WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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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 |
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 |
817 | Flopflip | Reverse the first half and second half of a word or name and define the result. | H |
812 | Rx-Related Humor | Offer up some entirely false medical or psychological "fact. | H |
673 | Mess With Our Heads | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Washington Post or on Washingtonpost.com from July 30 through Aug. 7 and reinterpret it by adding either a "bank headline," or subtitle, or the first sentence of an article that might appear under it. | 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. | 1 |
667 | Questionable Journalism | Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com anytime from now through June 26 and supply a question it could answer. | M H |
663 | Worth at Least a Dozen Words | Interpret any of the provided cartoons as you see fit in a caption. | 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. | M |
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 |
650 | King Us | Give us a scenario for a horror novel based on an everyday item. | P |
647 | Paste Imperfect | Change a headline or sentence that appears in the Post or on washingtonpost.com through Feb. 6 either by deleting up to 40 consecutive characters from it or by adding 40 consecutive characters from the same article or ad. | H |
645 | A Hearty Har Har | Write up a Valentine's sentiment to any personage, or to someone in some generic category. | 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. | H |
633 | Your Secret Here! | Send us some original secrets (they don't have to be true). | H |
629 | Odd Couplings | Marry or otherwise combine famous names and supply the result. | I |
626 | Course Light | Come up with a comical college class, along with a description for the course catalog. | H |
623 | Try to Remember | Give us an original mnemonic for any list that someone might want to remember. | T |
613 | Tour de Fours II | Create and define a word that includes, consecutively, E, R, A and N. in any order. | H |
612 | Oh, and One More Thing | What was the thing that didn't make the cut on any list? | 1 |
611 | Ask Backwards, Erudite Edition | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the sophisticated answers. You supply the questions. | 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. | H |