WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	INK Types
676	Tour de Fours III	Coin and define a word containing -- with no other letters between them, but in any order you like -- the letters L, E, A and F.	H
622	Our Sunday Constitutional	Write a new article or amendment to the Constitution, using on the words contained in the existing document (including amendments).	H
619	WordCount Us In	Write a poem of no more than four lines containing four or more consecutive words on the WordCount list. They must occur in the sentence in the order they appear on the list.	H
613	Tour de Fours II	Create and define a word that includes, consecutively, E, R, A and N. in any order.	H
611	Ask Backwards, Erudite Edition	You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the sophisticated answers. You supply the questions.	H
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
607	Contest Fodder Created!	Produce absurdly parochial views of historical events.	H
606	The News Could be Verse	Translate the fine prose of Washington Post articles into verse. Choose any article appearing in The Post of on its Web site from April 17 through April 25.	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 H
598	Site Gags	Come up with an appropriate name for a cafeteria--or meeting room, or an employee lounge, or some other workplace spot--for a particular institution.	H
594	History Loves Company	Name an appropriate corporate sponsor for some historical event or for someone's life story.	H
590	Send Us the Bill	Come up with a bill sponsored by any combination of the newly elected members of Congress and explain the purpose of the bill.	3
589	Hyphen the Terrible (New Edition!)	Combine the beginning of any multi-syllabic word in this week's Invitational with the end of any other multi-syllabic word in this column (or in this week's Web supplement) to coin a new word, and then define it.	H
585	It's Parody Time	Offer, in the holiday spirit of goodwill, some advice--as constructive and unifying as Loserly suggestions always are--to our nation's leaders (or the loyal opposition) as we prepare for the next four years. This advice will be set to the tune of some winter holiday song, either religious or secular.	H
580	United Nations	Combine the names of any two countries in the world and describe the new hybrid country.	H
467	Get Your But in Here	Produce a line that fits this structure: (Real thing based upon current events) is (word or phrase suggesting some quality) but (other word or phrase suggesting a dissimilar or incompatible quality), like (funny analogy).	H
464	Cursive Writing	Come up with a new curse for this millennium.	H
458	It's a Setup	Come up with joke setups for any of the provided punch lines.	H
454	Ask Backwards	You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions?	H
452	Russellmania!	(1) Design one or more steps for a 12-step program for the recovering Invitationalaholic; (2) Propose a devious method by which we might lure Russell Beland back.	H
449	Cut and Pastiche	Create a new, funny headline from the words of any headlines appearing anywhere in today's Post. You cannot subdivide words.	H
440	Picture This	What is going on in these cartoons?	H
438	What's the Pun Line?	Ask a question and answer it, somewhere incorporating the name of a least one famous person.	H
380	The New-Name Offense	Propose changes for the names of places and things that need it, either because there is something wrong with their name, or because another name would be so much more descriptive.	H
379	Rather Unusual	Come up with lines that could be uttered by Dan Rather, with his unbearably folksy excesses.	H
376	Apply Yourself	Supply bad openings to college application biographies.	H
370	No End in Sight	Write the beginnings of sentences you don't want to hear the end of.	H

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