| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1497 | The if-word | Give us a "what if" scenario and its humorous result | H |
| 594 | History Loves Company | Name an appropriate corporate sponsor for some historical event or for someone's life story. | H |
| 567 | A Running Gag | Explain how any of the provided bizarre cartoons by Bob Staake relates to the current presidential campaign. | 4 |
| 564 | Redefine Print | Redefine any word from the dictionary. | H |
| 563 | Take Two | Take any two of the provided items and explain how they resemble or differ from each other. | H |
| 557 | Oh, for Namesakes! | Take two people, real or fictional, who share some element of their names and explain the difference between them. | H |
| 555 | A Tsk, A Task | Come up with a super-wholesome passage of 25 words or fewer that would likely be banned by the admirable, ever-vigilant Neopets.com site. | H |
| 499 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Mate any two of the horses qualifying for this year's Triple Crown and tell us the name of their foal. Maximum 18 characters, including spaces. | H |
| 477 | A Load of Bulwer | Give us the beginning of incompetently written novel. | 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 |
| 457 | Letter Rip | Give us the beginning of a letter to the editor that is certain never to see print. | H |
| 410 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | 1 |
| 396 | April Foals | Mate any two of the horses qualifying for the Triple Crown races and come up with appropriate names for their foals. Maximum 18 letters and spaces. | H |
| 386 | The Game of Clue | What are some clues that someone might be any of the provided characterizations? | H |
| 382 | Pickup Schticks | Write inept pickup lines, by either sex, to either sex. | H |
| 366 | Just Fulghum | Come up with a list of at least three Major Life Lessons one can learn from any of the venues provided. | H H |
| 358 | Finish the Fire | Finish "We Didn't Start the Fire," to summarize 1990 to the present. | H |
| 351 | Dubya Fun | Take any well-known statement, expression, slogan, etc., and rewrite it the way Dubya might have said it. | H |
| 344 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Envision the mating of any two of the 387 horses qualifying for this year's Triple Crown, and propose a name for their foal. The foal's name must be contained in 18 or fewer letters and spaces. | H |
| 329 | THE STYLE INVITATIONAL: HELL | Take the name of a person or institution. Find within it a hidden message. You may add spacing and punctuation, but you may not move letters around. | H |
| 311 | A JERRY-BUILT CONTEST | Find cleverly disguised threats to public morality or hallowed American values that may be secretly lurking out there in our culture. | 1 |
| 310 | IT'S LIKE THIS | Come up with really lame analogies. | H H |
| 302 | UNSTATED TRUTHS | Come up with lines that you'll never hear the provided people say. | 3 |
| 290 | THE WORLD THEORIES | Codify some of life's more populist theories. | H |
| 284 | ASK BACKWARDS MCLXVII | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 281 | CALCULATE THE ODDS | Tell us which of the two provided items does not belong with the other two, and why. | H |
| 271 | YOGI BEARER | Come up with new Yogi-isms, which seem to make sense, but collapse like a soufflé when you poke it a little | H |
| 266 | DEFINITELY WEIRD | Take any word from the dictionary and redefine it. | H |
| 261 | WHAT IF YOU GIVE IT A TRY II | Alter some crucial moment in history, and then tell us the likely outcome. | H |
| 258 | IT'S A BIRD. IT'S A PAIN. | Choose one or more of the provided super powers and tell us what you would do with it. | H |
| 240 | ADDING INSULT | Come up with elegant insults directed at any famous person, living or dead, such as the real encomiums above. | H |
| 229 | WE CAN'T HEAR YOU | Supply an example for any of the five "Things you don't want to hear" categories provided. | H |
| 228 | MAKE MY DAY | Supply advice to today's spoiled kids about how bad things were when we were growing up. | H |
| 225 | WE RESPECTfully decline to publish any dumb entries by YOU. | Come up with signs for a T-shirt or a bumper sticker that hide the real message in tiny type. | 1 |
| 215 | SON OF A PITCH | Write lavish blurbs in 50 words or fewer so some sucker will want to pay a lot of money for the provided items. | W H |
| 214 | ASK BACKWARDS IX | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are your answers. What are the questions? | 1 |
| 209 | WE NEED SOME SEASONING | Come up with the first signs of spring in Washington. | 2 |
| 207 | TIED TO BE FIT | Each of the eight provided items is related, in some fashion, to one or more of the provided individuals. You make the connections. | H H |
| 201 | THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE | Come up with a new element and its symbol, and provide a brief description of its chemical or physical properties. | H |
| 188 | BLANKETY BLANKS | Complete any of the above sentences, substituting your own phrases for the well-known omitted words. | I |
| 180 | WHEN IN DOUBT, PUN | Take any headline in today's Post and improve it by somehow turning it into a pun. | H |
| 178 | DEEP THROATS | Come up with Deep Thoughts, in the style of Jack Handey of "Saturday Night Live." A Deep Thought is a short, simple, seemingly inspirational observation that winds up being cynical, ironic, or just plain weird. | H |
| 162 | MAY WE HAVE YOUR PRETENSION, PLEASE? | Come up with the most pretentious original sentence possible. | H |
| 161 | CAPITOL MISTAKES | Come up with very, very bad advice for first-time visitors to Washington. | H H |
| 159 | ODDBALLS | Which item in each series does not belong? Explain your answer. | H H |
| 143 | IT'S MY PARODY (& I'LL TRY IF I WANT TO) | Rewrite any common jingle or theme song in the style of famous writer. | H |
| 139 | EMPLOYMENT LINES | Come up with jobs that make even your crummy job seem good. | H |
| 136 | NEW END IN SIGHT | Come up with new endings to make literary classics more suitable for Hollywood in the 1990s. | 1 |
| 135 | JERRY-BUILT SOLUTIONS | Come up with Seinfeld-isms: whiny, quirky musings on little questions of life. | H |
| 129 | REMAKE US HAPPY | Come up with alternative story lines to movie titles, new or old. | H |
| 125 | ASK BACKWARD VI | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 121 | IT'S NO USE | Come up with useless products. | H |
| 119 | MUZAK TO OUR EAR | Come up with unfortunate Muzak songs to hear on the phone while on hold. You can use either a song title or a lyric. | H 1 |
| 114 | THE JOKE'S ON YOU | Come up with jokes to culminate in any of these six punch lines. | W |
| 112 | POOP FICTION | Come up with the opening lines of a book so bad it will compel you to stop reading immediately; maximum 50 words. | L |
| 111 | ASK BACKWARDS V | Here are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 109 | SEND US YOUR MAIL PARTS | We're looking for funny examples of pidgin English that try to say one thing, but actually say something quite different. | H |
| 99 | WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE PICTURES? | What's wrong with these pictures? | H |
| 97 | NEWTONIAN PHILOSOPHY | Come up with more Newt Gingrich philosophy to explain the differences between men and women, Democrats and Republicans, dogs and cats, whatever needs explaining. | H |
| 95 | HOW'S THAT AGAIN? | Take any headline appearing anywhere in The Post this week and completely rewrite the first lines of the story to put a different, unintended spin on it. | H |
| 87 | WEST EASY, ANN | Come up with good things about West Virginia, in 50 words of fewer. | H |
| 86 | EXCUSES, EXCUSES | Come up with funny excuses for various malfeasances. | H 2 |
| 84 | THE WASHINGTON IRVINGS | Come up with creative names for the high school football teams of real towns in America. | H |