WK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK TYPES |
1011 |
Top these! |
Try your hand at any of the contests mentioned in this look back. |
H H |
971 |
Double booking |
Come up with a double book with a humorous connection; the first title must be an actual book, while the other may be your own fictitious title or a second real book. |
H H |
970 |
Couple it |
Take a line from any well-known poem and pair it with your own second line to make a humorous couplet. |
H |
878 |
Safety in blunders |
Tell us a way to make the nation more secure. |
H |
877 |
Quipped from the headlines |
Write a rhyming couplet about some matter in the news. |
H |
876 |
Oilies but goodies |
Write lyrics somehow related to the oil spill, set to an existing tune. |
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 |
863 |
It's Post time |
Breed any two of 100 of the almost 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races, and name the foal. |
3 H |
860 |
Ten, Anyone? |
Humorously define or describe something or someone in exactly 10 words. |
3 H H |
845 |
Reologisms |
Write a description for any of 50 genuine Loser-created neologisms. |
H |
843 |
Prefrains |
Provide a sentence or two of lead-in to the first line of a well-known book, poem, or song. |
H |
842 |
Ask backwards |
Here are your 12 possible answers. Tell us your joke in the form of a question, please. |
H |
840 |
Frittering away the neurons |
Give us some more colorfully useful phrases; they don't have to be in the X'ing-the-Y form. |
H |
836 |
Other People's Business |
Describe what might happen if any of the above institutions (a) were run by an institution of your choice or (b) ran an institution of your choice. |
H |
831 |
A Big To-Do |
Name a "bucket list" item for a well-known real or fictional character. |
3 |
830 |
Mess With Our Heads |
Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from Aug. 14 through Aug. 24 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. |
H H H |
828 |
Inhuman Puns |
Make a pun on the name of a familiar group, organization or company, and describe it or provide a quote from it. |
H H |
824 |
Jestinations |
Give us a slogan for any city or town. |
H H |
823 |
Wryku |
Compose a humorous (or at least wry or clever) haiku. |
H |
811 |
Rock-Bottom Lines |
Tell us a sign that the economy couldn't get worse. |
H H |
810 |
What Kind of Foal Am I? |
Breed any two of the more than 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races and provide an appropriate name for their foal. |
H |
806 |
DQ Very Much |
Give us a phrase or sentence that would nip a potential relationship in the bud (or elsewhere). |
2 |
805 |
Brand Eccchs |
Give us an original name in any of the above categories (not an actual badly named product). |
W |
803 |
The Pepys Show |
Write a humorous diary or journal entry for someone, famous or not, for any point in history. |
3 |
801 |
Ask Backwards |
You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. You supply one or more of the questions. |
H H |
799 |
Send Us the Bill |
Come up with legislation that, given their names, two or more freshman senators or representatives might sponsor together. |
H |
797 |
Be Resolute |
Make a humorous resolution for some particular person or institution to accomplish next year. |
2 H |
792 |
Clue Us In |
Compile a set of funny alternative clues to a crossword penned by Ace Constructor Paula Gamache. |
H |
785 |
The Ballad Box |
Write a short, humorous song somehow relating to the presidential campaign, set to a familiar tune. |
H |
784 |
Words to The Wiseacres |
Give us some proverbs for 21st-century life. |
H |
780 |
Location, Location, Location |
Say how you know you're in a particular place. |
H |
779 |
Gripe for the Picking |
Rant about any issue that wouldn't make your top 100 for airing in The Post. |
H |
777 |
Limerixicon 5 |
Supply a humorous limerick featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters da-. |
H |
776 |
An Act of Sunny Side |
Note the silver lining in some otherwise disappointing turn of events. |
H |
770 |
A Knack for Anachronism |
Take a famous historical moment, literary passage, or movie scene and place it in an entirely different age. |
H |
768 |
The Events Described Herein Are Entirely Fictitious |
Come up with fictitious movie trivia. |
H H H H |
763 |
Another Time Around the Track |
Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name THEIR foal. |
H |
759 |
What Kind of Foal Am I? |
Breed any two of the 100 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown and provide an appropriate name for their foal. |
H H H W |
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 H H |
747 |
Boeing Us Silly |
Suggest some comical ways to improve air travel, either in general or for yourself. |
H |
746 |
We Err The World |
Give us a motto or short slogan for any country in the world. |
H H |
742 |
Clue Us In |
Give us a whole new set of clues to a crossword puzzle penned by Ace Constructor Paula Gamache. |
H H H |
739 |
Lies, All Lies |
Give us some humorous fictional revelation about a current or past political figure. |
H |
725 |
Beggars For Description |
Describe, without being boring, a cartoon to fit any of the provided captions. |
H W |
708 |
What Kind of Foal Am I? |
Breed any two from a list of 100 of the horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races and provide an appropriate name for their foal. |
H H H |
694 |
Hopelessly Ever After |
Offer up a gloomy interpretation of any ungloomy piece of writing. |
W |
691 |
Haven't Got a Clue |
Make all the clues in the provided crossword ooh-clever or at least ah-that's-funny, even the little words. |
H |
681 |
Ticket to Write |
Write a jingle for a business (or its product), organization or government agency, set to a Beatles song. |
H |
680 |
Rendered Speechless |
Provide dialogue to fill the balloons in any of these cartoons. |
H H |
674 |
Limerixicon 3 |
Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with ca-. |
H |
296 |
BILL US LATER |
Choose among the names of any of the newly elected U.S. senators or representatives and propose a bill they might sponsor. |
H |