| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1608 | Stick It | An election bumper sticker contest | H |
| 1602 | We Got Game | Tell us some funny ways to 'improve' a sport. | H |
| 1590 | All You Need Is Ink | Take a line from a Beatles song and rhyme it with your own. | H |
| 1586 | Pun for the Roses | Our annual crazy-popular horse 'breeding' wordplay contest. | H |
| 1574 | Oh, Grandpa, Stop! | Turn a 'dad joke' into a less-tame 'grandpa joke' | H |
| 1570 | The Invitational, Week 52: Replaying Around -- The 2023 retrospective, Part II | Enter or reenter our Week 26-50. | H H |
| 1569 | Look Back in Inker -- Our 2023 retrospective, Part 1 | Enter or reenter our Week 1-25 contests. | H |
| 1530 | Mess With Our Heads | Reinterpret any headline by adding a 'bank head'. | H |
| 1520 | Nextra! Nextra! | Read All About it. Predict the big news events of 2023 | H |
| 1501 | Try a little 'kindness' | Tell about an “act of kindness” that you or someone else does that, well, won’t be appreciated. | H |
| 1497 | The if-word | Give us a "what if" scenario and its humorous result | H |
| 1491 | The add biz | Choose any word, name or phrase beginning with A throough E, then add any single letter of the alphabet to it -- one or more times -- and define the result or show how it would be used. | P |
| 1486 | No can do: Signs of incompetence | Give us a clue that someone was incompetent in a given field. | H H |
| 1484 | Two ways about it | What's something (printable) you could say in two -- or more -- of the provided situations. | P |
| 1477 | Thinking outside the big box | Send us a humorous "review" for any of the provided items listed on walmart.com<\em>. | H |
| 1474 | Hyphen the Terrible | Combine one side of a hyphenated word or phrase with one side of another such term -- either side can be the end or the beginning -- to create a new term. AND! Both halves of the term must come from the same issue of a newspaper (The Post or another one) or published the same day on its website, Feb. 3 through 14. | H |
| 1467 | The Year in Redo, Part 1 | Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1413 through 1439, except for Weeks 1414-1416. | H |
| 1456 | The hunting of the snark | Ask an insulting rhetorical question in the form (or a variation) of "Is that your _______ or _______? | P |
| 1436 | Haven't seen it: Fun with movie titles | Misinterpret a movie title in a supposed plot description. | T |
| 1425 | Picture this -- a caption contest | Write a caption, either descriptive or in dialogue, for any of the provided cartoons. | H |
| 1422 | The Collaboratory | Think of a book, movie or song title. Then pair its creator, star, singer, etc., with an unrelated "collaborator" to produce a wordplay on the title. | H |
| 1416 | The Year in Redo, Part 2 | Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1388 through 1412. | H |
| 1402 | The fourteeners--a neologism contest | Make up a word whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 14 (no blanks!), and define it. | M |
| 1400 | Back on track with our classic 'foal' contest | Breed" any two of the provided names of the 100 horses nominated for the 2020 Triple Crown races and name the "foal" to humorously reflect the parents' names. | H |
| 1395 | Add nauseam: A plus-one contest | Add a "plus one" to some familiar numerical grouping, true or fictional | H |
| 1394 | Two movies, one line | Cite a real or coined line, or give a description, that could work for two different movies, plays or TV shows. | H |
| 1393 | Second chance (acned conches?) for anagrams | Describe any of the provided anagram businesses, or offer its slogan. | H |
| 1392 | Picture this -- caption these cartoons | Write a caption, either descriptive or in dialogue, for any of the provided Bob Staake cartoons. | H |
| 1375 | Mess With Our Heads | Reinterpret an actual headline (or a major part of it) by adding a bank head, or subtitle. | H |
| 1364 | Clue us in | Supply clever, funny clues for as many as 25 of the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. | M H |
| 1353 | What's playing at the retroplex | Change a movie title to its "opposite" by reversing one or more words; then describe the new movie. | H |
| 1339 | Songs for a modern error | Write humorous lyrics about some modern woe, set to a familiar tune. | P |
| 1335 | Put it in bee-verse! Or . . . | Write a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer that includes at least one of the provided words, used in Round 9 or later of this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee; OR: write a joke in Q&A form that uses at least one of the words. | 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 |
| 1327 | Mess with our (or anyone's) heads | Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline (or a big part of a headline) by writing a bank head, or subtitle. | H |
| 1325 | Stand up and jeer | Give us some original standup jokes that would have been good at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner. | 2 |
| 1323 | Selected shortened subjects | Delete one or more letters from the beginning or end (or both) of a movie title and describe the resulting movie. | P |
| 1310 | The Year in Redo, Part 2 | Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1282 through Week 1306. | H |
| 1309 | The Year in Redo, Part 1 | Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1255 through Week 1281. | H |
| 1297 | A different type o' headline contest | Change a letter in an article or ad in the Post or another publication dated Sept. 13-24 by adding or subtracting one letter; substituting a letter; transposing two letters; or changing spacing or punctuation; and then add a "bank head. | H H |
| 1294 | As the word turns | “Discover” a word or multiword term that consists of adjacent letters — in any direction or several directions — in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition. | H |
| 1285 | That is so wrong! | Supply a trivia question along with both the correct answer and a cleverly "wrong" guess. | W |
| 1276 | What 4? A limerick contest | Use a limerick using one of the provided lines as Line 5. | L |
| 1260 | What lies (are) ahead for 2018 | Jokingly predict some news event to happen in 2018. | 4 |
| 1255 | Tour de Fours XIV: SANT is coming | Coin a word or multi-word term that contains the letter-block S-A-N-T; the letters may be in any order, but there may be no other letters between them. | H |
| 1247 | Script tease | Offer a quote from a script whose title you've given a different plot. | H |
| 1243 | We bid you: No T-R-U-M-P | Coin a new term, or choose an existing one, whose letters do not include a T, R, U, M, or P, and write a humorous definition. | H |
| 1228 | That movie is SO about you | Name someone who was the "secret inspiration" for a certain movie. | H |
| 1217 | Mergers you wrote: Combine two businesses with puns | Give a clever name for a combination of two or more businesses. | H |
| 1211 | The best tweets in history | Write a stupidly disparaging tweet (140 characters or fewer, including spaces) about some laudable figure of past or present, true or fictional. | I |
| 1207 | Clue us in -- a reverse crossword | Supply clever, funny clues to up to 25 of the 72 words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. | H 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 |
| 1203 | You've got the powers | Tell us what you would do if you had one or more of the six magical powers provided. | H |
| 1197 | Picture This -- It's a Bob Staake caption contest | Write a caption for any of the cartoons provided. | H |
| 1191 | Mess with our heads | Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in The Post (print or online) and dated Sept. 1-12 by writing a bank head, or subtitle | H |
| 1187 | Just drop it, okay? | Drop the last letter from an existing word, phrase or name and define the result. | H |
| 1185 | The Rorschach of the crowd | Interpret one of more of the provided genuine inkblots. You may look at them upside down or sideways. | H |
| 1183 | C'mon, be honest with us | Write something in roughly the form "If X were more honest, (then) Y. | 4 |
| 1171 | What's my (next) line? | Take a line from any song and pair it with your own second line to make a humorous rhyming couplet; the second line should match the rhythm of the first, rather than the second line of the song itself. | H H |
| 1165 | B all you can B | Change a word, phrase or name by adding one or more B's, and/or by replacing one or more letters with B's, and define your new term. | H |
| 1162 | An 8-year Re-Onion | Write a fictional Onion-type headline. | H |
| 1160 | A remeaning task | Redefine an existing word or two-word term beginning with P through Z. | H 2 |
| 1155 | Vowel movement | Choose a title of a book, movie, play or TV show; drop all the vowels (including Y when it's used as a vowel); then add your choice of vowels -- as many as you like -- to create a new work; and describe it. | H 3 |
| 1146 | Stick it to us with a magnet | Suggest a new Style Invitational honorable-mention magnet. | W |
| 1134 | The 'Sty'le Invitational Red'ux' | Put quotation marks around part of a word, name or phrase and define the result. | H |
| 1129 | Right in the pampootie | Write a humorous short poem (eight lines or fewer) incorporating one of the 50 provided words. | H |
| 1122 | Colt Following: 'Grandfoals' | Breed" any two of the 65 foal names that got ink this week and name the offspring to reflect the parents' names. | H |
| 1115 | Our type o' headline | Change a headline in an article or ad in the Washington Post and then add a "bank head" or subtitle. | H H |
| 1106 | Show your resolve | Suggest a New Year's resolution that someone might make 100 or more years in the future. | H |
| 1105 | A lit obit of fun | Write a humorous poem of no longer than eight lines about someone who died in 2014. | H |
| 1103 | Themes good enough for us | Suggest an existing song to be used as the theme for a TV series or program for comic effect. | M |
| 1099 | Questionable journalism | Take a sentence (or most of a sentence) that appears in an article in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com dated Nov. 20 through Dec. 1 (in print, any article from those days' papers), and make up a question that the sentence could answer. | H |
| 1088 | Ask backwards with our answers, your questions | Supply the questions to as many of the 16 supplied answers as you like. | H |
| 1082 | Band on the pun | Alter the name of a music group or performer slightly -- not necessarily by just one letter, but enough so it's obvious what the original is -- and describe it in some way. | H |
| 1068 | An iffy proposition | Suggest some humorous action that you would take if you were in someone's position, more or less in the form "If I were _____ my first act would be _____. | H |
| 1066 | It's mating season | Breed" any two from the provided list of 100 of the 3-year-old racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown and name the foal to reflect both names. | H |
| 1065 | The ands have it | Slightly alter ANY well-known phrase in the form "A-and-B" -- it doesn't have to be Latinate/Anglo-Saxon -- and define it. | H H |
| 1050 | Just redo it | Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 1000 through Week 1046. | 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 |
| 1037 | Outrage us | Find something offensive about an inoffensive name of a product, organization, place, etc. | H |
| 1029 | Ditty Harry | Write a descriptive theme song for a well-known movie, set to a well-known tune. | T |
| 1025 | In so many words | Create an original backronym for a name or other term, especially one that's been in the news lately. | H H |
| 1016 | Foaling around | Breed any two of the horses nominated for this year's Triple Crown races and give the foal a name humorously reflecting the names of the parents. | T |
| 1012 | The news at 5 | Write a limerick about a recent news event. | H |
| 1011 | Top these! | Try your hand at any of the contests mentioned in this look back. | H |
| 1010 | Picture this | Write a caption for any of the five provided cartoons. | H |
| 1008 | Switched reels | Re-arrange all the words in the title of a movie, and describe the resulting work. | H |
| 1007 | Clue us in | Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. | H |
| 1004 | Dead letters | Write a humorous poem about anyone who died in 2012. | H |
| 1002 | Wring out the OED | Make up a false definition for any of the listed OED words. | H |
| 1000 | We now have 4 digits; you now have 7 letters | Choose any word, name or two-word term beginning anywhere from T through Z; then add one letter, drop one letter, substitute one letter for another, or transpose two adjacent letters, and define the result. | H |
| 995 | Ask backwards | We give you the "answers" and you supply jokes in the form of a question. | H |
| 994 | Stick it to us | Suggest a slogan for one of our two new honorable-mention Loser Magnets for 2012-2013. | 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. | H |
| 987 | Bank shots | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 6 through Sept. 17 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle. | 3 |
| 986 | Hear here! | Give us a sentence or short dialogue that would be a lot funnier if a word in it were mistaken for a homophone of that word. | 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 |
| 969 | Colt following | Breed any two "foals" in today's results, and name the grandfoal. | H |
| 962 | Questionable journalism | Take any sentence (or a major part of it) that appears in the Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com anytime from now through March 19 and supply a question it could answer. | H |
| 948 | Look back in Inker | Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 891 through 945 (except for Week 896, which was the same contest for the previous year). | 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 |
| 939 | MASH 2: The Retread | Combine two movie titles and describe the result. | H |
| 925 | A remeaning task | Redefine a word in the dictionary beginning with I through O. | H |
| 919 | Good Luck With 13 | Alter a 13-letter word, phrase or name by one letter (add a letter, drop a letter, switch two letters somewhere in the word, or substitute one letter for another) and describe the result. | H |
| 917 | Wryku | Write a haiku--a sentiment that can be broken into three lines with exactly five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third--on any subject that's been in the news in the last couple of weeks. | 4 |
| 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 |
| 907 | Naming rite | Come up with a creative, somehow fitting sponsor for some public facility or part of one. | M |
| 906 | Your mug here | Give us a new design for the Loser Mug. | W |
| 902 | What's the good news? | Take any sentence, or substantive part of a sentence, or a headline from an article or ad in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com from Jan. 7 to Jan. 18 and make it sound upbeat (or not so bad). | 2 |
| 899 | Clue us in | Send us funny, clever clues for any of the words already in this grid. | H |
| 896 | 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 |
| 895 | Picture this | Supply a caption for any of these cartoons. | 2 |
| 894 | Look Back in Inker | Enter any Style Invitational from Week 841 through Week 890 (except for Week 844). | H |
| 881 | What's in a name? | Take the name of a person or institution. Find within it a hidden message. | H |
| 873 | Back to Square 1A | Replace the shaded letters in this grid with your own letters to come up with a different word or phrase -- either an existing word or one you make up -- and define it humorously. | H H H |
| 869 | Clue us in | Send us funny, clever clues for any of the words already in this grid. | H H |
| 853 | It's easy as DEF | Create a brand-new word or phrase that contains a block of three successive letters in the alphabet; the series must go forward in the alphabet, not backward. | H |
| 850 | Dead letters | Write a humorous poem about someone who died in 2009. | P |
| 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 |
| 818 | Name the Day | Cite an actual holiday or one of those silly commemorative days, weeks or months for which you can find previous evidence, and supply a snarky description or slogan. | H |
| 812 | Rx-Related Humor | Offer up some entirely false medical or psychological "fact. | H |
| 809 | Unkindest Cutlines | Supply cutlines, or captions, for any of these newspaper photos. | H |
| 801 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. You supply one or more of the questions. | H H |
| 790 | If Only! | Explain how the world would be different had some event not occurred. | 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. | P |
| 781 | Our Greatest Hit | Start with a word or multi-word term that begins with I, J, K or L; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word. | H |
| 766 | Think to Shudder | Come up with scenarios that are even more awkward (and more imaginative) than the wincers mentioned above. | 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. | M |
| 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 |
| 754 | Canny Similarities | Cite a humorous "uncanny similarity" between any two of the very different people listed above. | H |
| 741 | Well, What Do You Know? | Tell us what Major Life Lessons can be derived from any of these venues or situations. | H |
| 736 | So, Should I Drive Like Your Brother? | Ask a car-related question that would make the Car Guys crack up. If you're not into cars, you can also post a question for advice columnist Ask Amy or etiquette columnist Miss Manners. | H |
| 735 | Look Back in Inker | Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 680 through Week 731. | H |
| 734 | Turnaround Time | Write a rhyming couplet containing two words that are anagrams of each other. | 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 H |
| 729 | Otherwordly Visions | Take any sentence in an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 1 through Sept. 10 and translate it into "plain English. | H |
| 724 | Abridged Too Far | Sum up a book, play or movie in a humorous rhyming verse of two to four lines. | H |
| 717 | Pitch Us a No-Hitter | Send us some genuine Googlenopes. A Googlenope is a phrase or very brief sentence that, entered into the Google search engine with quotation marks around it, produces no hits. | H |
| 699 | Our Greatest Hit | Take a word, term or name that begins with E, F, G or H; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word. | H |
| 697 | We Beg You To Differ | Take any two items from the truly random provided list and explain why they are different or why they are similar. | H |
| 692 | Reinkernation | Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 640 through Week 688. Every entry must include the word "three" or "third" or a creative variation. | H 2 |
| 680 | Rendered Speechless | Provide dialogue to fill the balloons in any of these cartoons. | 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 |
| 670 | A Test of Character | Change a word or phrase by only one letter -- substitute one letter for another, add a letter or transpose two letters -- and explain how they are different or similar. | H |
| 667 | Questionable Journalism | Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com anytime from now through June 26 and supply a question it could answer. | H |
| 664 | A Thousand Times?! No! | Come up with a new signature line for Russell Beland's -- or anyone else's -- e-mails. | W |
| 662 | How Low Will You Go? | Humiliate yourself for ink, and a stupid prize. | H |
| 635 | I've Told You a Hundred Times | Enter any Style Invitational from Week 536 to Week 631. Your entry must be substantially different from the original winners. | H |
| 634 | Mess With Our Heads | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from today through next Sunday, and change its meaning by adding either a "bank headline," or subtitle, or the first sentence of an article that might appear under it. | H |
| 620 | Keep the Empress Employed | Suggest some original, creative ways that The Post could increase its circulation. | H |
| 611 | Ask Backwards, Erudite Edition | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the sophisticated answers. You supply the questions. | H |
| 605 | Truly Stupendous Ideas | Name two people with the same initials (the people can be living or dead, real or fictional) and explain how they are similar or different. | H |
| 604 | Fun for the Roses | Breed any two of the horses on a list of those qualifying for this year's Triple Crown races, and tell us a good name for their foal. The name of the foal must be no more than 18 characters, including spaces. | H |
| 591 | Dead Letters | Write rhyming poems about notable personages who have died in the past year. | H |
| 578 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. Send us the questions. | H H |
| 576 | Well, Excuuuuse Us! | Come up with new excuses for any common human shortcoming or imperfection. | H |
| 570 | Timeline Rhyme Lines | Produce colorful chronological couplets about some historical event. They must rhyme and be in good meter. | H H H |
| 557 | Oh, for Namesakes! | Take two people, real or fictional, who share some element of their names and explain the difference between them. | H |
| 526 | Conventional Wisdumb | Answer any of the provided questions. | H H |
| 499 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Mate any two of the horses qualifying for this year's Triple Crown and tell us the name of their foal. Maximum 18 characters, including spaces. | H |
| 496 | The Style Invitational: The First Dreckade | Submit new entries to any of the old contests listed, and try to beat The Very Best of the Past 10 Years. | H |
| 483 | Obitter Fate | Give us an obit headline for some famous person, currently living or dead. | H |
| 450 | Blues It or Lose It | Write the first verse of a blues song expressing some Washington area woe. | H H |
| 441 | Spit the Difference | Take any two nouns that appear on the front page of today's Washington Post and explain how the nouns differ from each other. | H |
| 439 | No Can Do | Write signs of incompetence. | H |
| 426 | Captions Courageous | Take any photograph or illustration from today's Washington Post and give it a more interesting caption. | T |
| 425 | Hyphen the Terrible | Take the first half of any hyphenated word from any story in today's newspaper and combine it with the second half of any other hyphenated word in the same story, and propose a definition of the new word you've created. | H |
| 422 | Taught Language | Come up with lessons learned from (1) the movies, (2) popular songs, (3) romance novels or (4) the comics page. | H |
| 420 | Ha Anxiety | Make us laugh. | R |
| 419 | Don't Spare the Rodney | Come up with indications that one might not be getting no respect. | H |
| 417 | Initially Mistaken | Take any name of a person or thing, and construct an appropriate message using its letters, in order, as the first letters of the words of your message. | H |
| 405 | The "Sty"le Invitational | Take any word--this may include people or places--put a portion of it in "air quotes" and redefine it. You may not alter the spelling. | H |
| 401 | A Matter of Degree | Describe a sign of some modest change in a situation and pair it with a sign of an extreme change in that same situation. | H |
| 390 | Canine Fashion | Write: 1. A caption for the provided image explaining what is happening; 2. An explanation of why the image is not photography but art; 3. A description of what additional items might be needed to make the image complete. Sex and potty jokes will be disqualified. | H |
| 387 | By Jingo | Come up with a joke that could be written and understood only by a Washingtonian. | H |
| 383 | A Kinder, Gender Nation | Take an noun and give us a reason or two why it should be either masculine or feminine. | H |
| 382 | Pickup Schticks | Write inept pickup lines, by either sex, to either sex. | H |
| 379 | Rather Unusual | Come up with lines that could be uttered by Dan Rather, with his unbearably folksy excesses. | H |
| 369 | Punch Us | Complete any of the provided jokes. | U |
| 353 | Patently Silly | What do these devices do? | H |
| 340 | ASK BACKWARDS 12 | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. What are the questions? | H 7 |
| 336 | THE "STY"LE INVITATIONAL | Choose any word and emphasize a single part of it, as though you were saying the word out loud with "air quotes" around the key part. Then redefine the word. You cannot alter the spelling of the word. | H |
| 334 | The New Style Invitational: Six Choices for Czar | Vote for one of six possible editors of the Style Invitational, from among the current Czar and five worthy competitors. | H |
| 329 | THE STYLE INVITATIONAL: HELL | Take the name of a person or institution. Find within it a hidden message. You may add spacing and punctuation, but you may not move letters around. | H H H H H |
| 327 | ASK BACKWARDS | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 315 | FERMENTING TROUBLE | Write a rhyming poem, eight lines maximum, on the subject of cheese or any of the provided items. | H |
| 307 | IF YOU BOYCOTT THIS TASK / YOU WON'T WIN THE FLASK | Come up with rhyming couplets to warn us about the perils of modern life. | W |
| 290 | THE WORLD THEORIES | Codify some of life's more populist theories. | H |
| 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 |
| 275 | THERE ONCE WAS CONTEST FROM NANTUCKET . . . | Write a limerick in which the first line is about someone who comes from some place in the Washington area. | H 3 |
| 238 | CHALK IT UP TO STUPIDITY | Propose apologies for yourself in the style of Bart Simpson writing on his blackboard. | 3 |
| 223 | ATTEMPTING REENTRY | Submit entries to any past contest, so long as you never submitted them before. | H |
| 212 | DUMB AS THE POST | Come up with even stupider crimes than those committed by Montgomery County's "gentleman burglars. | H |