| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1617 | Mess With Our Heads | Look at a headline and see a funnier meaning. | H |
| 1612 | Asterisky Business | Put words in Horace's mouth: Tell us a joke that not everyone will get. | H |
| 1611 | Ask Backwards XLIII | We give you the 'answers'; you tell us the questions. | H |
| 1609 | Saved! | Tell us funny ways to be thrifty in these parlous times | H |
| 1608 | Stick It | An election bumper sticker contest | H H |
| 1605 | Get Thee to a Punnery | Change a quote slightly and credit it to someone else. | H |
| 1602 | We Got Game | Tell us some funny ways to 'improve' a sport. | H |
| 1597 | The Farce of July | Give us new ways to celebrate Independence Day. | H |
| 1581 | SOTU-Speak | Use words from Biden's State of the Union speech to write some lines for another oration. | H 2 |
| 1577 | Why the #$%#$% Not? | The Washington Post is looking for some bold ideas -- Let's show it some! | H |
| 1576 | Praise the Lurid! | Give us clickbait headlines for mundane stories. | H H |
| 1575 | The Ughscars and the Phewlitzers | Give us an idea for a bad book or movie. | H H |
| 1573 | The Invitational Week 55: Tour de Fours — Be STUD-ly | Give us a new word or phrase containing 'DUST' in any order of letters. | H |
| 1564 | "Air" "Quotes" | A new forefinger contest | H |
| 1563 | The Perfect(ly Ridiculous) Gift | Offer up some products for people-who-have-everything catalogs. | H H |
| 1444 | It's a whole new all-game | Slightly change the name of a sport, sports event or similar pastime to create a new one, and briefly describe it. | I H H |
| 1385 | Don't you want to see new places? | Change any place name slightly and describe the new place. | H |
| 1361 | 2020 vision -- the year in preview | Name some humorous news event to happen in 2020. | H |
| 1341 | Portmanteautapping from E to R | Coin a portmanteau word beginning with E through R, in which the words overlap by at least two letters, and describe it. | H |
| 1340 | Not-ables -- slightly alter a famous name | Slightly alter the name (make sure the original is obvious) of a famous personage -- past or present, real or fictional -- and describe the resulting nonpersonage, or offer a quote from that person, or both. | H |
| 1334 | Mull 'er over: A search for collision | Combine any two words, names, abbreviations, etc., from anywhere in the redacted Mueller report, in a two-word or hyphenated phrase and define it. | H |
| 1333 | Check your (homo)phones | Invent a homophone--a word that sounds the same as an existing word but is spelled differently--and define it. | H |
| 1331 | Paste Imperfect | Choose a headline or sentence from The Post or another publication, print or online, dated May 9-20, 2019. Then change that headline or other text by: A. Deleting up to 40 consecutive characters from it (put brackets around the deleted text); B. Adding up to 40 consecutive characters from the same article or ad (write the additions in capital letters); or C. Both A and B, as long as the added text goes at the end of your headline or sentence. |
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| 1330 | Spinoff x Time Is Now = Grandfoals Week! | Breed" any two of the 65 foal names that got ink this week, and name the offspring to reflect both parents' names. | H |
| 1307 | One-for-one for all | Replace one letter in an existing word, name or multi-word phrase with one different letter (in the same place in the word) and define or describe the result. | H |
| 1305 | Hits and Googles | Find us either a Googlenope -- a phrase in quotation marks that generates no previous hits -- or a Googleyup, a phrase that surprisingly does have hits. | H |
| 1303 | Neologisms to di- for | Replace a digraph in an existing word or phrase with another digraph to make a new term. | H |
| 1285 | That is so wrong! | Supply a trivia question along with both the correct answer and a cleverly "wrong" guess. | H |
| 1244 | Primed for product reviews | Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon. | H |
| 1220 | O pedantry, O pedantry | Give us some humorous pedantry. | H |
| 1218 | Mess with our -- or anyone else's -- heads | Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in the Post (print or online or another publication dated March 9-20) by writing a bankhead, or subtitle. | H |
| 1205 | Could we just have a do-over? Yes, we could. | Enter (or re-enter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1149 to 1201, except for Week 1152, last year's do-over. | H |
| 1152 | Oops? You do it again. | Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 1098 through Week 1148, except for Week 1101, last year's do-over. | W |
| 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 |
| 1111 | When you riff upon a store | Use a wordplay on a song title as a name or slogan for a real or imagined business. | H |
| 1081 | It's the stupidity, stupid | Write us stupid questions that will make us laugh. | H H |
| 1047 | Bank shots | Quote a headline appearing in The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com or another publication, print or online, dated Nov. 14 to Nov. 25, and supply a humorous "bank" headline that either misinterprets it or comments wryly on it. | H |
| 1001 | Make us ROFL | Give us a funny, original acronym. | H |
| 998 | Set the law on us | Suggest an odd law for a particular place in the world. | H |
| 992 | Mittsterpiece Theatre | Suppose public-TV shows, past or present, were turned out onto the open market to make a living on commercial TV. Tell us what would happen. | 2 |
| 988 | A faster break | Suggest ways to make sports and other leisure activities more time-efficient or exciting. | H |
| 979 | The madding crowd | Suggest funny, original ways to tick people off. | H |
| 973 | A real triple crown | The horses in this week's list either produced no inking "foals" in Week 965, or ran in the Kentucky Derby but weren't on the initial list. "Breed" any two and name the foal. | H |
| 968 | Take us for grants | Come up with a proposal to the National Science Foundation or other research-funding organization for a study based on a stupid hypothesis. | H |
| 960 | Raving reviews | Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon. | H 3 |
| 956 | Give us some bad ideas | Finish any of the provided "You know" phrases. | H |
| 950 | Of all the nerve! | Give us a humorous example of hypothetical chutzpah. | L |
| 949 | Analogies | Give us an analogy using "a is to b as x is to y." | H |
| 944 | Uh, yeah, it's just you | Give us one or more "Is it just me" questions. | 3 |
| 918 | Colt Following | Breed any two "foals" in today's results, or one foal with one of the real horse names used in today's entries--and name the "grandfoal." The name may not exceed 18 characters, including spaces, and your entry shouldn't remotely duplicate any of today's results. | H |
| 908 | Recast away | Fire an actor or actress from a movie or TV show, past or present, and offer a replacement for the role. | H |