| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 621 | Questionable Journalism | Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article in washingtonpost.com anytime through Aug. 8 and supply a question it could answer. | I |
| 561 | Deform of a Question | Take any sentence appearing in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com today through June 14, and make up a question to which the sentence could be an answer. | I |
| 375 | Show Us Up | Combine the names of two existing TV shows (past or present) to make an entirely new show. Then, describe the show. | H |
| 372 | Trial Balloons | Fill in the balloons. | H |
| 355 | Seeing Stars | Tell us ways we can attract celebrity participation to this contest. | W |
| 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. | U H H |
| 269 | SIGNS, AND THE TIMES | Come up with new, helpful signage for downtown streets. You must state the problem, and propose the sign to rectify it. | H H H |
| 266 | DEFINITELY WEIRD | Take any word from the dictionary and redefine it. | W |
| 264 | ASK BACKWARDS | You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. What are the questions? | H H |
| 257 | LET US PLAY | Create a game, or a prank, that can be played using any two or more of the provided objects. | H |
| 254 | DOUBLE JEOPARDY! | Take any sentence appearing anywhere in today's Washington Post, and make up a question to which it could be a plausible answer. | L I H H H |
| 248 | STICKER SCHLOCK | Come up with a message for our new, mildly sought-after Style Invitational bumper sticker, something that summarizes the grandeur and dignity of this stupid contest. | H |
| 239 | NAME THAT TOON | Send us the captions for cartoons not provided. | I |
| 237 | ASK BACKWARD | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 234 | THE JOKE'S ON YOU | Complete any of the provided jokes as it would be told by someone famous, living or dead. | 1 |
| 232 | PRIMAL URGES | Update, for the millennium, the old "A is for Apple" reading primer. An entry must include the four letters in one of these blocks: A-D, E-H, I-L, M-P, Q-T, U-Z. | W |
| 149 | O, NO! | Come up with a palindrome, a line that reads the same backward and forward, and then use it as a punchline to a joke. | I |
| 115 | THE MNEMONIC PLAGUE | Come up with new mnemonic devices to remember complicated lists. | W |
| 114 | THE JOKE'S ON YOU | Come up with jokes to culminate in any of these six punch lines. | E |
| 110 | DO NOT INHALE THIS PAGE | Come up with absurd warning labels that might be found on common products. | H |
| 106 | DRAWING CONCLUSIONS | Who are these people, and what are they doing? | H |
| 103 | SEND HELP. | Come up with ways to raise some badly needed cash for the District of Columbia. | H |
| 94 | WEEKS 1-93 | Come up with a great answer to any previous Style Invitational contest, an answer you may have thought of after the contest was over. | A |
| 84 | THE WASHINGTON IRVINGS | Come up with creative names for the high school football teams of real towns in America. | H |
| 75 | CURSES! | Come up with modern maledictions in the wise and entertaining Yiddish tradition. | H |
| 61 | NO HARD FEELINGS | Fill in the balloons in these cheerful farewell panels drawn by Marc Rosenthal, the Style Invitational artist who is being replaced by Bob Staake. | E |
| 24 | ASK BACKWARDS | You are on "Jeopardy!" Those are the answers. What are the questions? | W |