WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1614 | The Tile Invitational XI | Make up new words with the letters we give you | H |
1609 | Saved! | Tell us funny ways to be thrifty in these parlous times | H |
1606 | The Cold New Trend | What would be an even sillier new fad than decorator refrigerator shelves? | H |
1591 | Our Typo Humor | More fun with headlines. | H |
1590 | All You Need Is Ink | Take a line from a Beatles song and rhyme it with your own. | H |
1574 | Oh, Grandpa, Stop! | Turn a 'dad joke' into a less-tame 'grandpa joke' | H |
1567 | Picture This | A caption contest | H |
1563 | The Perfect(ly Ridiculous) Gift | Offer up some products for people-who-have-everything catalogs. | H |
1542 | Your (B)ad Here | Tweak an ad slogan to use it for another product | 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. | H |
1386 | Colt following: It's the grandfoals! | Breed" any two of the 70 foal names that got ink this week and name the offspring to reflect both parents' names. | H |
1384 | Of course there are stupid questions! | Give us stupid questions, especially ones reflecting Our Current Situation. | H |
1373 | Prime time for some Amazon reviews | Send us a humorous "review" for any of the provided Amazon-listed items. | H |
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. | H |
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 |
1244 | Primed for product reviews | Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon. | 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. | H |
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. | H |
1106 | Show your resolve | Suggest a New Year's resolution that someone might make 100 or more years in the future. | H |
1026 | 'Might' makes ink | Give us a joke using any of the using any of the provided "you might be" templates. | H |
988 | A faster break | Suggest ways to make sports and other leisure activities more time-efficient or exciting. | 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. | 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. | 4 |
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. | H |