| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1251 | Thanking outside the box | Tell us something to be thankful for. | H |
| 1109 | Fictoids of Columbia | Tell us some humorously untrue “facts” about Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area. | H |
| 1085 | Eww-venirs: Ideas for gift shops | Suggest a humorous--but NOT horribly tasteless--tchotchke, T-shirt, etc., from a real or imagined gift shop at a particular tourist site. | H |
| 967 | Overlap dance II | Create a phrase that overlaps two terms, each of two words or more, and describe the result. | H |
| 878 | Safety in blunders | Tell us a way to make the nation more secure. | W |
| 875 | Fail Us | Give us a funny Learn From My Fail-type lesson, 30 words or fewer, true or not, in your own words or attributed to a famous personage. | H |
| 851 | Going to the shrink | Downsize the title of a book, movie or play to make it smaller or less momentous and describe it. | H |
| 831 | A Big To-Do | Name a "bucket list" item for a well-known real or fictional character. | H 4 |
| 799 | Send Us the Bill | Come up with legislation that, given their names, two or more freshman senators or representatives might sponsor together. | H |
| 797 | Be Resolute | Make a humorous resolution for some particular person or institution to accomplish next year. | H |
| 796 | Sincerest Flattery | Make up a pun on a familiar name of a real of fictional person and provide a fitting description or quote. | H |
| 795 | Stimulate Us | Tell us what the government ought to be spending our money on. | H H |
| 792 | Clue Us In | Compile a set of funny alternative clues to a crossword penned by Ace Constructor Paula Gamache. | H H |
| 789 | Doctrine in The House? | State a humorous, original "doctrine" for a person or other entity. | H |
| 784 | Words to The Wiseacres | Give us some proverbs for 21st-century life. | H H |
| 783 | The Shill Game | Name a celebrity or fictional character to endorse a real product or company. | H |
| 781 | Our Greatest Hit | Start with a word or multi-word term that begins with I, J, K or L; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word. | H H |
| 780 | Location, Location, Location | Say how you know you're in a particular place. | H |
| 779 | Gripe for the Picking | Rant about any issue that wouldn't make your top 100 for airing in The Post. | H H |
| 773 | Always Looking for Sects | Coin a religion or belief system and tell us its basic tenet or distinguishing characteristic. | H |
| 760 | Whacksy Buildup | Describe any of these Googlewhacks in the form of a question, "Jeopardy"-style. | I I |
| 442 | Titletales | Take any real book or movie, change one word slightly, and describe the resulting new product. | H |
| 422 | Taught Language | Come up with lessons learned from (1) the movies, (2) popular songs, (3) romance novels or (4) the comics page. | H |
| 391 | Spinning Out of Control | Take a headline in today's Washington Post and create a subhead that spins the story in an opposite or unexpected direction. | U |
| 387 | By Jingo | Come up with a joke that could be written and understood only by a Washingtonian. | H |