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PERMANENT INKSTAIN FOR KAREN LAMBERT



WEEK TITLE SYNOPSIS INK Types
1576 Praise the Lurid! Give us clickbait headlines for mundane stories. 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. 3
1570 The Invitational, Week 52: Replaying Around -- The 2023 retrospective, Part II Enter or reenter our Week 26-50. H H 4
1569 Look Back in Inker -- Our 2023 retrospective, Part 1 Enter or reenter our Week 1-25 contests. W H
1564 "Air" "Quotes" A new forefinger contest H H H 3
1561 Let It Be a Lesson to Us Tell us some things to be learned from Costco, the bathroom, TV shows, etc. H
1559 As the Word Turns 'Discover' new words by snaking through this random grid 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 H H H
1543 F Things Up Neologisms by adding Fs or changing letters to F H
1542 Your (B)ad Here Tweak an ad slogan to use it for another product H H 4
1541 Wrong enough for ya? Fake facts about the weather H
1538 Rhymes Against Humanity Write a four-line poem about people in the news, using either of two poetic forms H
1536 Colt Following Now that we have the winner and punners-up of our venerable foal-name contest, it's time for 'grandfoals'. H 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. H H
1530 Mess With Our Heads Reinterpret any headline by adding a 'bank head'. 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 2
1526 Poke Us Till We Giggle Write a "poke", or a joke recast as a rhyming poem H
1523 Where in Hell ...? Name a "circle" for some "evil", plus a suitable punishment H H H
1522 Questionable Journalism Find a sentence published in the next week and tell us what question it could answer H
1520 Nextra! Nextra! Read All About it. Predict the big news events of 2023 H H H 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. H
1513 You're such a card Come up with a greeting card rhyme for an un-greeting-card occasion. W
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. L H H 4
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 4
1509 MASH MASH: combine 2 one-word movies Combine two single-word movie titles to make a new movie and describe it. H H H 2
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 H H
1507 All over the map! Choose one of the contiguous 48 U.S. states or D.C. Then write a funny slogan for that state by “traveling a route” from that state into several others. Use the first letters of the states in your route as the first letters of the words in your slogan. H H H
1506 Let's go magnet-fishing with new words From the provided list, write a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer. H
1505 Munici-pals Choose any two or more real U.S. or Canadian towns — they need to show up on a Google search — and come up with a joint endeavor they would undertake. H H H
1504 All set — anagram all 100 Scrabble tiles Write a Scrabblegram — an anagram of all 100 tiles in an English-language Scrabble set (your choice for the two blanks). Any punctuation is fine. L H H
1502 It's Hi-time for Limerixicon XIX Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any word, name or term beginning with “hi-. H H 3
1500 These go to 15 Make up a word or phrase whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 15 (no blanks!) and define it. L H H H H
1498 V for Verses -- misuse a word in a poem Write a short (eight lines or fewer), humorous poem that uses one or more words in other than their actual meanings. H
1497 The if-word Give us a "what if" scenario and its humorous result H H
1496 Same Difference -- compare two items on this list Tell us humorously how any two (or more) items on the provided list are alike or different, or linked in some other way. H H H H
1493 Frankly speaking with feghoots Tell a feghoot -- a mini-story (a ridiculous one is fine) that ends in a groaner pun on a familiar expression, title, line from a song, etc. H 2
1492 Set us right -- conservative humor Send us conservative-leaning humor in a Q&A joke format or a knock-knock joke. H H H H H
1491 The add biz Choose any word, name or phrase beginning with A throough E, then add any single letter of the alphabet to it -- one or more times -- and define the result or show how it would be used. H H H H
1489 Let's movie things around Rearrange the words of a movie title to create a new movie, then describe it H
1487 Colt following -- now it's the grandfoals Breed" any of the "foal" names provided in today's results (including the intro) and give the "grandfoal" a name that reflects both names. H H
1486 No can do: Signs of incompetence Give us a clue that someone was incompetent in a given field. H H 2
1485 Switchcraft -- transpose two letters in a word Switch the positions of two letters within a word, name, title or phrase, then describe the result. H
1484 Two ways about it What's something (printable) you could say in two -- or more -- of the provided situations. H 2
1481 Mess with our heads Reinterpret some actual headline (or a major part of it), from any publication, print or online. H
1477 Thinking outside the big box Send us a humorous "review" for any of the provided items listed on walmart.com<\em>. H 3