WK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK TYPES |
1414 |
Divining comedy: 2021 predictions |
Name some humorous news event to happen in 2021. |
H |
1411 |
Back end of a Bulwer |
Write a humorously awful final sentence or two to an imaginary novel. |
H |
1407 |
Your ad space (or space ad) here |
Come up with an idea for promoting some commercial product or service (a) in space, (b) in a prison, (c) at a kindergarten, (d) by a football team or (e) in the White House. |
H H |
1401 |
How hai? A joke-haiku contest |
Write a joke (roughly) in the "It's so xxx" genre as a haiku. |
H |
1400 |
Back on track with our classic 'foal' contest |
"Breed" any two of the provided names of the 100 horses nominated for the 2020 Triple Crown races and name the "foal" to humorously reflect the parents' names. |
H |
1394 |
Two movies, one line |
Cite a real or coined line, or give a description, that could work for two different movies, plays or TV shows. |
H |
1393 |
Second chance (acned conches?) for anagrams |
Describe any of the provided anagram businesses, or offer its slogan. |
H H |
1381 |
Let's be equinoxious with fictoids about spring |
Tell us some untrue trivia about springtime or things that happen or happened in the spring. |
H |
1375 |
Mess With Our Heads |
Reinterpret an actual headline (or a major part of it) by adding a bank head, or subtitle. |
H |
1373 |
Prime time for some Amazon reviews |
Send us a humorous "review" for any of the provided Amazon-listed items. |
3 |
1369 |
Shoot us some oops |
Tell us a concise original joke that revolves around a typo or misheard word. |
3 |
1367 |
Pick me up at work, okay? |
Give a pickup line from someone in a particular profession, or from a particular person or fictional character. |
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 |
1363 |
The Year in Redo, Part 2 |
Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1334 through Week 1359. |
H H |
1362 |
The Year in Redo, Part 1 |
Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1307 through 1333, except for Weeks 1309-1311. |
M |
1361 |
2020 vision -- the year in preview |
Name some humorous news event to happen in 2020. |
H H H H |
1359 |
Back up in the air (quotes) |
Write a sentence or two and highlight an "air quote" that spans two or more words (and two sentences if you like). |
H |
1356 |
Ask Backwards 38 |
Sixteen "answers" are provided. Tell us the questions. |
H |
1354 |
As the Word turns 5: Taking our vowels |
"Discover" a word or multiword term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition. |
H |
1353 |
What's playing at the retroplex |
Change a movie title to its "opposite" by reversing one or more words; then describe the new movie. |
3 H |
1352 |
Hee-rotica -- Steamy prose for unsteamy life |
Write a short steamy scene (100 words would be considered long) about a non-steamy event. |
H H |
1348 |
Same difference |
Explain humorously how any two or more of the provided items are alike, different or otherwise connected. |
W |
1345 |
The confaketionary -- food fictoids |
Tell us some comically false "fact" about food, drink or dining. |
H |
1336 |
Two ways about it |
What's something (printable) you could say in two -- or more -- of the provided situations. |
H |
1334 |
Mull 'er over: A search for collision |
Combine any two words, names, abbreviations, etc., from anywhere in the redacted Mueller report, in a two-word or hyphenated phrase and define it. |
H |
1329 |
Shakespeare + Thee: Tailgaters |
Select any line from a work by Shakespeare (poetry or prose) and pair it with your own line to create a humorous rhyming couplet. |
H |
1326 |
Foaling around |
"Breed" any two names from the provided list of 100 horses and name the foal to reflect both names. |
H |
1325 |
Stand up and jeer |
Give us some original standup jokes that would have been good at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner. |
H |
1323 |
Selected shortened subjects |
Delete one or more letters from the beginning or end (or both) of a movie title and describe the resulting movie. |
H |
1321 |
Pumping Prime: Amazon reviews |
Send us a humorous "review" (like the provided samples from our earlier contests) for any of the provided items. |
H |
1320 |
Questionable journalism |
Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in the Post or another publication, in print or online, dated Feb. 21-March 4, and pair it with a question it might answer. |
H |
1319 |
The Tile Invitational VI |
Create a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or phrase) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it. |
L |
1318 |
Love the tiny tail stain! |
Create an anagram -- a phrase or sentence with the letters rearranged -- of any text (except merely someone's name), of any length. |
H |
1315 |
Clue us in -- our reverse crossword |
Supply clever, funny clues for as many as 25 of the 74 words and multi-word terms in the provided grid. |
H H |
1314 |
Bill Us Now -- 'joint legislation' |
Combine two or more names from the provided list of the new members of Congress to “co-sponsor” a bill based on their combined last names, and state its purpose |
H H |
1312 |
Neologisms in TOUR de Fours XV |
Coin a word or multi-word term that contains the letter block T-O-U-R and describe it. The letters may be in any order. |
H |
1311 |
Nextra! Nextra! The year in preview |
Name some humorous event to happen in 2019. |
H H |
1309 |
The Year in Redo, Part 1 |
Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1255 through Week 1281. |
H |
1308 |
Picture this -- or these |
This week you have two choices: (1) Write a caption for one or more of these pictures, or (2) explain what is wrong with the picture. You might also combine two pictures into one -- or all four into one. |
H |
1304 |
All the muse that's fit to print |
Present a "what if" scenario and explain its effect. |
H |
1302 |
Ask Backwards 37 |
Fifteen "answers" are provided. Tell us the questions. Do one or more, up to a total of 25 A&Q's. |
H |
1297 |
A different type o' headline contest |
Change a letter in an article or ad in the Post or another publication dated Sept. 13-24 by adding or subtracting one letter; substituting a letter; transposing two letters; or changing spacing or punctuation; and then add a "bank head." |
H |
1295 |
Really, now? A matter of degree. |
Tell us an indication to some problem, followed by an even more dire sign. |
H |
1293 |
Constitutional unconvention |
Humorously translate or explain some part of the U.S. Constitution. |
3 H H |
1289 |
Fake gnus: bogus animal trivia |
Tell us a fictoid -- a humorously false "fact" -- about the nonhuman animal kingdom. |
H |
1288 |
Your results may vary |
Write a funny disclaimer or warning for some product or service. |
H |
1257 |
The year in redo, Part 1 |
Enter (or re-enter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1203 through Week 1229, except for Weeks 1205 and 1206. |
H |
1253 |
Fashion x fiction: More fake trivia |
Tell us some totally bogus trivia about clothing or fashion. |
H |