| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1640/122 | Colt Fusion | Our 'grandfoal' contest | H H |
| 1638/120 | Pun for the Roses | It's our annual horse 'breeding' wordplay contest. | H |
| 1619/101 | A So-So Contest | Give us jokes that are so [something] that [something]. | W H H |
| 1617/99 | Mess With Our Heads | Look at a headline and see a funnier meaning. | H |
| 1611/93 | Ask Backwards XLIII | We give you the 'answers'; you tell us the questions. | H |
| 1601/83 | Stop, Hey, What's That Sound? | Tell us what these noise-words mean. | H H |
| 1594/76 | So Good! So Bad! So Ugly! | We bring back a classic contest | H H |
| 1592/74 | It's Parody Time | Write a funny song about ... anything you like! | H |
| 1591/73 | Our Typo Humor | More fun with headlines. | H |
| 1590/72 | All You Need Is Ink | Take a line from a Beatles song and rhyme it with your own. | H |
| 1588/70 | Colt Fusion | Because of our generosity and guilt, you get a full hundred foal names to 'breed' for 'grandfoals' | H H |
| 1586/68 | Pun for the Roses | Our annual crazy-popular horse 'breeding' wordplay contest. | H |
| 1576/58 | Praise the Lurid! | Give us clickbait headlines for mundane stories. | H H |
| 1573/55 | 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 |
| 1570/52 | The Invitational, Week 52: Replaying Around -- The 2023 retrospective, Part II | Enter or reenter our Week 26-50. | H H 4 |
| 1569/51 | Look Back in Inker -- Our 2023 retrospective, Part 1 | Enter or reenter our Week 1-25 contests. | W H |
| 1564/46 | "Air" "Quotes" | A new forefinger contest | H H H 3 |
| 1561/43 | Let It Be a Lesson to Us | Tell us some things to be learned from Costco, the bathroom, TV shows, etc. | H |
| 1559/41 | As the Word Turns | 'Discover' new words by snaking through this random grid | H |
| 1550/32 | Holy Moly, It's Limerixicon XX | Write a limerick featuring a word beginning "ho-". | H |
| 1549/31 | The Tile Invitational X | It's our 10th running of this coin-a-word game. | H H H H |
| 1543/25 | F Things Up | Neologisms by adding Fs or changing letters to F | H |
| 1542/24 | Your (B)ad Here | Tweak an ad slogan to use it for another product | H H 4 |
| 1541/23 | Wrong enough for ya? | Fake facts about the weather | H |
| 1538/20 | Rhymes Against Humanity | Write a four-line poem about people in the news, using either of two poetic forms | H |
| 1536/18 | Colt Following | Now that we have the winner and punners-up of our venerable foal-name contest, it's time for 'grandfoals'. | H H |
| 1534/16 | Pun for the Roses | Our renowned horse name 'breeding' contest returns! | H |
| 1533/15 | The Very Last 'Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions' | Tell us a stupid question followed by a funny retort. | H H |
| 1530/12 | Mess With Our Heads | Reinterpret any headline by adding a 'bank head'. | H |
| 1528/10 | 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 |
| 1526/8 | Poke Us Till We Giggle | Write a "poke", or a joke recast as a rhyming poem | H |
| 1523/5 | Where in Hell ...? | Name a "circle" for some "evil", plus a suitable punishment | H H H |
| 1522/4 | Questionable Journalism | Find a sentence published in the next week and tell us what question it could answer | H |
| 1520/2 | 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 |