| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1472 | Phony money -- tell us fake financial trivia | Tell us some fake trivia about money or the financial system. | H |
| 1366 | Tour de Fours XVI -- It's the LIAR club | Coin a word or multi-word term that contains the letter block L-I-A-R and describe it. | H H |
| 1272 | The hex files: creative curses | Come up with a creative curse. | H |
| 1251 | Thanking outside the box | Tell us something to be thankful for. | 4 |
| 1234 | It's incontestable | Four weeks from now, the Empress will have just placed her dainty imperial toe back on our glittering shores. Which means that for the first time since January 2002, almost 800 contests ago—back during the late reign of her predecessor, theCzar—the Invitational will skip two contests in a row. | H |
| 1215 | A so-so contest (How so-so is it?) | Write a humorous exaggeration in the form "x is so y that . . . | L |
| 1202 | Don't be afraid of the dark | Write lyrics to a song that, in some way, express hope. | H |
| 1191 | Mess with our heads | Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in The Post (print or online) and dated Sept. 1-12 by writing a bank head, or subtitle | H |
| 1168 | Asterisky business | Tell us an original joke whose punchline can't be understood without knowledge -- not necessarily scientific -- that most of us don't have (which you'll supply with a concise explanation). | 2 |
| 1136 | Gaah! It's Limerixicon XII | Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "ga-". | H |
| 1132 | You and what army? Military fictoids | Give us some comically bogus trivia about the military, past or present, ours or theirs. | H |
| 1081 | It's the stupidity, stupid | Write us stupid questions that will make us laugh. | H |
| 1041 | What have you got to lose? | Answer a question, real or rhetorical, that appears in a song. | H |
| 986 | Hear here! | Give us a sentence or short dialogue that would be a lot funnier if a word in it were mistaken for a homophone of that word. | L |
| 974 | Eat our dust! | Write a limerick humorously describing a book, play, movie, or TV show. | H |
| 485 | Asterisky Business | Write a joke with a punch line depending on knowledge so esoteric that it requires an asterisked explanation. | H |