| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1395 | Add nauseam: A plus-one contest | Add a "plus one" to some familiar numerical grouping, true or fictional | P |
| 1368 | Picture This -- cartoon captions | Supply a caption for one or more of the provided cartoons. | H |
| 1367 | Pick me up at work, okay? | Give a pickup line from someone in a particular profession, or from a particular person or fictional character. | H |
| 1340 | Not-ables -- slightly alter a famous name | Slightly alter the name (make sure the original is obvious) of a famous personage -- past or present, real or fictional -- and describe the resulting nonpersonage, or offer a quote from that person, or both. | H |
| 1338 | Picture This -- cartoon captions | Supply a caption for one or more of the provided cartoons. | H |
| 1327 | Mess with our (or anyone's) heads | Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline (or a big part of a headline) by writing a bank head, or subtitle. | P |
| 1308 | Picture this -- or these | This week you have two choices: (1) Write a caption for one or more of these pictures, or (2) explain what is wrong with the picture. You might also combine two pictures into one -- or all four into one. | H |
| 1307 | One-for-one for all | Replace one letter in an existing word, name or multi-word phrase with one different letter (in the same place in the word) and define or describe the result. | H |
| 1303 | Neologisms to di- for | Replace a digraph in an existing word or phrase with another digraph to make a new term. | H |
| 1272 | The hex files: creative curses | Come up with a creative curse. | H |
| 1267 | Jingle bungle | Suggest an ill-advised spokesman (dead or alive, or fictional), along with a humorously noooo slogan or jingle. | H |
| 1083 | Everybody get appy | Offer up an idea for either a humorously useful app or a humorously counterproductive one. | P |
| 1081 | It's the stupidity, stupid | Write us stupid questions that will make us laugh. | H |
| 1026 | 'Might' makes ink | Give us a joke using any of the using any of the provided "you might be" templates. | H |
| 1023 | Hai there, Martians! | Write one or more humorous haiku that will greet the Martians or share a little nugget of what life is like on Earth. | H |
| 1022 | What's the diff? | Explain how any two of the provided items are alike or different. | H |
| 1011 | Top these! | Try your hand at any of the contests mentioned in this look back. | H |
| 895 | Picture this | Supply a caption for any of these cartoons. | H |
| 888 | It's the eponymy, stupid | Coin a word or expression based on the name of a well-known person, define it, and perhaps use it in a sentence | H |
| 883 | Same difference | Choose any two items from the list above and explain why they are alike or are different from each other. | H |
| 772 | Make It Simile, Stupid | Translate a sentence or two of literature or other good writing so that "Los Angeles residents under 40" can appreciate it. | H |
| 762 | Look This Up in Your Funk & Wagnalls | Supply the pair of terms listed at the top of a page of any print dictionary to indicate the first and last listings on the page, and define that hyphenated term. | H |
| 760 | Whacksy Buildup | Describe any of these Googlewhacks in the form of a question, "Jeopardy"-style. | H H |
| 747 | Boeing Us Silly | Suggest some comical ways to improve air travel, either in general or for yourself. | H |
| 717 | Pitch Us a No-Hitter | Send us some genuine Googlenopes. A Googlenope is a phrase or very brief sentence that, entered into the Google search engine with quotation marks around it, produces no hits. | H |
| 715 | Your Mug Here | Send us an idea for a slogan for the back of the new Loser T-shirt. | H H |
| 714 | Amalgamated Steal | Merge two or more company or product names into a new, ORIGINAL company or product. | H |
| 707 | What Would YOU Do? | Use only the words appearing in "The Cat in the Hat" to create your own work of "literature" of no more than 75 words. | H |
| 706 | Questionable Journalism | Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from March 24 through April 2 and come up with a question it could answer. | H |
| 705 | Simile Outrageous | Come up with funny analogies, perhaps with some 21st-century references. | H |
| 704 | Another Game of Tag | Create vanity plates for well-known people, real or fictional. | H |
| 699 | Our Greatest Hit | Take a word, term or name that begins with E, F, G or H; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word. | 2 |
| 652 | Ask Backward | You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. You supply the questions. | H |
| 648 | Caller IDiot | Name a product or company and supply a stupid question to ask the consumer hotline person. | H |
| 598 | Site Gags | Come up with an appropriate name for a cafeteria--or meeting room, or an employee lounge, or some other workplace spot--for a particular institution. | H H H |
| 511 | It All Impends | Tell us what is something unusual about to happen in the provided cartoons. | H |
| 508 | Letter Rip | Take a word from the dictionary, add, change, or delete a single letter, and redefine the word. | H |
| 18 | PUNCH US IN THE EAR | Give us a motto for The Washington Post. | H |
| 15 | PUNCH US | Complete any of the provided jokes in 75 words or fewer. | L |