WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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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. | H |
1020 | Colt following | Breed any two of this week's winning foals and name the grandfoal. | H |
1010 | Picture this | Write a caption for any of the five provided cartoons. | H |
1007 | Clue us in | Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. | H |
988 | A faster break | Suggest ways to make sports and other leisure activities more time-efficient or exciting. | 4 |
940 | Our type o' headline | Change a headline by one letter, or switch two letters, or change spacing or punctuation, in a headline (or most of a headline) appearing on an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Oct. 7 through Oct. 17, and elaborate on it in a "bank" headline (subhead). | 2 |
939 | MASH 2: The Retread | Combine two movie titles and describe the result. | H |
937 | Staake it to him | Write a caption for any of the five pages or details pictured from some of Bob's more than 50 picture books. | 2 |
936 | Hoho contendere | Slightly alter a well-known foreign-language term and define it. | 2 |
932 | We'll call them your-mama jokes | Tell us an original "your mama" joke. | 4 |
930 | We WANT stupid complaints! | Complain comically unreasonably about some innocuous thing appearing in the print Post or on washingtonpost.com over the next week or the previous few days. | H |
912 | Pair-a-phrase | Lift a word that appears inside a longer word; pair it with the original word to create a phrase; and define it. | H H |
886 | Look both ways | Give us a new term that's a palindrome and define it. | H |
885 | Mess with our heads | Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 10 through Sept. 20 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head. | H |
883 | Same difference | Choose any two items from the list above and explain why they are alike or are different from each other. | H |
881 | What's in a name? | Take the name of a person or institution. Find within it a hidden message. | H |
878 | Safety in blunders | Tell us a way to make the nation more secure. | H |
877 | Quipped from the headlines | Write a rhyming couplet about some matter in the news. | H |
245 | LIKE FUN | Complete any of the provided "A is like B because" sentences. | I |