| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1583 | A Thousand Words | Write a funny poem about the artwork of your choice. | H 4 |
| 1581 | SOTU-Speak | Use words from Biden's State of the Union speech to write some lines for another oration. | H 3 |
| 1580 | Hi, Anxiety! | Tell us some funny ways to stress yourself out. | H 3 |
| 1578 | The Pepys Show | Give us a diary entry from anyone in history. | H |
| 1577 | Why the #$%#$% Not? | The Washington Post is looking for some bold ideas -- Let's show it some! | H H H |
| 1576 | Praise the Lurid! | Give us clickbait headlines for mundane stories. | H H H 2 |
| 1575 | The Ughscars and the Phewlitzers | Give us an idea for a bad book or movie. | W H H H H |
| 1573 | The Invitational Week 55: Tour de Fours — Be STUD-ly | Give us a new word or phrase containing 'DUST' in any order of letters. | H H H |
| 1572 | S Is for Smartass | Presenting the Devil's Alphabet Soup | W H H H H 3 |
| 1570 | The Invitational, Week 52: Replaying Around -- The 2023 retrospective, Part II | Enter or reenter our Week 26-50. | H H H |
| 1569 | Look Back in Inker -- Our 2023 retrospective, Part 1 | Enter or reenter our Week 1-25 contests. | H H H H H 2 |
| 1567 | Picture This | A caption contest | H H |
| 1566 | Well, the Good News Is ... | Put a positive spin on a bad-news headline | H |
| 1564 | "Air" "Quotes" | A new forefinger contest | H H H |
| 1563 | The Perfect(ly Ridiculous) Gift | Offer up some products for people-who-have-everything catalogs. | H H |
| 1562 | Rhyme and Rhyme Again | Write a funny "monorhyme", a poem whose lines all rhyme on the same sound. | H H H |
| 1561 | Let It Be a Lesson to Us | Tell us some things to be learned from Costco, the bathroom, TV shows, etc. | H H 2 |
| 1560 | The 'Hole Story | Write us a funny 'Am I The Asshole' question | H H H |
| 1559 | As the Word Turns | 'Discover' new words by snaking through this random grid | H H H |
| 1558 | It's Parody Time | Send up the news with those songs and videos you do so well | H |
| 1557 | Tailgating On the Highway | Pair a Dylan line with your own rhyming one | H H H |
| 1556 | Cross Us Up | Mirror a phrase, more or less | H H H |
| 1555 | Do You Have to Spell It Out for Us? | Give us "backronyms" | H |
| 1554 | U (Heart) TFG's BFFs | Reach out to beleaguered Trump supporters and bathe them in the warmth of your love, to help bind the nation’s wounds | H |
| 1552 | A Mirthday Party | Link two people who share a birthday | L H |
| 1551 | Ask Backwards XLII | We give the answers. You give the questions. | H H |
| 1550 | Holy Moly, It's Limerixicon XX | Write a limerick featuring a word beginning "ho-". | H |
| 1549 | The Tile Invitational X | It's our 10th running of this coin-a-word game. | H |
| 1547 | Alphabettering | Write a funny sentence containing all 26 letters. | H |
| 1546 | Put It in Bee-verse | Write a funny poem using a spelling bee word | H |
| 1545 | Their Base Behavior | Tell humorously how some business or organization could alter its product or message to appeal to Trump’s cult. | H |
| 1543 | F Things Up | Neologisms by adding Fs or changing letters to F | 2 |
| 1540 | Picture This | It's caption contest time, with eight motley pictures to choose from. | H H |
| 1539 | Get Real, Reel | Name a scene in a movie, a TV show, or literature, and tell us how it might be revised (perhaps less satisfyingly but far more realistically) | H H H |
| 1538 | Rhymes Against Humanity | Write a four-line poem about people in the news, using either of two poetic forms | H |
| 1535 | The Poops Diorama | Make some funny art with toilet paper and send us a photo. | H |
| 1534 | Pun for the Roses | Our renowned horse name 'breeding' contest returns! | H |
| 1533 | The Very Last 'Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions' | Tell us a stupid question followed by a funny retort. | 4 |
| 1530 | Mess With Our Heads | Reinterpret any headline by adding a 'bank head'. | H |
| 1529 | Hello, Dall-E! | Our new contest partners you and a machine. | H |
| 1528 | It's Our Birthday. Party Like It's 1993. | As the Invite turns 30, enter your choice of contests from our year of infancy | H H H |
| 1526 | Poke Us Till We Giggle | Write a "poke", or a joke recast as a rhyming poem | H |
| 1525 | Arty Har-har | Give us an idea for a humorously audacious modern art work | H H |
| 1524 | Picture This | A caption contest | H H |
| 1522 | Questionable Journalism | Find a sentence published in the next week and tell us what question it could answer | H |
| 1521 | Send Us the Bill | Our "Joint Legislation" contest | H |
| 1520 | Nextra! Nextra! | Read All About it. Predict the big news events of 2023 | H |
| 1515 | Munich-ipals -- European "sister cities | Choose any two or more towns from the 51 countries in Europe/Eurasia and come up with a joint endeavor the “sister cities” would undertake. | W |
| 1513 | You're such a card | Come up with a greeting card rhyme for an un-greeting-card occasion. | 4 |
| 1512 | Alphabetter | Write a 26-word sentence or other passage whose words each start with a different letter — except that the X in the X-word may appear elsewhere in the word, as long as the word has an “ex” syllable. | H |
| 1511 | The inside word--our 'air quote' contest | Highlight part of a word, name or short phrase in “air quotes” to give the word a new meaning or description. | H H |
| 1508 | Tour de Fours XIX —Laughtime Achievement | Coin a word or phrase containing the letters E-L-D-N — consecutively but in any order — and describe it. | H |
| 1503 | Sing of your supper--parodies about food | Write a humorous song on the subject of food. | H |