WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1430 | Back to racing speed with the 'foals' | Breed" any two of the provided names of the 100 horses nominated for the 2021 Triple Crown races and name the "foal" to humorously play off both parents' names. | H |
1388 | Turning around a business | Create a business, product, organization or similar entity that contains a word, name or phrase and its anagram, and describe it. | L |
1366 | Tour de Fours XVI -- It's the LIAR club | Coin a word or multi-word term that contains the letter block L-I-A-R and describe it. | P |
1318 | Love the tiny tail stain! | Create an anagram -- a phrase or sentence with the letters rearranged -- of any text (except merely someone's name), of any length. | W |
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. | H |
969 | Colt following | Breed any two "foals" in today's results, and name the grandfoal. | P |
824 | Jestinations | Give us a slogan for any city or town. | 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 |
734 | Turnaround Time | Write a rhyming couplet containing two words that are anagrams of each other. | H |
512 | Live On, Sweet, Earnest Reader | Take the name of any person--living, dead, fictional--and use the letters of his name, in succession, to form the first letters of an expression appropriate to that person. | 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 |
413 | Bland Ambition | Come up with one or more items from an underachiever's list of midlife resolutions. | H |
391 | Spinning Out of Control | Take a headline in today's Washington Post and create a subhead that spins the story in an opposite or unexpected direction. | H |
369 | Punch Us | Complete any of the provided jokes. | 1 |
361 | Bad Libs | Select one subject, one verb, and one object from the provided lists, and then answer the riddle you create. | I |
359 | It's No Party | Come up with a new political party and its main political tenet. | I |
358 | Finish the Fire | Finish "We Didn't Start the Fire," to summarize 1990 to the present. | I |
297 | FREE FOR OIL | Take any article in today's paper, and write an outraged letter to the editor about it that totally misses the point, either by misreading a word or misunderstanding the topic. | 2 |