WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1399 | The lie-zy days of summer | Tell us some bogus trivia about the summer or things that happen or have happened in the summer. | H |
1232 | Picture this -- a caption contest | Write a caption for one or more of the provided cartoons. | H H |
1212 | The Tile Invitational IV | Give us a five-, six- or seven-letter word (or two words) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it. | H |
1127 | From the creators of . . . | Think up a spinoff of a real TV series, past or present, and furnish a description or bit of dialogue. | H |
1118 | Breed 'em and weep | Breed any two of the provided 100 racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown events and name the foal the reflect both names. | H |
1026 | 'Might' makes ink | Give us a joke using any of the using any of the provided "you might be" templates. | H |
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 |
1021 | 'Gram theft | Come up with a term by scrambling any of the letters sets in the provided list, and define it. | H |
1015 | Faux re mi | Give us some humorously false trivia about music or musicians. | H |
1008 | Switched reels | Re-arrange all the words in the title of a movie, and describe the resulting work. | H |
996 | A Life-Time opportunity | Combine two magazines or journals and describe the result, supply a marketing pitch, or suggest a story or two that it might publish. | H |
992 | Mittsterpiece Theatre | Suppose public-TV shows, past or present, were turned out onto the open market to make a living on commercial TV. Tell us what would happen. | H |
975 | Gone mything | Debunk a "Sixth Myth" about one of more of the recent "5 Myths" topics provided. | H |
967 | Overlap dance II | Create a phrase that overlaps two terms, each of two words or more, and describe the result. | 4 |
958 | All's Weller | Write a "wellerism," a sentence that starts with a quote, often a short proverb, and goes on to include some sort of wordplay on something in the quote. | W H |
955 | Twits' twist | Create a phrase by combining a word or phrase with an anagram of that word or phrase, and define or describe it. | H 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 |
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. | H H |
924 | Doomed to repeat it | Create "Unreal Facts" about history. | H |
462 | Cast Away | Come up with a terrible bit of miscasting in a movie or TV show, past or present, real or imagined. | H |
423 | Roling With Laughter | Take a character from one movie, use him or her to replace a character in a second movie, and then explain how this change would affect the second movie. | H H |