| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 893 | Give us a hint | Write a humorously witty story in 25 words or fewer. | H |
| 795 | Stimulate Us | Tell us what the government ought to be spending our money on. | H |
| 740 | Give Us a Hint | Offer clues in various situations that something isn't working out well. | H |
| 733 | Just Drop It, Okay? | Drop the first letter from an actual word or term to make a new word or term, and define it. | 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 |
| 664 | A Thousand Times?! No! | Come up with a new signature line for Russell Beland's -- or anyone else's -- e-mails. | H |
| 652 | Ask Backward | You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. You supply the questions. | H |
| 651 | Show Us Some Character | Add a character to a book or movie and tell us what happens in it. | T |
| 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 |
| 640 | Whassa Motto Wid You? | Give us a slogan or motto for any of the states, the District or the U.S. Territories. | H |
| 639 | What's the Small Idea? | Do you have a senseless idea for improving the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans? | H |
| 631 | Picture This | What's going on in any of these cartoons? | H |
| 528 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H H |
| 516 | Err Apparent | Come up with unwise things to say in any of the provided circumstances. | H |
| 489 | Combo, First Blood | Combine two people whose names contain a common element, as in the examples above. Then describe the person, or provide a quote he or she might have uttered. | H |
| 465 | Hyphen the Terrible | Take the first half of any word or word combination in today's Post that is broken by a hyphen at the end of a line, and combine it with the second half of any other hyphenated word from the same story, and define the new word that is formed. | 3 |
| 462 | Cast Away | Come up with a terrible bit of miscasting in a movie or TV show, past or present, real or imagined. | T |
| 457 | Letter Rip | Give us the beginning of a letter to the editor that is certain never to see print. | W H |
| 278 | THE STALE INVITATIONAL | Begin with a word. Add, subtract or change a single letter only, and then provide a new definition. | H |
| 238 | CHALK IT UP TO STUPIDITY | Propose apologies for yourself in the style of Bart Simpson writing on his blackboard. | H |
| 177 | SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE | Tell us what any of the provided sounds are. | 5 |
| 97 | NEWTONIAN PHILOSOPHY | Come up with more Newt Gingrich philosophy to explain the differences between men and women, Democrats and Republicans, dogs and cats, whatever needs explaining. | H |
| 34 | INSPECT A GADGET | What do these machines do? | H |