WK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK TYPES |
1257 |
The year in redo, Part 1 |
Enter (or re-enter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1203 through Week 1229, except for Weeks 1205 and 1206. |
H H |
1256 |
Picture this -- a caption contest |
Provide a funny caption for any of the provided cartoons. |
H |
1253 |
Fashion x fiction: More fake trivia |
Tell us some totally bogus trivia about clothing or fashion. |
H |
1249 |
Ask Backwards 36 |
Choose any of the 15 provided items and follow it with a question that it could humorously answer. |
H H |
1245 |
Call us reprehensible … |
Complain in a humorously missing-the-point way about something that has appeared in The Washington Post (in print or online) recently, or in another publication. |
W |
1242 |
Generation Yux |
Give us a "then/now" joke. |
4 |
1239 |
MASH 3 |
Combine two movie titles and describe the result. |
H |
1233 |
Not |
The Loser Community gets a week off (actually two) from writing contest entries and will have to find something else to do during staff meetings, sermons, romantic breakups, etc. |
H |
1227 |
Celebrate ortho-diversity! |
Name and describe a new life form -- and no letter in the term may be used twice. |
H H |
1224 |
We beg you to differ |
Explain how any two (or more) items in the provided list are the same or different, or otherwise connected. |
H |
1221 |
Who's kidding whom? |
Take two people from history, past or present, and tell what their child would be like |
H |
1217 |
Mergers you wrote: Combine two businesses with puns |
Give a clever name for a combination of two or more businesses. |
H |
1178 |
A ______ of collective nouns |
Propose one or more funny new names for groups of things. |
L |
1157 |
Clue us in -- a backward crossword |
Supply clever, funny clues to up to 25 of the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. |
H |
1141 |
Mess with our heads |
Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in the Post (print or online) Sept. 17-28 by writing a bankhead, or subtitle. |
H |
1140 |
You're giving us a bad name |
Cite a REAL brand name, past or present, note its original use, and then say what sort of product, organization, etc., that name would be bad for. |
H |
1138 |
Show us your touché |
Offer an elegantly snide (and original) insult of anyone living or dead. |
2 |
1134 |
The 'Sty'le Invitational Red'ux' |
Put quotation marks around part of a word, name or phrase and define the result. |
H |
1094 |
TAXI's the fare for Tour de Fours XI |
Coin a word or hyphenated term that contains the letter block T-A-X-I; the letters may be in any order, but there may be no other letters between them. |
H |
1088 |
Ask backwards with our answers, your questions |
Supply the questions to as many of the 16 supplied answers as you like. |
H |
1072 |
The Tile Invitational |
Come up with a 5-, 6-, or 7-letter term by scrambling any of the provided seven-letter ScrabbleGram sets, and define it. |
H |
1059 |
With parens like these … |
Add some words in parentheses to a well-known song title to make it funnier in some way. |
H |
1055 |
Oh, K! |
This week, to commemorate both Kevin Dopart and his 1K ink blots: Change a word, phrase or name by adding one or more K's, and define your new term. |
H H H |
1045 |
Songs for the asking |
Take a sentence, phrase or title from a song and provide a funny question it might answer. |
H |
1042 |
Tour de Fours X: Go SANE |
Create a new word or two-word term containing the letter block S-A-N-E -- in any order, but consecutively, and define it. |
H |
1038 |
It's like this, see |
Answer a simple question with a ridiculously argued answer citing various connections and parallels. |
3 |
1034 |
What's to like? |
Supply an original joke of the form "I like my [your choice] the way I like my [something else of your choice]: [some clever, funny parallel]." |
H |
1031 |
The 'Sty'le Invitational |
Choose any word, name, or short term; emphasize a key, suddenly pertinent part of it with quotation marks; then redefine the word. |
H |
1014 |
Join now |
Combine the beginning and end, or the beginnings and ends, of any two words in single Washington Post story or ad published March 21 to April 1 into a new word or two-word phrase, and define the result. |
H H |
1010 |
Picture this |
Write a caption for any of the five provided cartoons. |
H H |
1007 |
Clue us in |
Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. |
H H H |
1002 |
Wring out the OED |
Make up a false definition for any of the listed OED words. |
H |
997 |
Unworthy causes |
Name a dubious charity and describe its mission. |
H |
995 |
Ask backwards |
We give you the "answers" and you supply jokes in the form of a question. |
H H H |
993 |
Versus, verses |
Write a short "rap battle" between any two characters, real or fictional. |
H |
991 |
Tour de Fours IX |
Create a new word or two-word term containing the letter block V, O, T, and E and define it. |
H |
990 |
Indecent relations |
Pair two people, real or fictional, who have the same last name; say how they're alike or different, or something they might do (even in fantasy), as a pair. |
2 |
989 |
On the double |
Come up with a double or multiple profession, and explain how each job complements the other(s). |
2 H |
953 |
Clue us in |
Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms in the crossword puzzle that's already run in The Post. |
H |
947 |
Tour de Fours VIII: Neologisms |
Come up with a new word or two-word term that includes the letter block N-O-E-L, in any order but with no other letters between them, and define it. |
H |
946 |
Another round of Bierce |
Write a clever definition of a word, name or multi-word term. |
H |
942 |
Singular ideas |
Give us an idea for a contest for which there's likely only one good entry. |
H H H |
941 |
They don't say! |
Give us a quote that a particular person, present or past, real or fictional, sooo wouldn't have said. |
H |
916 |
Bank shots |
Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from April 22 through May 2 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. |
H |
915 |
Picture this |
Write a caption for any of the cartoons pictured here. |
P |
904 |
We move on back |
Move the first letter in a word or name to the end of that word and define the resulting word. |
H W |
805 |
Brand Eccchs |
Give us an original name in any of the above categories (not an actual badly named product). |
H |
801 |
Ask Backwards |
You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. You supply one or more of the questions. |
H |
800 |
Compairison |
Briefly define or sum up an existing word or short phrase, then change it very slightly and do the same with the result. |
H |
798 |
Dead Letters |
Write a humorous poem commemorating someone who died in 2008. |
H |
796 |
Sincerest Flattery |
Make up a pun on a familiar name of a real of fictional person and provide a fitting description or quote. |
H |
795 |
Stimulate Us |
Tell us what the government ought to be spending our money on. |
H H |
794 |
Ripped Off From the Headlines |
Send us some Onion-type headlines. |
H |
790 |
If Only! |
Explain how the world would be different had some event not occurred. |
H H |
789 |
Doctrine in The House? |
State a humorous, original "doctrine" for a person or other entity. |
H |
787 |
Tour de Fours V |
Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order -- the letters M, I, N and E. |
H H |
317 |
PICK US A WINNER |
Come up with flawed contest ideas, and the single, obvious, too-good-to-beat entry. |
3 |
277 |
LIFE IN THE BLURBS |
Come up a simple plot summary to help attract the modern audience to any classic work of fiction. It must be literally true and defensible. |
H |
276 |
SPIT THE DIFFERENCE |
Tell us the difference between any two of the provided items. |
H |
268 |
WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? |
Take the names of this year's Triple Crown nominees, mate any two of them, a propose a name for the foal. The foal's name must be contained in 18 characters, including spaces. |
H H |
106 |
DRAWING CONCLUSIONS |
Who are these people, and what are they doing? |
H |
86 |
EXCUSES, EXCUSES |
Come up with funny excuses for various malfeasances. |
L |