WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1130 | Yux Redux: Play on a foreign phrase | Make a word play on a foreign phrase or term (or English phrase using foreign words) and describe it. | H H H |
1119 | We want hue so bad | Invent a name for a color and describe it. | H |
1116 | Punning in place | Create a new term using only the letters in a place name. You don't have to use all the letters, but you can't use a letter more often than it appears in the word. | H |
1096 | Picture this | Write a humorous caption for any of the provided Bob Staake cartoons. | H |
1094 | TAXI's the fare for Tour de Fours XI | Coin a word or hyphenated term that contains the letter block T-A-X-I; the letters may be in any order, but there may be no other letters between them. | H |
1088 | Ask backwards with our answers, your questions | Supply the questions to as many of the 16 supplied answers as you like. | H H |
1083 | Everybody get appy | Offer up an idea for either a humorously useful app or a humorously counterproductive one. | H |
1072 | The Tile Invitational | Come up with a 5-, 6-, or 7-letter term by scrambling any of the provided seven-letter ScrabbleGram sets, and define it. | H |
1068 | An iffy proposition | Suggest some humorous action that you would take if you were in someone's position, more or less in the form "If I were _____ my first act would be _____. | H |
1067 | A(t)tribute to your wit | Alter a well-known quote slightly and attribute it to someone else. | H H |
1066 | It's mating season | Breed" any two from the provided list of 100 of the 3-year-old racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown and name the foal to reflect both names. | W |
1063 | Same difference | Take any two items from the provided list and explain how they're similar or different. | 2 |
1061 | Less taste, more fill-in | Give us a novel clue for any word or phrase in which the remaining letters in the provided crossword puzzle fit, across or down. | H |
1052 | Clue us in | Come up with up to 25 creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms that appear in the provided grid. | H |
1048 | Ask Backwards | You supply the questions to as many of the provided answers as you like. | H |
1042 | Tour de Fours X: Go SANE | Create a new word or two-word term containing the letter block S-A-N-E -- in any order, but consecutively, and define it. | H H |
1040 | IRS my case | Schedule A: Suggest a novel way for the government to determine taxes. Schedule B: Suggest a deduction that you'd like to take, or that some real or fictional person past or present might like to take. Schedule C: Suggest a cause you'd rather check off $3 for. |
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1037 | Outrage us | Find something offensive about an inoffensive name of a product, organization, place, etc. | H |
1036 | Just for liffs | Use a real place name, from anywhere in the world, as a new term. | H |
1035 | The Empy 500 | Explain what news Bob Staake is trying to tell in any of the provided drawings. | H H |
1031 | The 'Sty'le Invitational | Choose any word, name, or short term; emphasize a key, suddenly pertinent part of it with quotation marks; then redefine the word. | H |
1026 | 'Might' makes ink | Give us a joke using any of the using any of the provided "you might be" templates. | H |