| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1499 | Picture This, a cartoon caption contest | Write a caption, eiher descriptive or in dialogue, for any of the provided cartoons. | T |
| 879 | Say Venn | Express some sentiment in the form of a Venn diagram. | H |
| 876 | Oilies but goodies | Write lyrics somehow related to the oil spill, set to an existing tune. | H |
| 794 | Ripped Off From the Headlines | Send us some Onion-type headlines. | H H |
| 756 | Mess With Our Heads | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from March 15 through 24 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. | H |
| 735 | Look Back in Inker | Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 680 through Week 731. | H H H |
| 726 | Limerixicon 4 | Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary beginning with cl- through co-. | T |
| 723 | Name Your Poison | Create a name and recipe for a cocktail and, if you like, describe when it might be served. | H |
| 721 | Know Your Market | For any of the provided photos, supply two captions: one that would appeal to The Style Invitational and one that would appeal to the Harrisburg Patriot-News. | H 3 |
| 715 | Your Mug Here | Send us an idea for a slogan for the back of the new Loser T-shirt. | 1 |
| 706 | Questionable Journalism | Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from March 24 through April 2 and come up with a question it could answer. | T |
| 702 | Unreal Facts | Come up with a comically false factoid. | H |
| 701 | Untitlement | Here are the covers for what just might be Bob Staake's next four books. What are they called and what are they about? | M H |
| 685 | Thank it Over | Tell us some things to be thankful for. | 1 |
| 675 | Cut Us Some Slack | Come up with humorous ways to be lazy. | H |
| 674 | Limerixicon 3 | Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with ca-. | T |
| 669 | Huddled Messes | Suggest some bad advice for new arrivals to this country (legal or illegal). | 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. | H |
| 648 | Caller IDiot | Name a product or company and supply a stupid question to ask the consumer hotline person. | P |
| 637 | Full Steam Ahead | Write a steamy passage of a novel that's ostensibly by some well-known person who isn't a novelist. | 3 |
| 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. | 1 |
| 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. | H |
| 633 | Your Secret Here! | Send us some original secrets (they don't have to be true). | H |
| 618 | Of D.C. I Sing | Give us a song about Washington, set to a recognizable tune. | 3 |
| 616 | Picture This, Kids | Supply title and one-sentence synopsis for Bob Staake new kids' project, incorporating any of the provided cartoons. | 2 |
| 615 | Airy Persiflage | Write some jokes you'd like to hear in an airport announcement. | 3 |
| 610 | MASH | Find two well-known movies, plays, or TV shows whose title have a significant word in common, combine their titles, and describe the hybrid. | 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 |
| 601 | Anticdotes | Give us an untrue anecdote in response to one of the provided Editor's Query topics. | P |
| 597 | Eccchsibits | Come up with some alternative museums and exhibits for the nation's capital. | H |
| 596 | Take Her Words for It | Use the words of this week's Ask Amy advice column, as a pool from which to compose your own useful (or useless) thoughts. You may ignore or change capitalization or punctuation. | H 2 |
| 595 | Listing Precariously | Take the two subject listings at the top of any page of the Yellow Pages and create a dictionary definition for the compound word they form. | H H 2 |
| 594 | History Loves Company | Name an appropriate corporate sponsor for some historical event or for someone's life story. | H |
| 587 | The B-List | Come up with an In-Out list for 2005, or other pairings. | H |
| 581 | Evil Things in Store | Think of evil or just plain stupid practices that the staff of a retail or other establishment might perpetrate. | H |
| 580 | United Nations | Combine the names of any two countries in the world and describe the new hybrid country. | H H |
| 576 | Well, Excuuuuse Us! | Come up with new excuses for any common human shortcoming or imperfection. | H H H |
| 571 | A Tour de Fours | Create and define a word that includes T, H, E, and S in any order. The letters must appear consecutively. | L |
| 569 | Murphy's Lore | Give Eric Murphy advice he deserves on the provided questions. | I H |
| 565 | Anthem Is as Anthem Does | Give us a verse for an alternative U.S. national anthem, set to any well-known tune. | H H |
| 563 | Take Two | Take any two of the provided items and explain how they resemble or differ from each other. | H |
| 559 | Your Slogan Here | Come up with a clever slogan or sign for a business. | W H |
| 557 | Oh, for Namesakes! | Take two people, real or fictional, who share some element of their names and explain the difference between them. | H |