WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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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. | H |
1217 | Mergers you wrote: Combine two businesses with puns | Give a clever name for a combination of two or more businesses. | 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. | L H |
1049 | Be rating | Come up with a new movie rating and describe it. | H |
932 | We'll call them your-mama jokes | Tell us an original "your mama" joke. | 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? | H |
722 | Let's Play Nopardy! | We supply 12 phrases and you get to provide questions they might answer. The phrases were entries in our Week 717 contest, which asked for Googlenopes -- phrases that showed no previous hits from the Google search engine. | I |
680 | Rendered Speechless | Provide dialogue to fill the balloons in any of these cartoons. | H |
662 | How Low Will You Go? | Humiliate yourself for ink, and a stupid prize. | 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. | 3 |
615 | Airy Persiflage | Write some jokes you'd like to hear in an airport announcement. | 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 |
574 | Boor Us Silly | Come up with some unwise attempts at humor--one either likely to backfire or to create other unpleasant consequences. | L |
526 | Conventional Wisdumb | Answer any of the provided questions. | H |
514 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are your answers. What are the questions? | H |
506 | The Battle of All Mottoes | Provide a slogan for any federal department agency, department, office, etc. | H |
445 | Another Round of Bierce | Add a few entries to Ambrose Bierce's famous "Devil's Dictionary. | H |
428 | No Rest for the Query | Answer any of the provided supposedly unanswerable questions in the voice of any famous person, living or dead. | W |
413 | Bland Ambition | Come up with one or more items from an underachiever's list of midlife resolutions. | 2 |
402 | Spitting the Difference | Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. | H |