| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1484 | Two ways about it | What's something (printable) you could say in two -- or more -- of the provided situations. | H |
| 742 | Clue Us In | Give us a whole new set of clues to a crossword puzzle penned by Ace Constructor Paula Gamache. | H |
| 688 | Making Short Work | Write a humorous six-word story. | H |
| 547 | Give Us a Bad Name | Take an existing product or business name and pair it with an incompatible one. | H |
| 546 | A Nice Pair of Cities | Choose any two or more real U.S. towns and come up with a joint endeavor they would undertake. | H |
| 488 | No Rest for the Query | Come up with a vexing, funny question about life. | 4 |
| 478 | Do You Mindset? | Anticipate items for the Mindset List for the freshman class of the year 2020. | H 2 |
| 468 | Ism This Stupid? | Take any common prefix and attach it to any well-known "ism" and define the new term. | H |
| 383 | A Kinder, Gender Nation | Take an noun and give us a reason or two why it should be either masculine or feminine. | W |
| 241 | CAN YOU BEAT THIS? | Come up with headlines describing the defeat of one pro team by another. | H H |
| 222 | TRIP DEUCES | Take the two subject listings at the top of any page of the Yellow Pages and create a dictionary definition for the compound word they form. | H H H |
| 220 | RSVP | Provide an answer to any of the dumb questions from Week 217. | H |
| 217 | NO QUESTION ABOUT IT | Come up with truly stupid questions. | H |
| 211 | GIVE US THE BACKS OFF YOUR SHIRTS | Design the back of the fourth Style Invitational T-shirt, with anything that captures the transcendent indignity of this contest. | H |
| 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 |
| 204 | DOUBLE EXPRESSO | Take any well-known colorful expression, and modernize it. | H |
| 195 | THE MARTHIAN CHRONICLES | Come up with items for Martha Stewart's December-January calendar of projects. | H |
| 192 | HILL'S BILLS | Come up with bills any of the new members of Congress might jointly sponsor. | H |
| 182 | CAN YOU STOP THIS? | Come up with a conversation stopper, a line likely to end all further discourse, perhaps even empty a room. | H |
| 163 | WHAT KIND OF FOAL AM I? | Take the list of all 1996 Triple Crown nominees, couple up any two of them, and propose an appropriate name for their hypothetical foal. The foal's name must fit in no more than 18 characters, including spaces. | H |
| 154 | ENTER LAUGHING | Make up a knock-knock joke. The subject of the third line must be something crude, silly, or profound. | H |
| 150 | TRIAL BALLOONS | What are the people saying? | H |
| 146 | IT'S LIKE THIS | Produce an A and B to complete the expression "A makes about as much sense as B. | H |
| 103 | SEND HELP. | Come up with ways to raise some badly needed cash for the District of Columbia. | W |
| 88 | GIVE US SOME GOOD NEWS | Come up with ways things are going to be different now that Republicans have ascended to power. | H |
| 84 | THE WASHINGTON IRVINGS | Come up with creative names for the high school football teams of real towns in America. | H |
| 74 | SHIRT HAPPENS | In 10 words or fewer, what should the back of the "Year 2" T-shirt say? | H |
| 11 | YOU GIVE US THE BACKS OFF OUR SHIRTS | The back of the shirt needs a slogan, something that captures the spirit of The Style Invitational. What is that spirit? You tell us. | 8 |