| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1611 | Ask Backwards XLIII | We give you the 'answers'; you tell us the questions. | H |
| 1609 | Saved! | Tell us funny ways to be thrifty in these parlous times | H |
| 1608 | Stick It | An election bumper sticker contest | H H H |
| 1602 | We Got Game | Tell us some funny ways to 'improve' a sport. | H |
| 1601 | Stop, Hey, What's That Sound? | Tell us what these noise-words mean. | 4 |
| 1598 | Same Difference | We give you a random list of things, and you tell us how any two are alike or different. | H |
| 1590 | All You Need Is Ink | Take a line from a Beatles song and rhyme it with your own. | H |
| 1588 | Colt Fusion | Because of our munificense and guilt, you get a full hundred foal names to 'breed' for 'grandfoals' | H H |
| 1586 | Pun for the Roses | Our annual crazy-popular horse 'breeding' wordplay contest. | H H H |
| 1578 | The Pepys Show | Give us a diary entry from anyone in history. | H |
| 1567 | Picture This | A caption contest | 2 |
| 1556 | Cross Us Up | Mirror a phrase, more or less | 2 |
| 1551 | Ask Backwards XLII | We give the answers. You give the questions. | H |
| 1545 | Their Base Behavior | Tell humorously how some business or organization could alter its product or message to appeal to Trump’s cult. | W H |
| 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) | H |
| 1537 | A Crooning Achievement | Write a lyric for a politician to sing. | H |
| 1534 | Pun for the Roses | Our renowned horse name 'breeding' contest returns! | H H |
| 1531 | The Worst New Contest Ever | Describe something that would be worse than a second Trump presidency | 4 |
| 1492 | Set us right -- conservative humor | Send us conservative-leaning humor in a Q&A joke format or a knock-knock joke. | H |
| 1486 | No can do: Signs of incompetence | Give us a clue that someone was incompetent in a given field. | 4 |
| 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. | H 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. | H |
| 1429 | Forsoothsayers | Quote a line or so from any Shakespeare work, and exemplify it with a contemporary quote, real or imagined. | H |
| 1427 | Rocky of ages, or Badenov for you? | State any historical event -- right up to 2021 -- in the provided "A, or B" format. | H |
| 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. | 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. | H |
| 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. | H |
| 1356 | Ask Backwards 38 | Sixteen "answers" are provided. Tell us the questions. | H |
| 1326 | Foaling around | Breed" any two names from the provided list of 100 horses and name the foal to reflect both names. | H |
| 1112 | Some SHARP words | Coin a word or short term that includes all the letters S, H, A, R, and P. | 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 |
| 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. | H |
| 967 | Overlap dance II | Create a phrase that overlaps two terms, each of two words or more, and describe the result. | H |