WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1008 | Switched reels | Re-arrange all the words in the title of a movie, and describe the resulting work. | H |
976 | Join now! | Combine the beginning and end of any two words or names in this week's Style Invitational or Style Conversational columns to make a new term, and define it. | H |
865 | No Googlenopes left | Come up with a humorous Googlenope. | 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 |
602 | Take a Letter -- Again | Take a word, term or name that begins with A, B, C or D; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word. | H |
577 | Teledubbies | Slightly change the title of a TV show, past or present, and describe it. | H |
532 | Short Pans | Come up with a terse review (four words or fewer) of any work of art. | H |
524 | Around Things Moving | Take the title of any book or movie, rearrange the words, and explain what the new book or movie is about. | 3 |
523 | Hard to Overstate | Propose ways to make modern life just a little bit harder than it needs to be. | H |
462 | Cast Away | Come up with a terrible bit of miscasting in a movie or TV show, past or present, real or imagined. | H |
439 | No Can Do | Write signs of incompetence. | H |
161 | CAPITOL MISTAKES | Come up with very, very bad advice for first-time visitors to Washington. | H |
118 | WEAK 118 | Take any photo caption or headline appearing anywhere in today's Post and alter its meaning by adding, deleting, or changing one letter. | H |