| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1185 | The Rorschach of the crowd | Interpret one of more of the provided genuine inkblots. You may look at them upside down or sideways. | H |
| 694 | Hopelessly Ever After | Offer up a gloomy interpretation of any ungloomy piece of writing. | H |
| 551 | Lost in Translation | Find us some comical translations-and-back using Google translator. Feed some passage of English text into the tool--25 words max--and ask it to translate it into one of the five languages offered; then copy the result back into the tool and ask it to translate that back to English. | H H 3 |
| 547 | Give Us a Bad Name | Take an existing product or business name and pair it with an incompatible one. | H |
| 538 | Try, Try Again | Enter any previous Invitational. Your entry must be substantially different from the original winners. | 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 |
| 459 | Stock Humor | Look at any of the abbreviated company names in the Nasdaq or New York Stock Exchange listings in any newspaper's business section and suggest what business the companies might be in. | H 5 |
| 449 | Cut and Pastiche | Create a new, funny headline from the words of any headlines appearing anywhere in today's Post. You cannot subdivide words. | H |
| 443 | Sick Humor | Come up with modern diseases of Washington life. | H H |
| 442 | Titletales | Take any real book or movie, change one word slightly, and describe the resulting new product. | W |