers. Tell us your joke in the form of a question, please.	H
841	Food for naught	Alter the name of a food or dish slightly and describe the result.	M H
840	Frittering away the neurons	Give us some more colorfully useful phrases; they don't have to be in the X'ing-the-Y form.	H H
839	Overlap Dance	Overlap two words that share two or more consecutive letters -- anywhere in the word, not just at the beginning or end -- into a single longer word, and define it. AND your portmanteau word must begin with a letter from A through D.	H H
838	Picture This	Provide a caption for any of these pictures.	H
835	Tour de Fours VI	Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order -- the letters T, H, R, and E.	H H
834	Fractured Compounds	Combine two full words within any single article appearing in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com into a hyphenated compound word, and define or otherwise describe the result.	M H H H H H H 2
833	Our Greatest Hit	Start with a real word or multi-word term or name that begins with M, N, O, or P; add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word.	H H H
832	Clue Us In	You supply one or more clues for the words in a filled-in grid.	H H H H H H
829	Limerixicon 6	Supply a humorous limerick prominently featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters di-.	H H H H H 4 2
828	Inhuman Puns	Make a pun on the name of a familiar group, organization or company, and describe it or provide a quote from it.	M H H
827	Caller Idiot	Name a real product or company and supply a stupid question or complaint for the consumer hotline person.	L
826	The Inside Word	Take any word -- this may include the name of a person or place -- put a portion of it in quotation marks, and redefine the word.	H H H H H
825	Disinstrumentals	Write some words to music that has no words.	W
824	Jestinations	Give us a slogan for any city or town.	L H H
823	Wryku	Compose a humorous (or at least wry or clever) haiku.	H H
821	Spit the Difference	How are any of the items on the list above alike or different?	H
820	Be Mister Language Person	Supply a Mister Language Person-type question and answer.	H
819	Art Re-View	These objects are not what they seem to be, at first glance. They are something else entirely. What are they?	M H
818	Name the Day	Cite an actual holiday or one of those silly commemorative days, weeks or months for which you can find previous evidence, and supply a snarky description or slogan.	H
817	Flopflip	Reverse the first half and second half of a word or name and define the result.	H
816	Googillions	Come up with an original phrase that generates at least 1 million listings on a Google search.	T H H
815	Wittecisms	Create an original word containing -- in any order -- at least a W, an I, two T's and an E.	H H H H
814	There Will Be Bloodline	Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name their foal.	H H H H H
813	Aw, Shocks	Give us a humorous example of the "shocking -- not.	T H H
812	Rx-Related Humor	Offer up some entirely false medical or psychological "fact.	T
810	What Kind of Foal Am I?	Breed any two of the more than 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races and provide an appropriate name for their foal.	H H H
808	Take Us At Our Words	Create a humorous poem or other writing using only the words contained in this week's Style Invitational column or results.	H H H H H 3
807	Pretty Graphic Expressions	Express some insight as an equation or other mathematical expression.	H H H
805	Brand Eccchs	Give us an original name in any of the above categories (not an actual badly named product).	H
804	Our Type o' Joke	Change a headline by one letter, or switch two letters, in a headline (or most of a headline) appearing on an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com between Feb. 14 and 23, and elaborate on it in a "bank" headline (subhead) or a brief first sentence of an article that would run under it.	H H
803	The Pepys Show	Write a humorous diary or journal entry for someone, famous or not, for any point in history.	M H H H 2
801	Ask Backwards	You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. You supply one or more of the questions.	H
800	Compairison	Briefly define or sum up an existing word or short phrase, then change it very slightly and do the same with the result.	T H H H H
799	Send Us the Bill	Come up with legislation that, given their names, two or more freshman senators or representatives might sponsor together.	H
798	Dead Letters	Write a humorous poem commemorating someone who died in 2008.	M H H H
797	Be Resolute	Make a humorous resolution for some particular person or institution to accomplish next year.	H
796	Sincerest Flattery	Make up a pun on a familiar name of a real of fictional person and provide a fitting description or quote.	H H H H H H H 4
795	Stimulate Us	Tell us what the government ought to be spending our money on.	H
793	Take The Fifth	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 725 through Week 789. Each entry must include the word "five" of "fifth" or something fiveish, or -- depending on your favorite anniversary tradition -- something involving (a) wood or (b) silverware.	H H
792	Clue Us In	Compile a set of funny alternative clues to a crossword penned by Ace Constructor Paula Gamache.	H H H H
791	The 1K Club	Supply a chain of 20 names -- they may be names of people, places, organizations, products, etc., but they must be names -- beginning and ending with "Chris Doyle.	H H 2
790	If Only!	Explain how the world would be different had some event not occurred.	W
789	Doctrine in The House?	State a humorous, original "doctrine" for a person or other entity.	T H
787	Tour de Fours V	Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order -- the letters M, I, N and E.	H
786	Top of the Staake	So get your thoughts provoked for No. Umpteen of our cartoon caption contest.	H
785	The Ballad Box	Write a short, humorous song somehow relating to the presidential campaign, set to a familiar tune.	M H H H H H H
783	The Shill Game	Name a celebrity or fictional character to endorse a real product or company.	T H H H
782	That's the Ticket!	Explain why any of the items on the list below is qualified to be President of the United States.	H
781	Our Greatest Hit	Start with a word or multi-word term that begins with I, J, K or L; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word.	H H H H H H H H 5
780	Location, Location, Location	Say how you know you're in a particular place.	H H
778	Tied Games	Combine any two sports or nonathletic activities into a single sport or game.	H
777	Limerixicon 5	Supply a humorous limerick featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters da-.	W M H H H H H H
775	Ad-dition	Combine the beginning and end of any two words appearing in any single advertisement in The Post or on washingtonpost.com, from today through Aug. 4, and then define the new word.	H H
773	Always Looking for Sects	Coin a religion or belief system and tell us its basic tenet or distinguishing characteristic.	H H 3
772	Make It Simile, Stupid	Translate a sentence or two of literature or other good writing so that "Los Angeles residents under 40" can appreciate it.	M H
771	Groaner's Manuals	Come up with a humorous name for a guide or manual for, or a book about, a particular enterprise or organization.	H H H H
769	Splice Work If You Can Get It	Combine two words -- overlapping by at least two letters -- into what's known by polysyllabic types as a portmanteau word, and by the rest of us as mash word, and define it.	H H H 3
766	Think to Shudder	Come up with scenarios that are even more awkward (and more imaginative) than the wincers mentioned above.	H
764	Can You Up Chuck?	Come up with entirely new and funny Chuck Norris Facts.	M
763	Another Time Around the Track	Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name THEIR foal.	H H H H H
762	Look This Up in Your Funk & Wagnalls	Supply the pair of terms listed at the top of a page of any print dictionary to indicate the first and last listings on the page, and define that hyphenated term.	H
760	Whacksy Buildup	Describe any of these Googlewhacks in the form of a question, "Jeopardy"-style.	H H H H H
759	What Kind of Foal Am I?	Breed any two of the 100 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown and provide an appropriate name for their foal.	H H H H H
758	Wrong Address	Using any of the words of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in whatever order you like, create your own passage.	H
757	Gorey Thoughts From A to Z	Send us some rhyming alphabet-primer couplets.	H H
755	Take Another 'Whack	Send us a phrase of two or more words that produces exactly one Web page on the Google search engine and describe the phrase.	H H H H 2
754	Canny Similarities	Cite a humorous "uncanny similarity" between any two of the very different people listed above.	H H 2
753	Hot Off The Riddle	Supply a simple riddle and both the wholesome answer and the (printable) Invitational answer.	H 4
752	The Might-Mates Right	Fill out any of these five "you just might" joke-templates.	T H
751	Strike Gold	Slightly change the name of an existing or former TV show to create a program that can scab the writers' strike.	H H
749	Opus 266, No. 3	Take any common word or two-word term beginning with any letter from A through H and give it a new definition.	T H H H H H H H
748	Dead Letters	Write a humorous poem about a well-known personage who died in 2007.	H H
745	Hurry Up and Slow Down!	Suggest particular ways that would slow life down, or ways that would speed it up.	H
744	You OED Us One	Make up a humorous and false definition for any of the words listed below.	M H H H H
742	Clue Us In	Give us a whole new set of clues to a crossword puzzle penned by Ace Constructor Paula Gamache.	H H
735	Look Back in Inker	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 680 through Week 731.	H H
734	Turnaround Time	Write a rhyming couplet containing two words that are anagrams of each other.	L H H H H 2
733	Just Drop It, Okay?	Drop the first letter from an actual word or term to make a new word or term, and define it.	H H H H
732	The Chain Gang	Supply a chain of 25 names -- they may be names of people, places, organizations, products, etc., but they must be names -- beginning and ending with "George W. Bush.	H H 5
729	Otherwordly Visions	Take any sentence in an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 1 through Sept. 10 and translate it into "plain English.	H
728	Tour de Fours IV	Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order you like -- the letters S, A, T and R.	M H H H H
726	Limerixicon 4	Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary beginning with cl- through co-.	H H H H 3
724	Abridged Too Far	Sum up a book, play or movie in a humorous rhyming verse of two to four lines.	I H
723	Name Your Poison	Create a name and recipe for a cocktail and, if you like, describe when it might be served.	H H H
721	Know Your Market	For any of the provided photos, supply two captions: one that would appeal to The Style Invitational and one that would appeal to the Harrisburg Patriot-News.	H
720	The Course of Humor Events	Sum up a historical event in a two-line rhyme or other clever and pithy epigram.	W H H H
719	We Har the World	Come up with a creative name for a sports team for a town or city anywhere outside the United States.	H H H H H H
718	Put Our Heads Together	Create a new, funny headline from the words of any headlines appearing anywhere in a single day's Washington Post (or on washingtonpost.com)	H H H
716	The Hard Spell	Write a humorous poem featuring one of the 75 words we've selected from this year's National Spelling Bee.	H H H H H
715	Your Mug Here	Send us an idea for a slogan for the back of the new Loser T-shirt.	W
714	Amalgamated Steal	Merge two or more company or product names into a new, ORIGINAL company or product.	H H H H H 3
712	Another Time Around the Track	Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in the results of Week 708, and name THEIR foal.	H H H H 4
711	Join Now!	Hyphenate the beginning and end of any two multi-syllabic words appearing anywhere in the April 29 or May 6 Style or Sunday Arts section, and then define the compound.	H H H H H 3
708	What Kind of Foal Am I?	Breed any two from a list of 100 of the horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races and provide an appropriate name for their foal.	H H H H H 4
707	What Would YOU Do?	Use only the words appearing in "The Cat in the Hat" to create your own work of "literature" of no more than 75 words.	W H H H H
706	Questionable Journalism	Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from March 24 through April 2 and come up with a question it could answer.	H H 3
704	Another Game of Tag	Create vanity plates for well-known people, real or fictional.	H
700	Stump Us	Come up with someone's slogan for the 2008 presidential campaign.	H
699	Our Greatest Hit	Take a word, term or name that begins with E, F, G or H; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word.	H H H H H H H H
697	We Beg You To Differ	Take any two items from the truly random provided list and explain why they are different or why they are similar.	H
696	Send Us the Bill	Come up legislation the newly-elected members of Congress might sponsor together.	H
695	Dead Letters	Write a poem about someone who died in 2006.	W H H H
692	Reinkernation	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 640 through Week 688. Every entry must include the word "three" or "third" or a creative variation.	H
691	Haven't Got a Clue	Make all the clues in the provided crossword ooh-clever or at least ah-that's-funny, even the little words.	W H H H H H H H
689	Busted Play	Come up with a more objectionable or stupid toy than a working fart-powered toy rocket.	T
687	Whatever Were They Thinking?	Tell us (A) What someone might say in some situation, and (B) what that person was actually thinking when he said A.	H H 3
684	Backtricking	Spell a word backward and define the result, somehow relating the definition to the original word.	H
681	Ticket to Write	Write a jingle for a business (or its product), organization or government agency, set to a Beatles song.	H H H
676	Tour de Fours III	Coin and define a word containing -- with no other letters between them, but in any order you like -- the letters L, E, A and F.	H H H H 3
674	Limerixicon 3	Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with ca-.	W H H H H H H
671	Join Now!	Hyphenate the beginning and end of any two multi-syllabic words appearing anywhere in the July 16 Style or Sunday Arts section, and then define the compound.	H H H H H H H 3
670	A Test of Character	Change a word or phrase by only one letter -- substitute one letter for another, add a letter or transpose two letters -- and explain how they are different or similar.	H H H H H H
669	Huddled Messes	Suggest some bad advice for new arrivals to this country (legal or illegal).	H
668	Cut From the Chase	Write an original John-Bunnell-style wrap-up to a crime story -- or one for a more minor transgression.	3
665	Your One-in-a-Million	Coin the millionth word in the English language and define it. The word must end in -ion.	H H H 4
664	A Thousand Times?! No!	Come up with a new signature line for Russell Beland's -- or anyone else's -- e-mails.	T
663	Worth at Least a Dozen Words	Interpret any of the provided cartoons as you see fit in a caption.	H
661	Name Any Good Movies Lately?	Give us a funny new title for an existing movie.	T M H
660	Foaling Down: The Next Generation	Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name THEIR foal.	T H H H H H
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.	T H H
658	Not in the Cards	Send us ideas for cards that would likely be ruled "FBN" (Funny, But No) by Hallmark but F&YYY by the Empress.	H H
657	Nuts Fruit	Send in funny (but printable) images of real pieces of fruit.	H
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 H H H H 3
655	Laughing Inside	Take any article appearing in The Washington Post or online on washingtonpost.com from today through April 3 -- the more serious and/or mundane its headline, the better -- and write a funny poem or other passage using only words that appear in that article.	W T L H H 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
652	Ask Backward	You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. You supply the questions.	H 2
649	Across the Wide What?	Give us some Virginia-appropriate lyrics for "Shenandoah.	W
645	A Hearty Har Har	Write up a Valentine's sentiment to any personage, or to someone in some generic category.	W H H
644	Winter Limp Picks	Brighten up the Winter Olympics with some new events and rules. Alternatively, you can suggest a commercial or ad campaign that could be tied in with the Winter Games or one of its sports.	T
643	The Post's Mortems	Give us a rhyming poem about some notable who died in 2005.	H H
642	It's Open Season	Come up with a brand-new word and its definition. The words must begin with O, P, Q, R or S.	H H H
641	Dreck of All Trades	Come up with a business that combines two or more disparate products or services, and tell us its name and/or something else funny about it.	H H H H H H 3
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
636	A Song From Tex Arcana	Write a verse of a song about sea urchin sushi or any of the other provided ostensibly unlyrical topics.	H H H
635	I've Told You a Hundred Times	Enter any Style Invitational from Week 536 to Week 631. Your entry must be substantially different from the original winners.	W H H H H
634	Mess With Our Heads	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from today through next Sunday, and change its meaning by adding either a "bank headline," or subtitle, or the first sentence of an article that might appear under it.	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 H H H
630	Hyphen the Terrible	Combine the beginning and end of any two multisyllabic words in this week's Invitational, and then define the compound.	W H H 2
629	Odd Couplings	Marry or otherwise combine famous names and supply the result.	H H H 4
627	Per-Verse	Write a limerick or other short poem with comically awful rhyming.	H
624	Limerixicon 2	Supply a limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with bd- through bl-.	W T H H H H H H H H H H
623	Try to Remember	Give us an original mnemonic for any list that someone might want to remember.	W H H H
622	Our Sunday Constitutional	Write a new article or amendment to the Constitution, using on the words contained in the existing document (including amendments).	L H H H H 3
621	Questionable Journalism	Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article in washingtonpost.com anytime through Aug. 8 and supply a question it could answer.	H H
619	WordCount Us In	Write a poem of no more than four lines containing four or more consecutive words on the WordCount list. They must occur in the sentence in the order they appear on the list.	T H A 4
618	Of D.C. I Sing	Give us a song about Washington, set to a recognizable tune.	H H
617	Best the Best	Write something about any famous personage that uses only the letters in his or her name.	W H H H H H H
613	Tour de Fours II	Create and define a word that includes, consecutively, E, R, A and N. in any order.	H H H H H H H H H 4
611	Ask Backwards, Erudite Edition	You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the sophisticated answers. You supply the questions.	H H
610	MASH	Find two well-known movies, plays, or TV shows whose title have a significant word in common, combine their titles, and describe the hybrid.	H H
609	A2D2	Give us some funny "corrections" to brighten up Page A2.	H
607	Contest Fodder Created!	Produce absurdly parochial views of historical events.	H H
606	The News Could be Verse	Translate the fine prose of Washington Post articles into verse. Choose any article appearing in The Post of on its Web site from April 17 through April 25.	H H 3
605	Truly Stupendous Ideas	Name two people with the same initials (the people can be living or dead, real or fictional) and explain how they are similar or different.	H H 3
604	Fun for the Roses	Breed any two of the horses on a list of those qualifying for this year's Triple Crown races, and tell us a good name for their foal. The name of the foal must be no more than 18 characters, including spaces.	H H 2
603	Sui Genesis	Take one or two of the 50 chapters of the KJV Book of Genesis and draw thou from them, using words in the order in which they appear in the original, your own passage.	L H H 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.	T H H H 5
600	Top of the Inking	Tell us some ways the District of Columbia will change now that we have the Nationals.	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.	T H H H
597	Eccchsibits	Come up with some alternative museums and exhibits for the nation's capital.	H
596	Take Her Words for It	Use the words of this week's Ask Amy advice column, as a pool from which to compose your own useful (or useless) thoughts. You may ignore or change capitalization or punctuation.	L H
594	History Loves Company	Name an appropriate corporate sponsor for some historical event or for someone's life story.	T H H 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.	H H 3
592	We Got Gamy	Offer us a concise idea for a Super Bowl commercial, or some innovative halftime entertainment, or some inappropriate sponsors, or some ideas for improving the game itself.	H
591	Dead Letters	Write rhyming poems about notable personages who have died in the past year.	H
590	Send Us the Bill	Come up with a bill sponsored by any combination of the newly elected members of Congress and explain the purpose of the bill.	H H H
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 H H H H H H H
587	The B-List	Come up with an In-Out list for 2005, or other pairings.	H H
586	God's Will (and Won't)	Complete either of the following: "If God hadn't wanted us to ----, God wouldn’t have ----"; "If God had wanted us to ----, God would have ----.	H H 3
585	It's Parody Time	Offer, in the holiday spirit of goodwill, some advice--as constructive and unifying as Loserly suggestions always are--to our nation's leaders (or the loyal opposition) as we prepare for the next four years. This advice will be set to the tune of some winter holiday song, either religious or secular.	H H H H 3
584	Deliver Us a Post	Come up with some new Cabinet or other positions that the president could establish, and describe the job responsibilities.	H
583	Mess With Our Heads	Take any headline, verbatim, from the Washington Post or its Web site from today through next Sunday, and reinterpret it by writing either a "bank headline"--or subtitle--or the first sentence of an article that changes the original meaning entirely.	H H H
582	Perversery Rhymes	Update a nursery rhyme or children's song with an edgier text.	H
581	Evil Things in Store	Think of evil or just plain stupid practices that the staff of a retail or other establishment might perpetrate.	T
580	United Nations	Combine the names of any two countries in the world and describe the new hybrid country.	H H H
579	Another Brilliant Contest! Do Enter!	Write us a sentence or phrase consisting of words beginning with consecutive letters, in the A-to-Z direction.	H H H
578	Ask Backwards	You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. Send us the questions.	H
577	Teledubbies	Slightly change the title of a TV show, past or present, and describe it.	H H 5
576	Well, Excuuuuse Us!	Come up with new excuses for any common human shortcoming or imperfection.	T H
573	Thine Ad Goest Here	Propose biblical and other literary passages, poems, etc., that could benefit from product placement.	H
572	The Limerixicon	Supply a limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with ai- through ar-.	H H H H
571	A Tour de Fours	Create and define a word that includes T, H, E, and S in any order. The letters must appear consecutively.	I H H H H H H H H H H 5
570	Timeline Rhyme Lines	Produce colorful chronological couplets about some historical event. They must rhyme and be in good meter.	H H H 4
569	Murphy's Lore	Give Eric Murphy advice he deserves on the provided questions.	H H 3
568	Tome Deftness	Make a pun or similar wordplay on a book title.	L H H H H H 4 2
567	A Running Gag	Explain how any of the provided bizarre cartoons by Bob Staake relates to the current presidential campaign.	H H
566	Get Whack	Type a two-word phrase into the Google search engine that produces exactly one result.	H H H H H H H
565	Anthem Is as Anthem Does	Give us a verse for an alternative U.S. national anthem, set to any well-known tune.	W H H H H
564	Redefine Print	Redefine any word from the dictionary.	H H H
563	Take Two	Take any two of the provided items and explain how they resemble or differ from each other.	H H
562	The LMNs of Style	Write a funny sentence (or more) that you spell with only the sounds of the names of letters and those of numbers 1 through 9.	T H H 4 2
561	Deform of a Question	Take any sentence appearing in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com today through June 14, and make up a question to which the sentence could be an answer.	T H H H
560	The 97.5-Meter Dash	Suggest some time- and cost-saving measures so the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens will open on time.	H H H
559	Your Slogan Here	Come up with a clever slogan or sign for a business.	W T H H H H 3
558	Set Us Right	Send us conservative-leaning humor in any of the provided genres.	H 2
557	Oh, for Namesakes!	Take two people, real or fictional, who share some element of their names and explain the difference between them.	H H H 3
556	So Zoo Us	Combine any two kinds of animals, give its name and describe it.	H H H H
555	A Tsk, A Task	Come up with a super-wholesome passage of 25 words or fewer that would likely be banned by the admirable, ever-vigilant Neopets.com site.	H H
554	Love the Tiny Tail Stain	Write an anagram based on a name or event that's been in the news recently.	W H H H H H H H H H 3
553	Picture This	Tell us what's going on in one or more of the provided cartoons.	H H
552	What Kind of Foal Am I?	Breed any two of the horses on a list of those qualifying for this year's Triple Crown races, and tell us a good name for their foal. Maximum 18 characters, including spaces.	H H H H H 6
551	Lost in Translation	Find us some comical translations-and-back using Google translator. Feed some passage of English text into the tool--25 words max--and ask it to translate it into one of the five languages offered; then copy the result back into the tool and ask it to translate that back to English.	H H H
549	Show Us Your Best Quantities	Come up with novel units of measure, and explain or quantify them.	H H H H 4
548	Inklings	Tell us about certain people's childhood experiences and behaviors that hint at their destinies.	H H H
547	Give Us a Bad Name	Take an existing product or business name and pair it with an incompatible one.	3
546	A Nice Pair of Cities	Choose any two or more real U.S. towns and come up with a joint endeavor they would undertake.	H H H H 4
545	Put It in Reverse	Spell a word backward and define it, with the definition relating in some way to the original word.	H H H H H
544	You Gotta Have Heart	Write us some valentine sentiments from one particular person (real or fictional) to another.	W L H
543	Read Our Leaps	Fill any readers of The Washington Post on Sunday, Feb. 29, 2032, on: (a) the day's lead news story; (b) the highest-flying company and its business; (c) the best-selling self-help book; and/or (d) the day's winning Style Invitational entry.	W T H H
542	Discombobulate Us	Come up with both an object/situation and a neologism for it, something that Bob Levey would never have stooped to print in his column.	W T H H H H H
541	Celled Up the River	Give us a delicious scenario, in which a cellphone yakker's yakking could be taken profitably out of context.	H H
540	Revisionist History, or Badenov for You?	State any news event (or old event) in the style of the Rocky-and-Bullwinkle teasers about the next show.	W H H H H H H H
539	Dead Letters	Pay tribute in verse to someone who died in 2003.	H H 4
538	Try, Try Again	Enter any previous Invitational. Your entry must be substantially different from the original winners.	H H H
537	The New York Post	Liven up any article appearing in The Washington Post or its Web site over the next eight days by giving it an irresponsibly sensationalistic headline.	T H H H
536	And the Horse He Rodin On	Come up with some words we can stick in the back of The Inker.	H H
535	Picture This	Can you tell us what astonishing news Bob Staake is trying to pass on with cartoons?	H H 2
534	The Feminine Touch	Propose how any male-dominated occupation or institution would change if it suddenly became female-dominated.	T H H H
533	Breed Apart	Mate the clones of any two famous real people, living or dead--a male and a female, please--and hypothesize what traits or skills their offspring might have.	T H
532	Short Pans	Come up with a terse review (four words or fewer) of any work of art.	W H H H
531	Your Cynic Duties	Come up with a saying that sounds as if it's going to be inspirational, but winds up being cynical, misanthropic or sad.	H
530	Tri Harder	Take any word, alter it in three ways--by adding a letter, by subtracting a letter and by changing a letter--and redefine all three new words.	H
529	United We Stanza	Summarize in four rhyming lines of verse any famous document, theory, principle or speech.	H H H 3
528	Ask Backwards	You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions?	H H H H H
527	Rite of First Defusal	Come up with witty or bizarre things to say to defuse the tension in awkward moments.	H 5
526	Conventional Wisdumb	Answer any of the provided questions.	H
525	It Won't Belong Now	Tell us which of three cartoons provided does not belong, and why.	H
524	Around Things Moving	Take the title of any book or movie, rearrange the words, and explain what the new book or movie is about.	H H
521	Hyphen the Terrible	Take the first half of any hyphenated word in today's Washington Post (or Tuesday's USA Today) and combine it with the second half of any other hyphenated word in the same story, and define the new word it produces.	H H H H 2
519	Hey, Baby, What's Your Sector?	Come up with pickup lines that could be heard only in Washington.	T H 3
518	Say, Kids, What Time Is It?	Fill in the blanks in the following sentence: "You know it's time to ------ when ------.	H H H 3
515	A Cellebration of Tasteful Living	Come up with ways that Martha Stewart can prettify and improve her new prison surroundings using only her skills, her impeccable taste and those resources available to her.	H H H
513	It's Delete We Can Do	Come up with very bad subject lines for spam e-mail--lines that will guarantee instant deletion, sight unseen.	H
512	Live On, Sweet, Earnest Reader	Take the name of any person--living, dead, fictional--and use the letters of his name, in succession, to form the first letters of an expression appropriate to that person.	W H H H H
511	It All Impends	Tell us what is something unusual about to happen in the provided cartoons.	H 4
510	Universal Embarrassment	What would you like to see Miss Universe Pageant contestants asked live, on national TV?	H
508	Letter Rip	Take a word from the dictionary, add, change, or delete a single letter, and redefine the word.	H H H H H 2
507	Crocktails	Come up with a drink named for something or someone associated with Washington and describe the drink.	T 3 2
506	The Battle of All Mottoes	Provide a slogan for any federal department agency, department, office, etc.	H H H 5
505	The Rule of Dumb	You are given $1 million. Conditions: (1) You must spend it all. (2) You must use it in a way that neither directly nor indirectly works to your financial benefit. (3) You may not use it to alleviate the suffering of anyone on Earth, or for any public-spirited project other than the joy of stupidity.	H H
504	Life Is Snort	Write a schmaltzy last line of a "Life Is Short.	H
503	Doody and Muldoon	Write poetry that out-Muldoons Paul Muldoon, the Princeton professor who won this year's Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Your poem must be a single quatrain, containing at least one rhyme and references to at least two body parts and one geographic name.	W H
501	Questionable Sentences	Take any sentence appearing anywhere in today's Washington Post and make it the answer to a question.	T H H
500	Ergo-Nomics	Create a sillygism--a syllogism that doesn't quite work.	T H H
499	What Kind of Foal Am I?	Mate any two of the horses qualifying for this year's Triple Crown and tell us the name of their foal. Maximum 18 characters, including spaces.	H H 2
498	Unamazing But True!	Submit a true fact that is of absolutely no use, but interesting in a weirdly Invitationalist way.	T H
496	The Style Invitational: The First Dreckade	Submit new entries to any of the old contests listed, and try to beat The Very Best of the Past 10 Years.	H H H H H H 3
495	Words of One Syl- . . . Um, Just Short Words	Take some complex issue of any sort and explain it to all us morons entirely in words of one syllable.	4
490	Eyes on Reprise	Submit any good entries you might have thought of, for any previous contest, after the deadline passed.	H H H H H H H H H H H H H 4
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.	H H 2
487	Eee! Rotica	Come with a passage in a novel that ineptly describes hanky-panky.	H
486	A Word From Our Co-Sponsors	Come up with bills the new members of Congress might sponsor. Each bill must have at least two sponsors.	W
485	Asterisky Business	Write a joke with a punch line depending on knowledge so esoteric that it requires an asterisked explanation.	H H H H H 2
484	Manufracturing	Take any product and explain how it would be different if it were designed by a different existing company.	H H
483	Obitter Fate	Give us an obit headline for some famous person, currently living or dead.	H
482	Inspect Our Gadgets	What are these gadgets? What do they do?	T
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 H H H H H
480	In No Uncertain Terminations	Come up with a way to stop any unwanted overture in its tracks.	T
479	Invest Case Scenario	Suggest new companies in which it might be unwise to invest.	T
478	Do You Mindset?	Anticipate items for the Mindset List for the freshman class of the year 2020.	H
476	Portmanteautapping	Make a new word by squishing together two existing words. The constituent words must share at least two letters.	H H H H H H 4
474	Alphabettering	Create a sentence that uses each letter of the alphabet at least once but that would never be heard on the politically correct, genteel, rarefied air of NPR.	T H H H 6
472	Water Stupid Idea	Propose bad ideas for saving water in the continuing drought.	T H
470	Czar Har	Take the name of someone famous, rhyme it with a product, and describe the unholy union.	H H
469	Playing Check-In	Suggest appropriate hotel check-in names for any celebrities, past or present, living or dead.	H
468	Ism This Stupid?	Take any common prefix and attach it to any well-known "ism" and define the new term.	H H H 2
466	Spit the Difference	Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items.	W H
462	Cast Away	Come up with a terrible bit of miscasting in a movie or TV show, past or present, real or imagined.	7
459	Stock Humor	Look at any of the abbreviated company names in the Nasdaq or New York Stock Exchange listings in any newspaper's business section and suggest what business the companies might be in.	T H H
455	Comixing	Create new comic characters by crossing two existing characters, then describe the character.	T H
454	Ask Backwards	You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions?	H H
453	Haiku 2 U2	Write a haiku summarizing the career of any American politician, living or dead. A haiku is generally defined as a nonrhyming poem, of three lines. The first and last lines are five syllables; the middle line is seven.	H H 3
452	Russellmania!	(1) Design one or more steps for a 12-step program for the recovering Invitationalaholic; (2) Propose a devious method by which we might lure Russell Beland back.	H 2
451	Make Your Pix	Which two of the provided cartoons are related, and how?	4
449	Cut and Pastiche	Create a new, funny headline from the words of any headlines appearing anywhere in today's Post. You cannot subdivide words.	H H H H H H 3
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 H H H H 6
447	Acronimble	Take any of the provided witty statements and use the first letters in each of the words to create a brand-new, unrelated funny statement.	H H H H H 2
445	Another Round of Bierce	Add a few entries to Ambrose Bierce's famous "Devil's Dictionary.	H H H 3
444	Advice Squad	Take any letter from today's advice columns and answer it in the voice of someone famous, living or dead.	H
443	Sick Humor	Come up with modern diseases of Washington life.	H H H H H H H
441	Spit the Difference	Take any two nouns that appear on the front page of today's Washington Post and explain how the nouns differ from each other.	W H H H H
440	Picture This	What is going on in these cartoons?	H H
438	What's the Pun Line?	Ask a question and answer it, somewhere incorporating the name of a least one famous person.	W T H H H H
433	Takes a Break	No contests until mid-January. Czar ran biographies of Russell Beland, Sarah Gaymon, John Kammer, and Paul Kondis, each containing one lie.	T
431	Please Bear With Us . . .	There is no contest. Czar ran biographies of Chuck Smith and Jean Sorensen, each containing one lie.	T
430	OMB Directive No. 2	Revisit any contest The Style Invitational has ever run, and rewrite our tawdry past by proposing a new first-prize winner serious and/or decorous enough to please the Ombudsman.	T H
429	Shark Instruments	Tell us what would be a sign that any current institution--TV show, newspaper feature, magazine, business, etc.--has jumped the shark.	W H H
426	Captions Courageous	Take any photograph or illustration from today's Washington Post and give it a more interesting caption.	H H
425	Hyphen the Terrible	Take the first half of any hyphenated word from any story in today's newspaper and combine it with the second half of any other hyphenated word in the same story, and propose a definition of the new word you've created.	W H H H
424	Osama Chanted Evening	Write poems about Osama bin Laden.	H H H H
423	Roling With Laughter	Take a character from one movie, use him or her to replace a character in a second movie, and then explain how this change would affect the second movie.	T H H 3
422	Taught Language	Come up with lessons learned from (1) the movies, (2) popular songs, (3) romance novels or (4) the comics page.	T H
419	Don't Spare the Rodney	Come up with indications that one might not be getting no respect.	H H 5 3
418	Xtreme Invitational	Come up with signs you are overdoing it any in any of the provided categories.	T
417	Initially Mistaken	Take any name of a person or thing, and construct an appropriate message using its letters, in order, as the first letters of the words of your message.	W H H H H
416	Diff'rent Jokes	Describe how things might have been different if a famous person, living or dead, had had one of the provided conditions.	H 2
415	Sentence Us to Death	Take any sentence appearing anywhere in today's Washington Post, and invent a question that it answers.	H
414	No Rest for the Query	Complete the provided rhetorical question by filling in the blanks. It must be a put-down.	T
413	Bland Ambition	Come up with one or more items from an underachiever's list of midlife resolutions.	T
412	Painful Climaxes	Come up with statements that start really dramatically, but leave you sorta flat at the end.	H H
411	X's and Oaths	Take any oath, pledge, declaration or slogan and update it.	H
410	Ask Backwards	You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions?	H H H
408	What's In a Name?	Take the name of any politician, living or dead, and construct an appropriate message from the letters of the name. You may use any letter as many times as you wish, and you may insert punctuation.	W H H H 3 2
407	Adverbiage	Come up with a witticism or a joke by making a pun out of an adverb. Unlike Tom Swiftlys, your adverb must modify not a verb but an adjective.	W H H H
405	The "Sty"le Invitational	Take any word--this may include people or places--put a portion of it in "air quotes" and redefine it. You may not alter the spelling.	H H H H H H
402	Spitting the Difference	Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items.	T H
401	A Matter of Degree	Describe a sign of some modest change in a situation and pair it with a sign of an extreme change in that same situation.	2
398	Animal Magnetism	Make great literature and/or a significant expression of the human condition out of the provided randomly-selected words. Use whatever punctuation you choose and any of the words, but only those words, and use them only once.	H
397	Sins of Omission	Omit a letter or letters from a real-life sign to create a name for a new business, comically different from the original. Describe the new business or include a slogan that explains it.	T H H 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 H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H
395	Devilishly Clever	Describe someone's special little corner of Hell.	H H
394	Life in the Blurbs	Come up with a blurb used to sell a real or imagined book or movie that would be likely to have the opposite of the intended effect.	H
393	Things Could Be Verse	Take any story in today's Washington Post and rewrite it into a rhyming poem of no more than eight lines.	H 3
392	Everyone's a Comic	Choose any panel of any comic strip in today's Washington Post and improve it by replacing the original speech and thought balloons with your own,	U H
390	Canine Fashion	Write: 1. A caption for the provided image explaining what is happening; 2. An explanation of why the image is not photography but art; 3. A description of what additional items might be needed to make the image complete. Sex and potty jokes will be disqualified.	H
387	By Jingo	Come up with a joke that could be written and understood only by a Washingtonian.	H 3
382	Pickup Schticks	Write inept pickup lines, by either sex, to either sex.	H H
381	Idiom Savant	Take any well-known idiom, or expression, and invent an interesting derivation for it.	H 3
380	The New-Name Offense	Propose changes for the names of places and things that need it, either because there is something wrong with their name, or because another name would be so much more descriptive.	2
379	Rather Unusual	Come up with lines that could be uttered by Dan Rather, with his unbearably folksy excesses.	H H
376	Apply Yourself	Supply bad openings to college application biographies.	5
374	Bill Us Later	Take a well-known expression and update it for the new millennium.	H
373	An Extra Large Challenge	What should we put on the back of the new Style Invitational T-shirt?	H
372	Trial Balloons	Fill in the balloons.	H H
371	Ask Backward	You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions?	H
368	Hyphen the Terrible	Combine the first half of any hyphenated word in a story in today's paper with the second part of a different hyphenated word from the same story, and provide a new definition.	W H H H H H
365	Terse Verse	Ask a question and then answer it with a rhyme. Your answer can be as many words as you wish, but all must have the same rhyme.	U H H 3
364	Low Marks	Come up with a new punctuation mark. Tell us what it looks like, and what it is used for, and use it in a sentence.	H H
363	It's Your Movie	Take the title of any movie and make it the answer to a riddle.	H H H H 3
360	No Competition	Create a list of 25 names, each linked in some way to the name before, and you must begin and end with Mary Ann Madden.	W U H H H H H H H H
359	It's No Party	Come up with a new political party and its main political tenet.	H H 5
358	Finish the Fire	Finish "We Didn't Start the Fire," to summarize 1990 to the present.	W H H H H H H H H H
357	Coming to a Bad End	Take some immortal line from literature or film and ruin it by adding a short phrase or sentence.	H H
352	A Laff Riot	Take the name of a company and/or its commercial product and provide it a new definition.	H H H
351	Dubya Fun	Take any well-known statement, expression, slogan, etc., and rewrite it the way Dubya might have said it.	H H
350	Employing Irony	Propose bad career choices.	2
349	Orienting Oneself	Produce a haiku using only words found in today's Washington Post. Your entry must have three lines, the first containing exactly five syllables, the second containing exactly seven syllables, the third containing exactly five.	H
347	Capital Pun-ishment	Take an expression, or a lyric for a song, or any recognizable line of prose, and make it the punchline of an awful pun.	H H H 3
344	What Kind of Foal Am I?	Envision the mating of any two of the 387 horses qualifying for this year's Triple Crown, and propose a name for their foal. The foal's name must be contained in 18 or fewer letters and spaces.	H H H H H 7
343	Eastwood Ho.	Create a Good-Bad-Ugly progression.	H
340	ASK BACKWARDS 12	You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. What are the questions?	H 6
339	Campaignful Developments	Come up with signs that a presidential campaign might be in trouble.	H
336	THE "STY"LE INVITATIONAL	Choose any word and emphasize a single part of it, as though you were saying the word out loud with "air quotes" around the key part. Then redefine the word. You cannot alter the spelling of the word.	H
329	THE STYLE INVITATIONAL: HELL	Take the name of a person or institution. Find within it a hidden message. You may add spacing and punctuation, but you may not move letters around.	H 3
322	YOU NAME IT	Take a well known pair or group of names, extend one of them in some manner, and explain how the group dynamic changes.	H H H
314	IT'S THE LIST YOU CAN DO	Start with the name of a famous person, living or dead, real or fictional, either a full name or partial name. Progress through a series of other names or phrases. Each name or phrase must be related to the prior item either by being a homophone or a definition. Eventually, arrive at a name or a phrase that is an appropriate pairing with the original name.	H
79	TERROR-DACTYL	Send us a double dactyl. The first line must be a nonsense phrase of five to seven syllables containing exactly two downbeats. The second line must be a name, in five to seven syllables but only two downbeats. The remaining six lines must contain four to seven syllables and two downbeats each, with Lines 4 and 8 rhyming. Somewhere in the poem, one line must consist of only one word.	4

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