| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | H |
| 1353 | What's playing at the retroplex | Change a movie title to its "opposite" by reversing one or more words; then describe the new movie. | 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 |
| 1197 | Picture This -- It's a Bob Staake caption contest | Write a caption for any of the cartoons provided. | 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. | I H H H H H |
| 1185 | The Rorschach of the crowd | Interpret one of more of the provided genuine inkblots. You may look at them upside down or sideways. | 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. | I H |
| 1144 | Someone else's business | Name a real brand, along with something else it would be a better name for. | H |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 1128 | Drone for a loop | Give us some novel uses for a CICADA micro-drone, assuming that anyone can get one, and that it can have a micro-camera, micro-grips, etc. | 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. | H |
| 1126 | Picture this | Provide a humorous caption for any of the cartoons provided. | 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. | 4 |
| 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. | H |
| 1100 | Pun and ink -- the feghoot | Contrive an elaborate scenario that ends in a novel groaner pun on a familiar expression, title, etc. | H |
| 1087 | The core ridiculum | Come up with a comical class (any type of school) and provide a course catalog description. | H |
| 1079 | Little piddle riddle | Ask a question and answer it with a rhyme. | 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 |
| 1067 | A(t)tribute to your wit | Alter a well-known quote slightly and attribute it to someone else. | H 2 |
| 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. | I |
| 1058 | Eastwood Ho | Create a good-bad-ugly progression. | H |
| 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]. | H |
| 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 |
| 1009 | What's in a name? | Write something about some person, real or fictional, using only the letters in the person's name. | H |
| 1001 | Make us ROFL | Give us a funny, original acronym. | H 3 |
| 967 | Overlap dance II | Create a phrase that overlaps two terms, each of two words or more, and describe the result. | 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. | L |
| 965 | Foaling around | Breed any two of the horses in this year's Triple Crown races and name their foal. | 2 |
| 949 | Analogies | Give us an analogy using "a is to b as x is to y." | 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. | H |
| 939 | MASH 2: The Retread | Combine two movie titles and describe the result. | H |
| 932 | We'll call them your-mama jokes | Tell us an original "your mama" joke. | H |
| 925 | A remeaning task | Redefine a word in the dictionary beginning with I through O. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 911 | Help! | Create a short humorous dialogue -- or a monologue featuring one party -- of a phone call to 911, or a call for help to someone else. | I |
| 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 |
| 895 | Picture this | Supply a caption for any of these cartoons. | W |
| 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 H |
| 871 | Remarquees | Change a movie title by one letter (or number, if the title includes a number) and describe the new film. | H |
| 666 | Bedevil Us | Give a mini-sermon explaining how some innocuous object or event signals the End of Days. | H |
| 663 | Worth at Least a Dozen Words | Interpret any of the provided cartoons as you see fit in a caption. | T H 2 |
| 661 | Name Any Good Movies Lately? | Give us a funny new title for an existing movie. | 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 |
| 654 | It Plays to Recycle | Come up with funny ways to recycle things, people, writing (except for your old Invitational entries) or ideas. | H |
| 651 | Show Us Some Character | Add a character to a book or movie and tell us what happens in it. | H |
| 650 | King Us | Give us a scenario for a horror novel based on an everyday item. | H |
| 648 | Caller IDiot | Name a product or company and supply a stupid question to ask the consumer hotline person. | 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. | H H |
| 643 | The Post's Mortems | Give us a rhyming poem about some notable who died in 2005. | T |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 640 | Whassa Motto Wid You? | Give us a slogan or motto for any of the states, the District or the U.S. Territories. | H H H |
| 639 | What's the Small Idea? | Do you have a senseless idea for improving the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans? | 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. | T |
| 633 | Your Secret Here! | Send us some original secrets (they don't have to be true). | 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 |
| 631 | Picture This | What's going on in any of these cartoons? | H |
| 627 | Per-Verse | Write a limerick or other short poem with comically awful rhyming. | H |
| 626 | Course Light | Come up with a comical college class, along with a description for the course catalog. | W H |
| 625 | Haven't Seen It | Make up a new plot for an existing movie title. | H |
| 624 | Limerixicon 2 | Supply a limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with bd- through bl-. | H |