| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1202 | Don't be afraid of the dark | Write lyrics to a song that, in some way, express hope. | 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. | 3 |
| 1024 | Gorey thoughts | Send us some edgy rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. The pairs are AB, CD, EF, GH, IJ, KL, MN, OP, QR, ST, UV, WX, and YZ. | H H 4 |
| 1023 | Hai there, Martians! | Write one or more humorous haiku that will greet the Martians or share a little nugget of what life is like on Earth. | H |
| 823 | Wryku | Compose a humorous (or at least wry or clever) haiku. | H |
| 805 | Brand Eccchs | Give us an original name in any of the above categories (not an actual badly named product). | H |
| 804 | Our Type o' Joke | Change a headline by one letter, or switch two letters, in a headline (or most of a headline) appearing on an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com between Feb. 14 and 23, and elaborate on it in a "bank" headline (subhead) or a brief first sentence of an article that would run under it. | H H |
| 762 | Look This Up in Your Funk & Wagnalls | Supply the pair of terms listed at the top of a page of any print dictionary to indicate the first and last listings on the page, and define that hyphenated term. | H H 2 |
| 129 | REMAKE US HAPPY | Come up with alternative story lines to movie titles, new or old. | 3 |
| 125 | ASK BACKWARD VI | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 124 | SPOON-FEED US. | Come up with spoonerisms, expressions based on the transposition of the initial sounds of two paired words. | H |
| 123 | WHY IS POOP FUNNY? | Come up with creative answers to any of the five questions above that might be asked by a 5-year-old. | H |
| 110 | DO NOT INHALE THIS PAGE | Come up with absurd warning labels that might be found on common products. | H H |
| 108 | NEAR MISSES | Come up with the first drafts of great lines in history, entertainment or literature. | H H 4 |
| 105 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? | Come up with Good Ideas and then convert them to Bad Ideas through slight changes in wording. | L |
| 99 | WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE PICTURES? | What's wrong with these pictures? | 3 |
| 95 | HOW'S THAT AGAIN? | Take any headline appearing anywhere in The Post this week and completely rewrite the first lines of the story to put a different, unintended spin on it. | H |
| 89 | CHILD'S PLAY | Come up with bad ideas for new toys for the Christmas season. | H |
| 86 | EXCUSES, EXCUSES | Come up with funny excuses for various malfeasances. | 3 |
| 85 | PLAY MYTHTY FOR ME | Come up with new urban myths, those vaguely believable, wildly paranoid stories that circulate by word of mouth until they are generally accepted as true. | 1 |
| 78 | SEEKING SMART MORONS | Come up with an oxymoron for our times, an expression made bogus by the fact that it combines incompatible, contradictory ideas. | H |
| 75 | CURSES! | Come up with modern maledictions in the wise and entertaining Yiddish tradition. | H |
| 74 | SHIRT HAPPENS | In 10 words or fewer, what should the back of the "Year 2" T-shirt say? | 1 |
| 72 | OH, HELL | Come up with the perfect vision of Hell for a famous person, living or dead. | H |
| 70 | SOUNDS LIKE A BAD IDEA | Come up with jokes based on noises. | H H H 2 |
| 69 | LAYING DOWN THE LAW | Send us some exciting new principles that explain why things happen they way they happen. | H 1 |
| 67 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS | Make up the last words of famous dead people whose last words are unknown. | H 1 |
| 65 | DESPERATELY SEEKING HUMOR | Write a personal ad. It may be for a celebrity or for anyone in need of adroit euphemism. | H |
| 60 | ASK BACKWARDS III | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H H H |