WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	INK Types
1614	The Tile Invitational XI	Make up new words with the letters we give you	T M H
1613	What's the Worst That Could Happen?	After the election, we mean. And be funny about it.	W H H H
1612	Asterisky Business	Put words in Horace's mouth: Tell us a joke that not everyone will get.	T H
1611	Ask Backwards XLIII	We give you the 'answers'; you tell us the questions.	T H
1610	Wryku	Write a haiku about something in the news.	T H H
1609	Saved!	Tell us funny ways to be thrifty in these parlous times	T H
1608	Stick It	An election bumper sticker contest	T M H
1607	Funny, Init?	Compare two people who have the same initials.	M H H 4
1606	The Cold New Trend	What would be an even sillier new fad than decorator refrigerator shelves?	H H H
1605	Get Thee to a Punnery	Change a quote slightly and credit it to someone else.	H H H 4
1603	Hu-boy, It's Limerixicon XXI	Write a limerick featuring a word beginning 'hu' or 'hy'.	T H
1602	We Got Game	Tell us some funny ways to 'improve' a sport.	H H H
1601	Stop, Hey, What's That Sound?	Tell us what these noise-words mean.	H H H H H
1599	Picture This	It's our caption contest.	H H H
1598	Same Difference	We give you a random list of things, and you tell us how any two are alike or different.	4
1597	The Farce of July	Give us new ways to celebrate Independence Day.	3
1596	History for the tl;dr Crowd	Sum up an event for the 21st-century reader in a rhyming couplet.	H H H H H H
1595	Ebenezer Screwed	Write us a funny comic strip on a certain sensitive subject	H
1594	So Good! So Bad! So Ugly!	We bring back a classic contest	H H H A
1593	Qwerty Lashes	Write us something funny from just a few letters of the keyboard.	4
1591	Our Typo Humor	More fun with headlines.	W H H H 3
1590	All You Need Is Ink	Take a line from a Beatles song and rhyme it with your own.	H
1589	Wait Wait Right Here!	Write some 'Not My Job' questions a la the NPR quiz show.	H H H
1588	Colt Fusion	Because of our munificense and guilt, you get a full hundred foal names to 'breed' for 'grandfoals'	M H
1587	The Trite Stuff	Replace some well-worn phrases with better ones.	M H H H H H H
1586	Pun for the Roses	Our annual crazy-popular horse 'breeding' wordplay contest.	H
1585	Bring Up the Rear	Move the last letter of a word to the front.	H H
1584	Seeds of Change	Make an anagram of a name-brand product.	M H H H
1582	You're Workin' on a Chain, Gang	A classic connection game.	H 3
1581	SOTU-Speak	Use words from Biden's State of the Union speech to write some lines for another oration.	H
1580	Hi, Anxiety!	Tell us some funny ways to stress yourself out.	T H H
1579	Captions Courageous	Write a description for any of six photos	H H H H 3
1578	The Pepys Show	Give us a diary entry from anyone in history.	H
1577	Why the #$%#$% Not?	The Washington Post is looking for some bold ideas -- Let's show it some!	H
1576	Praise the Lurid!	Give us clickbait headlines for mundane stories.	H H
1575	The Ughscars and the Phewlitzers	Give us an idea for a bad book or movie.	H H H
1574	Oh, Grandpa, Stop!	Turn a 'dad joke' into a less-tame 'grandpa joke'	H 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.	H
1572	S Is for Smartass	Presenting the Devil's Alphabet Soup	H
1570	The Invitational, Week 52: Replaying Around -- The 2023 retrospective, Part II	Enter or reenter our Week 26-50.	T H
1569	Look Back in Inker -- Our 2023 retrospective, Part 1	Enter or reenter our Week 1-25 contests.	H H
1568	Nextra! Nextra!	Tell us the funny news events from 2024	H 2
1567	Picture This	A caption contest	H H H
1566	Well, the Good News Is ...	Put a positive spin on a bad-news headline	T M H
1565	Oh, For Namesakes!	Compare two people who share part of a name.	H H 2
1564	"Air" "Quotes"	A new forefinger contest	W H H
1563	The Perfect(ly Ridiculous) Gift	Offer up some products for people-who-have-everything catalogs.	H H H
1562	Rhyme and Rhyme Again	Write a funny "monorhyme", a poem whose lines all rhyme on the same sound.	T H H
1560	The 'Hole Story	Write us a funny 'Am I The Asshole' question	T H
1559	As the Word Turns	'Discover' new words by snaking through this random grid	H H
1557	Tailgating On the Highway	Pair a Dylan line with your own rhyming one	M H
1556	Cross Us Up	Mirror a phrase, more or less	H
1555	Do You Have to Spell It Out for Us?	Give us "backronyms"	H H
1554	U (Heart) TFG's BFFs	Reach out to beleaguered Trump supporters and bathe them in the warmth of your love, to help bind the nation’s wounds	H H H H
1553	Doody and Muldoon	Write a Muldoon, a four-line poem that features at least two body parts and a place name, and at least one rhyme.	H
1552	A Mirthday Party	Link two people who share a birthday	H H H H H H 4
1551	Ask Backwards XLII	We give the answers. You give the questions.	T H H H 3
1550	Holy Moly, It's Limerixicon XX	Write a limerick featuring a word beginning "ho-".	M H
1546	Put It in Bee-verse	Write a funny poem using a spelling bee word	M
1545	Their Base Behavior	Tell humorously how some business or organization could alter its product or message to appeal to Trump’s cult.	T H H H H H H H
1544	Same Difference	Tell us humorously how items on the list are alike, different, or otherwise linked.	H H H H
1543	F Things Up	Neologisms by adding Fs or changing letters to F	M H
1542	Your (B)ad Here	Tweak an ad slogan to use it for another product	H H
1541	Wrong enough for ya?	Fake facts about the weather	H H
1540	Picture This	It's caption contest time, with eight motley pictures to choose from.	W H H H H
1539	Get Real, Reel	Name a scene in a movie, a TV show, or literature, and tell us how it might be revised (perhaps less satisfyingly but far more realistically)	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
1535	The Poops Diorama	Make some funny art with toilet paper and send us a photo.	W I H 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 H H
1532	We Bee Back With Neologisms	Make up words using letter sets from the NYT Spelling Bee game	H H 2
1531	The Worst New Contest Ever	Describe something that would be worse than a second Trump presidency	M H H
1530	Mess With Our Heads	Reinterpret any headline by adding a 'bank head'.	H H H H
1529	Hello, Dall-E!	Our new contest partners you and a machine.	3
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	M H H
1527	Film Flim-Flam	Use all the letters in a movie title to make a new movie	H
1525	Arty Har-har	Give us an idea for a humorously audacious modern art work	T H
1524	Picture This	A caption contest	T H 4
1523	Where in Hell ...?	Name a "circle" for some "evil", plus a suitable punishment	H H H H
1522	Questionable Journalism	Find a sentence published in the next week and tell us what question it could answer	H H H
1521	Send Us the Bill	Our "Joint Legislation" contest	H H
1520	Nextra! Nextra!	Read All About it. Predict the big news events of 2023	M H H 2
1518	The final Post edition	Some all-time favorite entries	H
1513	You're such a card	Come up with a greeting card rhyme for an un-greeting-card occasion.	T H H
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.	T M H H H
1510	Only U (or A, E, I or O)	Write a humorous univocalic poem — one that uses only one of the vowels A, E, I, O or U	H
1509	MASH MASH: combine 2 one-word movies	Combine two single-word movie titles to make a new movie and describe it.	T
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
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.	T 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.	H H 3
1502	It's Hi-time for Limerixicon XIX	Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any word, name or term beginning with “hi-.	M
1501	Try a little 'kindness'	Tell about an “act of kindness” that you or someone else does that, well, won’t be appreciated.	H
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.	T H H
1499	Picture This, a cartoon caption contest	Write a caption, either descriptive or in dialogue, for any of the provided cartoons.	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 H
1497	The if-word	Give us a "what if" scenario and its humorous result	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.	W H H H
1494	Put it in bee-verse	Write a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer that includes at least one of the words used in Round 4 or later of this year's bee; OR: write a joke in Q&A form that uses at least one of the words.	H H 2
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.	M H
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
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.	M H
1490	It's parody time -- sing the news	Write a satiric song about anything in the news these days.	M H
1489	Let's movie things around	Rearrange the words of a movie title to create a new movie, then describe it	T H
1488	Let's recycle!	Come up with humorous uses for ANY product or combination of products listed at RepurposeMaterials.com, including but no restricted to the provided list.	M H H H 3
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 H H
1486	No can do: Signs of incompetence	Give us a clue that someone was incompetent in a given field.	M H
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 3
1484	Two ways about it	What's something (printable) you could say in two -- or more -- of the provided situations.	4
1483	Pun for the Roses -- our famous foal-'breeding' contest	Breed" any two of the provided names and name the "foal". As in actual thoroughbred racing, a name may not exceed 18 characters including spaces.	H
1482	The Tile Invitational IX	Rearrange the letters of any of the letter sets provided to create a new term, then define or describe; you may use all seven letters, but also just six or five.	H
1481	Mess with our heads	Reinterpret some actual headline (or a major part of it), from any publication, print or online.	H H
1480	Oh, you don't really mean that	Define" inaccurately and humorously any of the provided words.	M H
1477	Thinking outside the big box	Send us a humorous "review" for any of the provided items listed on walmart.com<\em>.	H
1476	Matchless humor -- show us some Googlenopes	Find us a Googlenope -- a phrase in quotation marks that generates the message "It looks like there aren't many matches for your search" -- or a Googleyup, a phrase that surprisingly does have hits.	H H H 3
1475	Hail to the Commanders!	Write a song (set to any familiar tune) or shouted cheer for the Washington Commanders. OR: Write for any other D.C. institution, e.g., the Metro, the Senate, the National Zoo, The Washington Post.	H
1474	Hyphen the Terrible	Combine one side of a hyphenated word or phrase with one side of another such term -- either side can be the end or the beginning -- to create a new term. AND! Both halves of the term must come from the same issue of a newspaper (The Post or another one) or published the same day on its website, Feb. 3 through 14.	H H H H
1472	Phony money -- tell us fake financial trivia	Tell us some fake trivia about money or the financial system.	T
1471	Tour de Fours XVIII: B-I-D-E with us	Coin a word or phrase containing the letters B-I-D-E -- consecutively but in any order, and describe it.	H H
1470	Your add here -- a prefix feast	Add a "prefix" -- by which we mean at least one syllable of any kind (but not multiple words) -- to the beginning of any word in well-known phrase, name, book title, etc., and describe the result.	T H
1469	Post Mortems 2021, our obit poems	Write a poem of no longer than eight lines (plus an optional title) about someone who died in 2021.	T H
1468	The Year in Redo, Part 2	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1440 through 1464.	H H
1467	The Year in Redo, Part 1	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1413 through 1439, except for Weeks 1414-1416.	L H
1466	Be invitationally correct	Give us a funny "correction" that a newspaper or magazine might offer.	4
1465	Put your '22 cents in for our annual pre-timeline	Name some humorous news event to happen in 2022.	H H
1462	Time for a new career?	Tell what would happen if any two people switched professions or other roles.	H
1461	It's the eponymy, stupid	Create an eponym -- a word based on the name of a well-known person -- define it, and perhaps use it in a humorous sentence.	H
1460	These new words are on fleek	From the provided list, write a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer.	H H
1458	Do adjust your set: TV anagrams+	Use all the letters of any TV show (including streamed ones), past or present, to create new show; or it can be an episode of the original.	H H
1457	What is Ask Backwards XL?	You are on "Jeopardy!"; various answers are provided. You provide the questions.	T H H
1456	The hunting of the snark	Ask an insulting rhetorical question in the form (or a variation) of "Is that your _______ or _______?	H
1455	Good idea! Or not.	Cite a "good idea' and, with a small change of wording, a "bad idea".	H H
1454	Punku 3 -- haiku with a pun	Create a haiku containing a pun or similar wordplay.	T H
1453	Haven't read it -- mis-subtitle a book	Choose any book title listed on Amazon and misinterpret it by adding a subtitle.	H
1451	Could have said it worse ourselves	Give us a humorously bad "first draft" of a famous line from history, literature or entertainment.	T H
1450	Putting the 'anoid' in humanoid	Humorously describe some aspect of our current society as a space alien and/or future anthropologist might interpret it.	H
1449	Let's have a get-together	Begin with a real name; append to it a word, name or expression so that they overlap; and finally define or "quote" the resulting phrase or name.	H H H
1448	Hear, hear -- it's Limerixicon XVIII	Supply a humerous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any word, name or term beginning with "he-".	H H
1447	Give it to us straight	Take any sentence from an article or ad in any publication (print or online) dated July 29 through Aug. 9, 2021, and intepret it in “plain English".	M H 3
1446	Clue us in -- and we spill the beans	Write novel clues for as many as 25 answers in the provided grid, across or down, first substituting your own letters for any covered ones.	H
1443	The letters of the laws	Propose some law -- it doesn't have to be a serious issue -- and give it a name and an acronym,	W H
1442	Same difference, or missing links	Choose any two (or more) items from the utterly random list above and say how they're different, alike or otherwise linked.	M H H 4
1441	\'Rick rolling: songs as limericks	Sum up or otherwise reflect a well-known song as a limerick.	T H
1439	Vowel Movement: The Musical	Choose a song title; remove all the vowels; then add back as many vowels as you like to create a new title, and describe the song. You might also provide a line or two of lyrics.	W H
1438	Nothing but the untruth: Fake trivia about the law	Give us some bogus trivia about the law -- lawyers, courts, judges, police, odd laws, terminology, what have you.	H
1437	One-offs: A 'typo' neologism contest	You're a fat-fingered typist: Change a word, name or phrase by either adding or substituting one letter that's adjacent (in any direction) to the original one on a regular QWERTY keyboard, or by doubling the correct letter.	H
1436	Haven't seen it: Fun with movie titles	Misinterpret a movie title in a supposed plot description.	H H
1435	Who needs Peeps when we have CICADAS?	Create a witty visual artwork that includes at least one real cicada or cicada casing (the body-shaped shell from which the insect emerges) and send us a photo of it.	W H H H
1434	Go ahead, mate my bay: Grandfoals	Breed" any two of this week's inking foal names and name the "grandfoal.	H H
1433	Questionable Journalism	Choose any sentence (not a headline!) in an article or ad in The Washington Post or another publication dated April 22 through May 3, and write a question it might humorously answer.	L H H
1431	The On-Our-Way-Back Machine	Tell us how (in some funny way) things will be different as we emerge from the pandemic.	H
1430	Back to racing speed with the 'foals'	Breed" any two of the provided names of the 100 horses nominated for the 2021 Triple Crown races and name the "foal" to humorously play off both parents' names.	H H
1429	Forsoothsayers	Quote a line or so from any Shakespeare work, and exemplify it with a contemporary quote, real or imagined.	H
1428	The Tile Invitational VIII	Create a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or phrase) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it.	H
1427	Rocky of ages, or Badenov for you?	State any historical event -- right up to 2021 -- in the provided "A, or B" format.	H H H
1426	Mess with our (or others') heads	Reinterpret an actual headline (or a major part of it) by adding a bank head, or subtitle.	M H
1425	Picture this -- a caption contest	Write a caption, either descriptive or in dialogue, for any of the provided cartoons.	H H
1424	We Bee back -- a neologism contest	From any of the 30 provided Spelling Bee letter sets, coin a new term or phrase and describe it humorously. You must use the first letter in the set (anywhere in the word) plus any or all of the others, as often as you like.	H
1423	Muddled heads: Headline anagrams	Choose a headline (or part of a headline) in any print or online publication dated Feb. 11-22 and rearrange all its letters into an anagram.	H H 2
1422	The Collaboratory	Think of a book, movie or song title. Then pair its creator, star, singer, etc., with an unrelated "collaborator" to produce a wordplay on the title.	H
1421	Alternaugural Address '21	Write a humorous passage -- a "quote", an observation, a joke, a dialogue, a poem, anything -- using only words that appear in Biden's inaugural address.	L H H
1419	Send us the bill -- '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
1418	Tour de Fours XVII: Just Undo It	Coin a word or multi-word term containing the letters U-N-D-O -- consecutive but in any order -- and describe it.	H H
1416	The Year in Redo, Part 2	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1388 through 1412.	H H H
1415	The Year in Redo, Part 1	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1360 through 1387, except for Weeks 1361-1363.	T H H H
1414	Divining comedy: 2021 predictions	Name some humorous news event to happen in 2021.	T H H H 3
1413	We're finna give you some new words	Write a poem of eight lines or fewer featuring one or more of the provided terms. The terms must be used as they're defined in the new m-w.com listing.	P
1412	Jumble bells -- anagram a song line	Rearrange all the letters in a song title, or a line (or more if you dare!) from a song. Optional: Offer a parody of the original tune (or a few lines of it) that refers to the new title.	H
1411	Back end of a Bulwer	Write a humorously awful final sentence or two to an imaginary novel.	M
1410	Legends of the fall -- more fictoids	Tell us some bogus trivia about autumn, or things that happen (or have happened) in autumn.	T 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.	W M H H H
1405	Okay, once more around the track	Breed" any two of the provided foal names that got ink in Week 1400 and name the offspring to reflect both parents' names.	T H
1404	Ask Backwards XXXIX	The answers are provided. You supply the questions.	T H
1403	Who was that masked man?	Current a short listing for a current or past TV show that has a coronavirus story line, or one reflecting some other issue in the news right now.	H
1402	The fourteeners--a neologism contest	Make up a word whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 14 (no blanks!), and define it.	H
1399	The lie-zy days of summer	Tell us some bogus trivia about the summer or things that happen or have happened in the summer.	H H
1398	This is the year that is	Describe the year 2020 in a novel, colorful metaphor or simile. You may also offer an original graphic.	H
1397	Trope springs eternal	Use any of the four provided standard settings -- (a) desert island, (b) bartender at a bar, (c) desert, (d) psychiatrist next to a couch -- and describe a cartoon that includes your choice of characters, along with a caption.	T
1396	Hail Limerixicon XVII: Write a limerick featuring a 'ha-' word	Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "ha-".	H
1395	Add nauseam: A plus-one contest	Add a "plus one" to some familiar numerical grouping, true or fictional	M
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.	T M H H
1393	Second chance (acned conches?) for anagrams	Describe any of the provided anagram businesses, or offer its slogan.	H
1392	Picture this -- caption these cartoons	Write a caption, either descriptive or in dialogue, for any of the provided Bob Staake cartoons.	H
1391	No-covid zone -- a neologism contest	Coin a new word or phrase that lacks C, O, V, I and D and describe it.	H
1390	'Same difference' for a new time	Explain how any two of the items in the provided list are similar, different or otherwise linked.	H H H
1388	Turning around a business	Create a business, product, organization or similar entity that contains a word, name or phrase and its anagram, and describe it.	W H H
1384	Of course there are stupid questions!	Give us stupid questions, especially ones reflecting Our Current Situation.	W
1383	Questionable Journalism	Choose any sentence (not a headline) in an article or ad in The Washington Post or another publication dated May 7 through May 18, and write a question it might humorously answer.	H 2
1382	For us, it's still Post Time	Breed" any two names from the provided list of 100 of the 145 previous Kentucky Derby winners, from 1875 to 2019, and name the foal to humorously reflect the parents' names.	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 H
1380	Both sides now	Delete one or more letters (in a row) from a word or brief phrase to find another word, and define it.	W H
1379	Your wish: A pun -- a star	Tell a joke, in your choice of form, whose punchline is a pun on a song title or lyric.	H H
1377	Make your own March Madness	Think of some sport, game, art project or other activity that you can conjure up using various items that you might find around the house.	T H H 3
1376	Get thee to a funnery	Add a character (or more) to a Shakespeare play and supply some resulting dialogue.	H
1375	Mess With Our Heads	Reinterpret an actual headline (or a major part of it) by adding a bank head, or subtitle.	T
1374	Versus' verses in a rap battle	Write a mini-"rap" between any two characters, real or fictional, as in the provided ERB example.	H H
1373	Prime time for some Amazon reviews	Send us a humorous "review" for any of the provided Amazon-listed items.	M H H H
1372	Trash talking, 1880-style	Write a quatrain or -- heck -- two of Balliol rhyme about some person.	T H
1371	The Tile Invitational VII	Create a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or phrase) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it.	T M
1370	What's in a name?	Write something about a well-known person, real or fictional, using only the letters in that person's name.	H
1369	Shoot us some oops	Tell us a concise original joke that revolves around a typo or misheard word.	T
1368	Picture This -- cartoon captions	Supply a caption for one or more of the provided cartoons.	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
1364	Clue us in	Supply clever, funny clues for as many as 25 of the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid.	T H H
1363	The Year in Redo, Part 2	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1334 through Week 1359.	T
1362	The Year in Redo, Part 1	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1307 through 1333, except for Weeks 1309-1311.	W
1361	2020 vision -- the year in preview	Name some humorous news event to happen in 2020.	H
1360	The lyin' in winter: Seasonal fictoids	Give us some untrue trivia about winter or things that occur in winter.	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
1358	What to your wondering eyes will appear?	Write a humorous passage -- a "quote", an observation, a joke, a dialogue, a poem, anything -- using only words that appear in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (a.k.a "The Night Before Christmas").	H H
1356	Ask Backwards 38	Sixteen "answers" are provided. Tell us the questions.	H
1355	The inside word	Highlight part of a word, name or short phrase in "air quotes" to give the word a new meaning or description.	T 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.	T H 4 2
1351	What concept will you be for Halloween?	Give us a creative, clever idea for a timely Halloween costume (for one or more people) or an idea for a party or other activity. You may even send us a photo of an actual new costume you've created this year.	T
1349	Revise and extend these remarks	Go to congress.gov/congressional-record and click on the PDF for any day's Congressional Record. Choose any sentence (or substantial part of one) and write a question that it could answer.	H H H H
1348	Same difference	Explain humorously how any two or more of the provided items are alike, different or otherwise connected.	M H
1347	Reologisms	Write a clever, funny definition for any of the provided Loser-concocted words and phrases, and/or show they'd be used.	H H
1346	AZ if -- balancing acts	Think of a new word or two-word phrase that begins and ends -- either way -- with one of the provided "alphabetically balanced" pairs.	H H
1345	The confaketionary -- food fictoids	Tell us some comically false "fact" about food, drink or dining.	H 3
1342	MRGRS: Mash 2 abbrevs.	Combine two acronyms or other abbreviations, whether of entities or expressions, into one big one, and describe it, offer a slogan for the new organization, etc.	H H H
1341	Portmanteautapping from E to R	Coin a portmanteau word beginning with E through R, in which the words overlap by at least two letters, and describe it.	T H
1340	Not-ables -- slightly alter a famous name	Slightly alter the name (make sure the original is obvious) of a famous personage -- past or present, real or fictional -- and describe the resulting nonpersonage, or offer a quote from that person, or both.	H
1338	Picture This -- cartoon captions	Supply a caption for one or more of the provided cartoons.	H
1337	Lidder me this: anagram riddles	Write a Q&A joke (or an A followed by a Q, if you're into "Jeopardy!") in which the punchline contains an anagram or one or more relevant words or names.	H H
1336	Two ways about it	What's something (printable) you could say in two -- or more -- of the provided situations.	H 2
1335	Put it in bee-verse! Or . . .	Write a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer that includes at least one of the provided words, used in Round 9 or later of this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee; OR: write a joke in Q&A form that uses at least one of the words.	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 H H H H
1331	Paste Imperfect	Choose a headline or sentence from The Post or another publication, print or online, dated May 9-20, 2019. Then change that headline or other text by: A. Deleting up to 40 consecutive characters from it (put brackets around the deleted text); B. Adding up to 40 consecutive characters from the same article or ad (write the additions in capital letters); or C. Both A and B, as long as the added text goes at the end of your headline or sentence.	H 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 H
1328	Hooked on 'classic': a do-over	Summarize a book or play by any author, or retell a scene (or even a moment) from one, in the style of some other person.	P H
1327	Mess with our (or anyone's) heads	Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline (or a big part of a headline) by writing a bank head, or subtitle.	H 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.	T
1324	Chapter and worse	Tell or describe a Bible story, or another classical or folk tale, very briefly (75 words would be lengthy) in the voice of a particular author or other person.	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
1322	Back to the drawing board	Come up with an idea for an invention that still needs a bug ironed out.	H 4
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.	T H 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.	H
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 H 4
1317	Punku 2: Haiku with puns	Create a haiku containing a pun or similar wordplay.	M H H
1316	Lies, damn lies, with statistics	Tell us some bogus trivia using "statistics" or some bogus quantitative meaure.	H H 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.	T 4
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	T H H
1313	Dead Letters -- our obit poem contest	Write a poem of no longer than eight lines about someone who died in 2018.	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 H
1310	The Year in Redo, Part 2	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1282 through Week 1306.	M H
1309	The Year in Redo, Part 1	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1255 through Week 1281.	M H
1307	One-for-one for all	Replace one letter in an existing word, name or multi-word phrase with one different letter (in the same place in the word) and define or describe the result.	H
1305	Hits and Googles	Find us either a Googlenope -- a phrase in quotation marks that generates no previous hits -- or a Googleyup, a phrase that surprisingly does have hits.	H
1304	All the muse that's fit to print	Present a "what if" scenario and explain its effect.	H
1303	Neologisms to di- for	Replace a digraph in an existing word or phrase with another digraph to make a new term.	T H H
1301	Tell us a Fib(onacci)	Write a humorous poem of 20 syllables divided among six lines like this: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. And a least two -- any two -- of the lines must rhyme.	H
1300	Botch office sensations	Add "13" to an existing movie title, and some humorous trouble to the plot.	M H H
1299	OK, hivemind! A contest with new Scrabble words	Choose any two of the words in the provided list as the beginning and end of a humorous word chain of 6 to 14 words or phrases.	W 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
1296	A, we're Adorbs: New-word poems	Use one or more of these words new to M-W.com in a humorous poem of eight lines max.	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.	M H
1291	Film flam -- movie anagrams	Rearrange the letters of a title of a movie or play to make a new title, then describe the new work.	H
1290	Bobbing for Witte words	Come up with both an object/situation and a neologism for it.	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 H H H
1285	That is so wrong!	Supply a trivia question along with both the correct answer and a cleverly "wrong" guess.	M H
1282	Picture This	Write a caption for one or more of the provided pictures.	H 2
1281	We only have (googly) eyes for you	Send us a photo of something that you have made funny by pasting googly eyes on it; funny titles and captions are optional.	H H 3
1280	A la'ugh' a minute with 'air quotes'	Highlight part of a word, name or short phrase in "air quotes" to give it a new meaning or description.	T M H H H H H
1279	Just do it -- the 'real' way	List some "accurate" directions for using some product or completing some task.	H H H H
1278	Colt following: The 'grandfoals'	Breed" any two of the 68 foal names that got ink this week, and name the offspring to reflect both parents' names, in the style of today's inking entries.	M H
1277	Come into Beeing with neologisms	From any of the 15 provided Spelling Bee letter sets, coin a new term of one or two words and define it humorously. You may also supply an especially clever or funny definition of a real term.	T H
1276	What 4? A limerick contest	Use a limerick using one of the provided lines as Line 5.	M
1274	Heading for a foal -- our horse name 'breeding' contest	Your job is to "breed" any two names of the 360 horses nominated for this year's Triple Crown races and name the "foal" to reflect both names.	H
1272	The hex files: creative curses	Come up with a creative curse.	H
1271	Yodel Doyle's praises with a D-O-Y-L-E neologism	Coin a new word or phrase that contains the letters D, O, Y, L and E.	H H 3
1270	The Style Invitational turns 5 x 5	Write a witty poem, on any subject, in any of these forms: A. Five lines of five syllables each B. Five lines of five words each C. Five lines of iambic pentameter	I H
1269	Mess with our (or other) heads	Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in The Post (print or online) or another publication and dated March 1-12 by writing a bank head.	H
1268	Playing pinocchio	Tell us some humorously bogus trivia about the news media or the publishing or broadcasting industries.	T H
1267	Jingle bungle	Suggest an ill-advised spokesman (dead or alive, or fictional), along with a humorously noooo slogan or jingle.	H
1266	The Tile Invitational V	Create a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or phrase) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it.	2
1265	Parody for the course	Write a song relating to a class or course of instruction, or to school in general.	M
1264	A cry for Yelp: 'Review' any place	Write a humorous review, positive or negative, of anyplace (real of fictional) one might visit.	H 2
1263	Playing the short game	Using the three-letter Olympic national abbreviations and/or the abbreviation for any college, tell what would happen if one abbreviated team played another.	H
1262	Clue us in -- a backward crossword	Supply one or more creative clues for the provided filled-in crossword grid -- as many as 25 clues in all.	T H H
1261	Post mortems -- our annual obit poem contest	Write a humorous poem of no longer than eight lines about someone who died in 2017.	H
1260	What lies (are) ahead for 2018	Jokingly predict some news event to happen in 2018.	T H
1259	Beat the banned with euphemisms	Come up with creative euphemisms for the provided words, or for other words that might offend someone or other.	H H H H
1258	The year in redo, Part 2	Enter (or reenter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1230 through Week 1254.	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 H
1256	Picture this -- a caption contest	Provide a funny caption for any of the provided cartoons.	M H
1254	Inkorporation--a change-one-letter contest	Change the name of a present or past business, store or agency (not just a product) by adding one letter, deleting one letter, transposing two letters or substituting one letter for another.	M
1253	Fashion x fiction: More fake trivia	Tell us some totally bogus trivia about clothing or fashion.	H
1252	It's a med, med, med, med world	Invent a clever name for a new medical product, and specify the condition it would treat.	H H H 2
1251	Thanking outside the box	Tell us something to be thankful for.	H
1249	Ask Backwards 36	Choose any of the 15 provided items and follow it with a question that it could humorously answer.	M
1248	C'mon, fess up!	Send us a brief "confession" -- there will be categories for true and just-kidding.	T H H
1247	Script tease	Offer a quote from a script whose title you've given a different plot.	H
1246	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 Sept. 21-Oct. 2, and pair it with a question it might answer.	H H
1245	Call us reprehensible . . .	Complain in a humorously missing-the-point way about something that has appeared in The Washington Post (in print or online) recently, or in another publication.	H H
1244	Primed for product reviews	Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon.	M H H H
1242	Generation Yux	Give us a "then/now" joke.	H H
1241	Less taste, more fill-in	Give us a novel clue for any word or phrase in which the remaining letters in the provided crossword puzzle fit, across or down.	H H
1239	MASH 3	Combine two movie titles and describe the result.	H H
1237	Our alliteracy campaign	Rewrite an existing headline from any publication, print or online — about something in the news from July 20 to 31, by using alliteration.	H H
1236	Portmanteaux faux	Explain--inaccurately but amusingly--how a real word is a combination of two or more words, with an illustrative sentence, as in the provided examples, or some other funny way.	H H 2
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
1233	Not	The Loser Community gets a week off (actually two) from writing contest entries and will have to find something else to do during staff meetings, sermons, romantic breakups, etc.	H H
1231	TankaWanka 3: Haiku Plus Tu	Write a TankaWanka about something that's been in the news lately. The poem must consist of five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables in that order. And at least two of the lines must rhyme.	H
1230	What in creation . . . ?	Supply a brief monologue or dialogue about a Creator's specifications or planning for some living being.	M
1229	Gorey bits from A to Z	Send us one of more edgy rhyming alphabet-primer couplets.	T H H H
1227	Celebrate ortho-diversity!	Name and describe a new life form -- and no letter in the term may be used twice.	H H H H H H
1226	Colt following: The 'grandfoals'	Breed" any two of the 61 foal names that got ink this week, and name the offspring to reflect both parents names.	M H
1224	We beg you to differ	Explain how any two (or more) items in the provided list are the same or different, or otherwise connected.	M
1223	Post again out to mislead public!	Write a humorously sensationalistic, misleading headline on an otherwise mundane article or ad published in The Post or elsewhere from April 13 to April 24.	H H
1222	Foaling around	Breed" any two of the provided racehorses nominated for this year's Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont; and name the foal to reflect both of them.	H
1221	Who's kidding whom?	Take two people from history, past or present, and tell what their child would be like	H H
1220	O pedantry, O pedantry	Give us some humorous pedantry.	W H H
1219	Cast your Bred upon us	Write a Lik the Bred verse about someone in the news lately.	M
1218	Mess with our -- or anyone else's -- heads	Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in the Post (print or online or another publication dated March 9-20) by writing a bankhead, or subtitle.	H
1217	Mergers you wrote: Combine two businesses with puns	Give a clever name for a combination of two or more businesses.	M H
1216	As the word turns	Create a word or multi-word term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition.	H
1215	A so-so contest (How so-so is it?)	Write a humorous exaggeration in the form "x is so y that . . .	H H
1213	Punku	Write a haiku that incorporates a pun.	H
1211	The best tweets in history	Write a stupidly disparaging tweet (140 characters or fewer, including spaces) about some laudable figure of past or present, true or fictional.	H H 3
1209	Invented facts: A fictoid contest	Tell us a humorously untrue account of how a product or invention came to be, or got its name.	H H
1208	A RIP-roaring year: Obit poems	Write a humorous poem of no longer than eight lines about someone who died in 2016.	M H H
1207	Clue us in -- a reverse crossword	Supply clever, funny clues to up to 25 of the 72 words and multi-word terms in the provided grid.	H
1206	Do-over the do-over -- enter any of the year's contests	Enter (or re-enter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1149 to 1202, except for Week 1152, last year's do-over.	T H H H
1205	Could we just have a do-over? Yes, we could.	Enter (or re-enter) any Style Invitational contest from Week 1149 to 1201, except for Week 1152, last year's do-over.	T H
1204	Well, at least . . .	Note some good news for the coming year to comfort -- or "comfort" -- those who are depressed about the change of presidential administration.	W H
1203	You've got the powers	Tell us what you would do if you had one or more of the six magical powers provided.	H H
1201	Tour de Fours XIII: What's there to NOVE?	Coin a word or multi-word term that contains the letter block N-O-V-E.	L
1200	The definitive dozen	Supply a word, name or multi-word term along with a wry definition or description; together, the term and description must total exactly 12 words.	T H H H H H 2
1199	We want some bad choices	Offer one or more funny Questions for Terrible People, as shown.	H
1198	Give it to us straight	Take any sentence from an article or ad in any publication dated Oct. 20 to Oct. 31 — or from an online article dated within that period — and translate it into “plain English".	W 3
1197	Picture This -- It's a Bob Staake caption contest	Write a caption for any of the cartoons provided.	T H H
1196	Hyphen the Terrible	Combine either half of a hyphenated word or compound term with either half of another such term to create a new hyphenated term, and describe the result humorously.	H H H
1194	Nyetymologies: fake word origins	Provide a humorously untrue explanation for the derivation of a word.	H
1193	Poedtry	Write a Poed, which consists of four lines: The first line contains six one-syllable words. The second line contains three two-syllable words. The third line contains two three-syllable words. The fourth line contains one six-syllable word (or a name totaling six syllables. And at least two of the lines must rhyme.	H H
1192	Ask Backwards	The 15 provided phrases above are the answers. You provide the questions to as many as you’d like (up to 25 entries total).	T M 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 H
1190	You're workin' on a chain, gang	Create a chain of no more than 15 proper nouns — names of people (real or fictional), products, places, etc. — including one title of a work — in which each name relates somehow to the previous one.	L
1189	Gee, it's Limerixicon XIII!	Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "ge".	H H
1188	Just short words, one more time	Explain some concept or philosophy entirely in words of one syllable.	H H
1187	Just drop it, okay?	Drop the last letter from an existing word, phrase or name and define the result.	H
1185	The Rorschach of the crowd	Interpret one of more of the provided genuine inkblots. You may look at them upside down or sideways.	H
1183	C'mon, be honest with us	Write something in roughly the form "If X were more honest, (then) Y.	M H H H
1177	The ballad box	Write a song related to this year's elections, set to a familiar tune.	T
1175	Good luck with 13	Make up a word whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 13, and define it.	H H
1174	Colt following -- It's time for the grandfoals	Breed" any two of the 57 foal names that got ink this week and name the offspring to reflect both parents' names.	T
1173	Tinker with the recipe	Slightly change the name of a food or brand of food (or something else in the food industry) and describe it, or write a slogan, jingle, etc.	H
1172	Pieces of 'Pie'	Write a short passage -- an observation, a joke, a dialogue, a poem, anything -- using only words that appear in the song "American Pie".	H
1171	What's my (next) line?	Take a line from any song and pair it with your own second line to make a humorous rhyming couplet; the second line should match the rhythm of the first, rather than the second line of the song itself.	H
1170	Derby or not Derby	Breed" any two of the provided racehorses nominated for this year's Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont; and name the foal to reflect both names.	H
1169	Be caustic by acrostic	Review or otherwise describe a movie, book, play or TV show (or Internet equivalent) with words whose first letters spell out the name of the work.	H 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).	M H
1167	So what's to liken?	Take any two items from the provided list and explain how they're similar or different, or connect them some other way.	H H H H
1166	Questionable journalism	Take a sentence (or most of a sentence) that appears in text (not a headline) in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com dated March 10-21 and make up a question that the sentence could answer	T P
1165	B all you can B	Change a word, phrase or name by adding one or more B's, and/or by replacing one or more letters with B's, and define your new term.	H H
1164	'Wait Wait' for us	Compose a multiple-choice question about a Ridiculous but True fact a la the NPR show 'Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me.'	H H H 4
1163	Put it in reverse	Spell a word, name or phrase backward and define the result in a way that relates to the original.	H H 3
1162	An 8-year Re-Onion	Write a fictional Onion-type headline.	T H
1161	Give us four Pinocchios	Tell us some false "facts" about politicians, present or past.	H
1160	A remeaning task	Redefine an existing word or two-word term beginning with P through Z.	H
1159	It's all in the game	Come up with a funny/ridiculous board-type game and describe it.	M H H
1158	What have we here?	Tell us what one or more of these objects really are.	H H
1157	Clue us in -- a backward crossword	Supply clever, funny clues to up to 25 of the words and multi-word terms in the provided grid.	T H H
1155	Vowel movement	Choose a title of a book, movie, play or TV show; drop all the vowels (including Y when it's used as a vowel); then add your choice of vowels -- as many as you like -- to create a new work; and describe it.	M I H
1153	Be three-paired	Choose two or more entities represented by a single three-letter combination from IAA through LZZ, found at the provided link, and say how they are alike or different or have some connection.	T H
1152	Oops? You do it again.	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 1098 through Week 1148, except for Week 1101, last year's do-over.	H H H
1151	To [a glass], snarkly	Write a short, snarky (but witty) note to one of the provided glassbowls.	H
1150	A deviant character	Change the name of person or animal -- real or fictional -- by adding or subtracting one letter; substituting one letter for another; or switching the positions of two nearby letters, and describing the results.	H H
1149	Gestures of depreciation	Suggest ways to celebrate National Love Your Lawyer Day -- or a made-up "holiday" celebrating some other profession.	H 3
1147	It's E-Z find-a-word -- yours	Create a word or multi-word term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition.	T H H 3
1146	Stick it to us with a magnet	Suggest a new Style Invitational honorable-mention magnet.	H 3
1145	A DICEy situation	Coin a word or multi-word term that contains the letter block D-I-C-E.	H H
1144	Someone else's business	Name a real brand, along with something else it would be a better name for.	H
1143	Ask Backwards	Provided are 15 answers, separated by asterisks. You supply the questions.	H H H
1142	Two-faced tweets	Combine two well-known names into a Twitter handle, and write a tweet (no more than 140 characters and spaces) that that portmanteau person might write.	T H
1141	Mess with our heads	Reinterpret (or comment wryly on) a headline appearing in the Post (print or online) Sept. 17-28 by writing a bankhead, or subtitle.	M
1140	You're giving us a bad name	Cite a REAL brand name, past or present, note its original use, and then say what sort of product, organization, etc., that name would be bad for.	T H
1138	Show us your touché	Offer an elegantly snide (and original) insult of anyone living or dead.	T H H H 4
1137	Be a published author!	Give us a spicy title for a boring book, real or imagined.	H H
1136	Gaah! It's Limerixicon XII	Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "ga-".	T 4
1135	The meter's running	Suggest actions in daily life that should require a time limit -- maximum or minimum -- and come with an appropriate penalty for running over (or under).	H H
1134	The 'Sty'le Invitational Red'ux'	Put quotation marks around part of a word, name or phrase and define the result.	4
1133	Are 'hew ready? A contest for clerihews	A clerihew is a humorous four-line rhyming poem about a person whose name is mentioned in the first line; in fact, the name must be at the end of that line (or constitute the whole line) so that it has to rhyme with something. The rhyme structure (and we don't want "lazy" rhymes) is AABB: the first line rhymes with the second, the third with the fourth.	M H H
1132	You and what army? Military fictoids	Give us some comically bogus trivia about the military, past or present, ours or theirs.	H H H
1131	One man's trash	Suggest a humorous way to reuse one or more of the items listed above -- or anything else advertised on RepurposedMaterialsinc.com.	H H H H
1130	Yux Redux: Play on a foreign phrase	Make a word play on a foreign phrase or term (or English phrase using foreign words) and describe it.	H
1128	Drone for a loop	Give us some novel uses for a CICADA micro-drone, assuming that anyone can get one, and that it can have a micro-camera, micro-grips, etc.	H H H
1127	From the creators of . . .	Think up a spinoff of a real TV series, past or present, and furnish a description or bit of dialogue.	H 3
1123	The Tile Invitational III	Give us a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or two words) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided seven-letter sets.	T
1122	Colt Following: 'Grandfoals'	Breed" any two of the 65 foal names that got ink this week and name the offspring to reflect the parents' names.	T H
1121	The an(n)als of civilization	Briefly describe some "bad day in history" -- you may be creative in what you classify as such -- and sum it up with a humorous heading.	H 3
1120	Celebrating our differences	Each of the provided 17 items appeared in a different Style Invitational compare/contrast contest from 1996 to 2014. Explain how any two of them are alike or different or otherwise linked.	H H H
1119	We want hue so bad	Invent a name for a color and describe it.	M H
1118	Breed 'em and weep	Breed any two of the provided 100 racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown events and name the foal the reflect both names.	M H
1116	Punning in place	Create a new term using only the letters in a place name. You don't have to use all the letters, but you can't use a letter more often than it appears in the word.	H
1115	Our type o' headline	Change a headline in an article or ad in the Washington Post and then add a "bank head" or subtitle.	H
1114	Awww together now	Write us a humorous headline -- from the past, present, or future -- that puts an optimistic perspective on some otherwise not-so-promising news.	H H H H H
1113	Our occasional parodies	Write a song celebrating someone's birthday or other personal occasion (rather than, say, a holiday), set to a familiar tune.	T M
1112	Some SHARP words	Coin a word or short term that includes all the letters S, H, A, R, and P.	H H 2
1111	When you riff upon a store	Use a wordplay on a song title as a name or slogan for a real or imagined business.	M H
1110	The mama of all humor	Write a [Someone’s] Mama joke for some well-known figure, past or present, real or fictional.	H H H
1109	Fictoids of Columbia	Tell us some humorously untrue “facts” about Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area.	H H
1108	Hearts of dorkness	Write a humorous Valentine's Day sentiment to someone (or to some organization), either real or fictional -- either from you or from someone else you name. Plus an all-new option: We'll also be willing to run at least one really funny, clever, well-executed graphic.	H H H
1107	Send us the bill	Combine two or more names from the list of members of Congress on this page to "cosponsor" a bill based on their combined last names, and state its purpose.	H
1106	Show your resolve	Suggest a New Year's resolution that someone might make 100 or more years in the future.	H 4
1105	A lit obit of fun	Write a humorous poem of no longer than eight lines about someone who died in 2014.	H H
1104	A pair of threes	Choose two or three entities represented by a single three-letter combination beginning with E- through H- — see the links at bit.ly/abbrevs-e-h — and say how they are alike or different.	H
1102	Let's get Sirius	Suggest a new radio channel and describe it.	H H H
1101	The year in redo	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 1047 through Week 1097, except for Week 1050.	W M H H H
1100	Pun and ink -- the feghoot	Contrive an elaborate scenario that ends in a novel groaner pun on a familiar expression, title, etc.	W
1099	Questionable journalism	Take a sentence (or most of a sentence) that appears in an article in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com dated Nov. 20 through Dec. 1 (in print, any article from those days' papers), and make up a question that the sentence could answer.	H
1098	Prime time for some Amazon reviews	Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon.	T M H H
1097	Futz your sign	Select a line from one of the horoscopes appearing anytime from Nov. 6 through Nov. 17 in the Washington Post's daily Style or on washingtonpost.com and "clarify" it with a translation or extra "information".	T H 4
1096	Picture this	Write a humorous caption for any of the provided Bob Staake cartoons.	H H
1095	TankaWanka!	Write a TankaWanka about something that's been in the news lately. The poem must consist of five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables in that order. And it must include at least one rhyme.	H H
1094	TAXI's the fare for Tour de Fours XI	Coin a word or hyphenated term that contains the letter block T-A-X-I; the letters may be in any order, but there may be no other letters between them.	H H
1093	You're only as rich as you fee	What are some really bad ideas for various businesses to make a few more bucks?	H
1092	Are we having funds yet?	Suggest a humorous fundraising "challenge" for any organization.	H
1091	Good idea! or not.	Come up with a good idea and, through a small change in wording, a bad idea.	M H
1090	Talk undirty to us	Write a humorous poem in any form (no more than eight lines) that includes one or more of the provided words; the word must make sense in the poem in its TRUE meaning.	H
1089	It's E-Z Find-a-Word -- your own!	Create a word or multi-word term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition.	H H
1087	The core ridiculum	Come up with a comical class (any type of school) and provide a course catalog description.	H H
1086	Playing the dozens	1. Start with any 12-letter word, name or multi-word phrase. 2. Add one letter OR drop one letter OR substitute another letter OR switch the position of two letters to create a new term, as in the examples given. 3. Define or describe the result humorously.	M H H H
1085	Eww-venirs: Ideas for gift shops	Suggest a humorous--but NOT horribly tasteless--tchotchke, T-shirt, etc., from a real or imagined gift shop at a particular tourist site.	M
1084	Limerixicon XI: Fi-, fo-, go!	Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "Fl-" through "fo-".	T H
1082	Band on the pun	Alter the name of a music group or performer slightly -- not necessarily by just one letter, but enough so it's obvious what the original is -- and describe it in some way.	H
1079	Little piddle riddle	Ask a question and answer it with a rhyme.	H H
1078	Hyphen the Terrible	Combine one side of any hyphenated word or compound term with one side of another word to make a new hyphenated term, and define it humorously. Both halves must appear in the same issue of The Post or another print newspaper, or in writing published the same day on washingtonpost.com or another online publication.	H H 2
1077	Time marches Swiftly	Give us a novel Tom Swifty, playing on either an adverb or a verb (e.g., "We care about the little people, the BP chairman gushed").	H H
1076	Dactyly fractyly	Send us some double dactyls that conform to Gene Weingarten's rules.	H
1075	Falsity is Job One	Send us some fictoids about cars and trucks and driving and stuff.	M
1073	Bank shots: Mess with (y)our heads	Quote a headline appearing in the Washington Post, washington.com or another publication, print or headline, dated May 22 to June 1, and supply a "bank" headline that either misinterprets it, as in the examples above, or comments wryly on it.	M L H H 2
1070	Colt following -- our grandfoals contest	Breed" any two of the foal names that got ink this week, and name the offspring to reflect the parents' names.	T
1068	An iffy proposition	Suggest some humorous action that you would take if you were in someone's position, more or less in the form "If I were _____ my first act would be _____.	H
1066	It's mating season	Breed" any two from the provided list of 100 of the 3-year-old racehorses nominated for this year's Triple Crown and name the foal to reflect both names.	M H H H
1065	The ands have it	Slightly alter ANY well-known phrase in the form "A-and-B" -- it doesn't have to be Latinate/Anglo-Saxon -- and define it.	H
1064	HistoRebuffs	Alter some moment in history and tell us -- in no more than about 50 words -- the likely outcome.	H H
1063	Same difference	Take any two items from the provided list and explain how they're similar or different.	T M
1062	Scanning the headlines	Write a rhyming poem about something currently in the news.	T
1061	Less taste, more fill-in	Give us a novel clue for any word or phrase in which the remaining letters in the provided crossword puzzle fit, across or down.	H
1060	Picture this	Write a caption, or captions, for one or more of the provided cartoons.	H H
1059	With parens like these . . .	Add some words in parentheses to a well-known song title to make it funnier in some way.	H
1058	Eastwood Ho	Create a good-bad-ugly progression.	M
1057	Sportin' lie	Give us some fake sports trivia.	H
1056	Weather or nuts	Coin a term relating to the weather, climate, etc. -- either literal or figurative -- and define it.	T H
1055	Oh, K!	This week, to commemorate both Kevin Dopart and his 1K ink blots: Change a word, phrase or name by adding one or more K's, and define your new term.	I H
1053	Questionable journalism	Quote an actual sentence, from The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com, or another print or online publication dated between Dec. 26 and Jan. 6, and follow it with a question that the sentence might answer.	T L H
1052	Clue us in	Come up with up to 25 creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms that appear in the provided grid.	M H
1051	Love the tiny tail stain!	Create an anagram -- a text with the letters rearranged -- of any text (except merely someone's name), of any length, referring to something or someone in the news.	W T H H
1050	Just redo it	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 1000 through Week 1046.	H
1049	Be rating	Come up with a new movie rating and describe it.	T H
1047	Bank shots	Quote a headline appearing in The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com or another publication, print or online, dated Nov. 14 to Nov. 25, and supply a humorous "bank" headline that either misinterprets it or comments wryly on it.	T H
1046	Derive us crazy	Offer a bogus but funny explanation of how a particular expression originated.	T P I
1045	Songs for the asking	Take a sentence, phrase or title from a song and provide a funny question it might answer.	H H H
1044	Play it safe	Come up with a comically safety-conscious rule for the workplace or elsewhere.	H 4
1041	What have you got to lose?	Answer a question, real or rhetorical, that appears in a song.	H
1040	IRS my case	Schedule A: Suggest a novel way for the government to determine taxes. Schedule B: Suggest a deduction that you'd like to take, or that some real or fictional person past or present might like to take. Schedule C: Suggest a cause you'd rather check off $3 for.	H
1039	Shookespeare	Combine any of the words in Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy, in any order, to create a humorous sentence or longer passage.	H H 2
1038	It's like this, see	Answer a simple question with a ridiculously argued answer citing various connections and parallels.	H
1037	Outrage us	Find something offensive about an inoffensive name of a product, organization, place, etc.	T H H
1036	Just for liffs	Use a real place name, from anywhere in the world, as a new term.	M
1035	The Empy 500	Explain what news Bob Staake is trying to tell in any of the provided drawings.	H H 3
1034	What's to like?	Supply an original joke of the form "I like my [your choice] the way I like my [something else of your choice]: [some clever, funny parallel].	H H
1033	LimeriXicon	Supply a humorous limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "fa-".	M H
1032	Hid stuff	Explain the symbolism "obviously" evident in any well-known site, artwork, etc., in 75 words or fewer.	2
1031	The 'Sty'le Invitational	Choose any word, name, or short term; emphasize a key, suddenly pertinent part of it with quotation marks; then redefine the word.	M H
1028	Joint Legislation	Combine the names of two or more of the First Congress senators and/or representatives to create "joint legislation".	H H
1027	Built for two	Give humorous related names for any pair of features in a given building, organization, etc.	H
1026	'Might' makes ink	Give us a joke using any of the using any of the provided "you might be" templates.	H H
1025	In so many words	Create an original backronym for a name or other term, especially one that's been in the news lately.	H
1024	Gorey thoughts	Send us some edgy rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. The pairs are AB, CD, EF, GH, IJ, KL, MN, OP, QR, ST, UV, WX, and YZ.	H H
1023	Hai there, Martians!	Write one or more humorous haiku that will greet the Martians or share a little nugget of what life is like on Earth.	H H
1022	What's the diff?	Explain how any two of the provided items are alike or different.	H
1021	'Gram theft	Come up with a term by scrambling any of the letters sets in the provided list, and define it.	T
1020	Colt following	Breed any two of this week's winning foals and name the grandfoal.	H
1019	What a turnoff	Tell us some creative things that children and families could do during Screen-Free Week.	H H H H
1018	Reologisms	Write a clever, funny definition for any of the Loser-concocted neologisms from Week 1014 as well as from Week 1000 that deserve better definitions than their creators offered at the time.	M 4
1017	Vowel play	Write a "univocalic" newspaper headline -- one that uses only one vowel throughout.	H
1016	Foaling around	Breed any two of the horses nominated for this year's Triple Crown races and give the foal a name humorously reflecting the names of the parents.	H
1015	Faux re mi	Give us some humorously false trivia about music or musicians.	M
1014	Join now	Combine the beginning and end, or the beginnings and ends, of any two words in single Washington Post story or ad published March 21 to April 1 into a new word or two-word phrase, and define the result.	4
1013	Har monikers	Write a riddle that uses a pun of a person's name in the answer.	H H
1012	The news at 5	Write a limerick about a recent news event.	W H H
1011	Top these!	Try your hand at any of the contests mentioned in this look back.	H H H H H H H
1010	Picture this	Write a caption for any of the five provided cartoons.	M H H
1009	What's in a name?	Write something about some person, real or fictional, using only the letters in the person's name.	H 2
1008	Switched reels	Re-arrange all the words in the title of a movie, and describe the resulting work.	M
1006	It's a ... a ...	Create a new superhero (or duo) and describe the superpower, or not-very-superpower.	H
1005	Send us the bill	Name a piece of legislation "cosponsored" by two or more of the 98 new House and Senate members provided.	H H
1004	Dead letters	Write a humorous poem about anyone who died in 2012.	H
1003	Just do it	Use a well-known advertising slogan for a different company, organization or product to humorous effect.	H H
1002	Wring out the OED	Make up a false definition for any of the listed OED words.	T
1001	Make us ROFL	Give us a funny, original acronym.	H H H
1000	We now have 4 digits; you now have 7 letters	Choose any word, name or two-word term beginning anywhere from T through Z; then add one letter, drop one letter, substitute one letter for another, or transpose two adjacent letters, and define the result.	H
999	Drectrospective	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 946 through Week 995, except for Week 948.	H H 3
998	Set the law on us	Suggest an odd law for a particular place in the world.	M H
997	Unworthy causes	Name a dubious charity and describe its mission.	H
996	A Life-Time opportunity	Combine two magazines or journals and describe the result, supply a marketing pitch, or suggest a story or two that it might publish.	I
995	Ask backwards	We give you the "answers" and you supply jokes in the form of a question.	M H H H H 3
994	Stick it to us	Suggest a slogan for one of our two new honorable-mention Loser Magnets for 2012-2013.	H
993	Versus, verses	Write a short "rap battle" between any two characters, real or fictional.	M H H
992	Mittsterpiece Theatre	Suppose public-TV shows, past or present, were turned out onto the open market to make a living on commercial TV. Tell us what would happen.	H
991	Tour de Fours IX	Create a new word or two-word term containing the letter block V, O, T, and E and define it.	M
990	Indecent relations	Pair two people, real or fictional, who have the same last name; say how they're alike or different, or something they might do (even in fantasy), as a pair.	H H H H 3
989	On the double	Come up with a double or multiple profession, and explain how each job complements the other(s).	3
988	A faster break	Suggest ways to make sports and other leisure activities more time-efficient or exciting.	M H
987	Bank shots	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 6 through Sept. 17 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle.	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.	H H H H 3
984	Another brilliant contest	Write something whose words begin with consecutive letters of the alphabet.	L H H
983	Limerixicon IX	Supply a humorous limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters "eq-" through "ez-".	M H H
982	The parody line	Set your own, humorous words to the tune of a well-known song--except that you must preserve one of the original lines.	H
981	Feeling testy	Write a question that "ought to" be on a qualifying test for a particular job.	H
980	Def jam	Supply a humorous definition for any of the provided Loser-penned neologisms.	M H
978	A reason to rhyme the news	Write a short verse about something that's been in the news recently.	M
977	Lost in Translation 2.0	Translate a line of text from English into another language using Google Translate; then copy that result and translate it back into English. You may also make intermediate steps into one or more other languages.	W M H
975	Gone mything	Debunk a "Sixth Myth" about one of more of the recent "5 Myths" topics provided.	H H
974	Eat our dust!	Write a limerick humorously describing a book, play, movie, or TV show.	M H H
973	A real triple crown	The horses in this week's list either produced no inking "foals" in Week 965, or ran in the Kentucky Derby but weren't on the initial list. "Breed" any two and name the foal.	W H
972	Trends and neighbors	Choose any two items on the provided list and explain how they are alike or different.	M H H
971	Double booking	Come up with a double book with a humorous connection; the first title must be an actual book, while the other may be your own fictitious title or a second real book.	I H
970	Couple it	Take a line from any well-known poem and pair it with your own second line to make a humorous couplet.	M H
969	Colt following	Breed any two "foals" in today's results, and name the grandfoal.	T
968	Take us for grants	Come up with a proposal to the National Science Foundation or other research-funding organization for a study based on a stupid hypothesis.	H
967	Overlap dance II	Create a phrase that overlaps two terms, each of two words or more, and describe the result.	H
966	Inkremental change	Start with any word or name, and create a series of words that change by one letter at a time, until you come up with a related word or name.	H H 4
965	Foaling around	Breed any two of the horses in this year's Triple Crown races and name their foal.	M
963	The overlap dance	Send us a Before & After "person" whose name combines two people's names, real or fictional (okay, you can use animals' names, too), and describe the person in a funny way.	H H H
962	Questionable journalism	Take any sentence (or a major part of it) that appears in the Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com anytime from now through March 19 and supply a question it could answer.	H H H
961	The end of our rhops	Write a funny passage or headline whose words all have the same number of letters.	H
960	Raving reviews	Send us a creative "review" for any of the provided items that are listed on Amazon.	T H H
959	Out of network	Move a current or former TV program (or type of programming) to a different network and explain what would change.	T P H H
958	All's Weller	Write a "wellerism," a sentence that starts with a quote, often a short proverb, and goes on to include some sort of wordplay on something in the quote.	H H H
957	Fearful Symmetry	Write a clever passage whose successive words are one letter longer until the middle of the passage, and then become one letter shorter.	H H H
955	Twits' twist	Create a phrase by combining a word or phrase with an anagram of that word or phrase, and define or describe it.	T
954	Bring on the 'fight' jokes	Tell us an original joke ending with “And then the fight started.”	H
953	Clue us in	Come up with creative, funny clues for the words and multi-word terms in the crossword puzzle that's already run in The Post.	T H
952	Dead Letters	Write a humorous poem about someone who died in 2011.	P H
951	Say that again	Double a word, or use a word and its homophone, to make a phrase, and define it.	I H H
949	Analogies	Give us an analogy using "a is to b as x is to y."	H H H
948	Look back in Inker	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 891 through 945 (except for Week 896, which was the same contest for the previous year).	H
946	Another round of Bierce	Write a clever definition of a word, name or multi-word term.	H H 2
945	Laugh-baked ideas	Cleverly depict a person, event or phenomenon of the 21st century — real history as well as scenes from movies, books, videos, etc. — using edible materials, and send us a photo of your creation.	W M H 2
944	Uh, yeah, it's just you	Give us one or more "Is it just me" questions.	H H
943	Ask backward XXIX	You are on "Jeopardy!" You supply the questions for as many of the provided answers as you like.	H
942	Singular ideas	Give us an idea for a contest for which there's likely only one good entry.	H
941	They don't say!	Give us a quote that a particular person, present or past, real or fictional, sooo wouldn't have said.	H H
940	Our type o' headline	Change a headline by one letter, or switch two letters, or change spacing or punctuation, in a headline (or most of a headline) appearing on an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Oct. 7 through Oct. 17, and elaborate on it in a "bank" headline (subhead).	W
939	MASH 2: The Retread	Combine two movie titles and describe the result.	P
938	Free and Lear	Write a limerick using the first two lines of any of Edward Lear's 115 limericks plus your own remaining three lines.	I H
937	Staake it to him	Write a caption for any of the five pages or details pictured from some of Bob's more than 50 picture books.	T M H H
936	Hoho contendere	Slightly alter a well-known foreign-language term and define it.	M H
934	Same difference	Explain how any two items in the provided list are similar or different.	H
932	We'll call them your-mama jokes	Tell us an original "your mama" joke.	M H
931	Limerixicon 8	Supply a humorous limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters ea- through -el.	T M H H
930	We WANT stupid complaints!	Complain comically unreasonably about some innocuous thing appearing in the print Post or on washingtonpost.com over the next week or the previous few days.	T
928	Play feature	Use the title of a movie as the answer to a riddle or other question.	T H H
927	Drive-By Shoutings	Write a very short four-line “poem” promoting a product or company, or offering advice to drivers; the poem must rhyme, in ABAB or ABCB rhyme scheme. A fifth, non-rhyming line may state the product name or a conclusion.	M L
926	Outrageous fortunes	Come up with a fortune cookie line that you'd like to see.	H H
925	A remeaning task	Redefine a word in the dictionary beginning with I through O.	M 3
924	Doomed to repeat it	Create "Unreal Facts" about history.	P M H H
923	Chemical Wordfare	Create a new chemical element or other chemical term.	T
922	A Banner Week	Write entirely new, humorous lyrics to the tune of “The Star-Spangled Banner”; they can be on any subject.	M
921	Give Us Willies	Write an original Little Willie poem, perhaps reflecting our current era. This is a venerable four-line genre in which Master W. does some nasty thing and doesn't tend to learn to be a Good Boy by poem's end.	W T H H
920	Sarchiasm	Write an original chiasmus, in which the elements of a phrase are inverted for comedic effect.	H
919	Good Luck With 13	Alter a 13-letter word, phrase or name by one letter (add a letter, drop a letter, switch two letters somewhere in the word, or substitute one letter for another) and describe the result.	H
918	Colt Following	Breed any two "foals" in today's results, or one foal with one of the real horse names used in today's entries--and name the "grandfoal." The name may not exceed 18 characters, including spaces, and your entry shouldn't remotely duplicate any of today's results.	H H
917	Wryku	Write a haiku--a sentiment that can be broken into three lines with exactly five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third--on any subject that's been in the news in the last couple of weeks.	T H
916	Bank shots	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from April 22 through May 2 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle.	T M H H
914	Foaling around	Breed any two of 100 of the almost 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races, and name the foal.	H
913	Bring up the rear	Move the last letter of an existing word or name to the front of the word, and define the new term.	H H
912	Pair-a-phrase	Lift a word that appears inside a longer word; pair it with the original word to create a phrase; and define it.	I H H H
911	Help!	Create a short humorous dialogue -- or a monologue featuring one party -- of a phone call to 911, or a call for help to someone else.	H H
910	Your ad here	Slightly alter an advertising slogan so that someone else could use it.	T H
909	Reprizing	Suggest humorous uses for one or more of the items above, alone or in combination.	W T H H
908	Recast away	Fire an actor or actress from a movie or TV show, past or present, and offer a replacement for the role.	H H H
907	Naming rite	Come up with a creative, somehow fitting sponsor for some public facility or part of one.	I H H H H H 2
906	Your mug here	Give us a new design for the Loser Mug.	H H
905	Anticdotes	Give us an untrue anecdote responding to one of these past Editor's Query topics.	H H
904	We move on back	Move the first letter in a word or name to the end of that word and define the resulting word.	H H H H H H H H H
903	Bill us now	Combine the names of two or more members of Congress as co-sponsors of a bill.	H
902	What's the good news?	Take any sentence, or substantive part of a sentence, or a headline from an article or ad in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com from Jan. 7 to Jan. 18 and make it sound upbeat (or not so bad).	H
901	Dead Letters	Write a humorous poem about someone who died in 2010.	H
900	Dear us!	Submit a "Dear Blank" letter to us instead.	M I H H
899	Clue us in	Send us funny, clever clues for any of the words already in this grid.	W T H H H
898	Pre-current events	Predict some humorous news event that would happen in 2011.	H H 3
897	Catch their drift	Take any sentence from an article or ad in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com from Dec. 3 to Dec. 13 and translate it into "plain English.	M H H H 4
896	Other people's business	Describe what might happen if any of the above institutions (a) were run by an institution of your choice or (b) ran an institution of your choice.	H H H H H
895	Picture this	Supply a caption for any of these cartoons.	M H H
894	Look Back in Inker	Enter any Style Invitational from Week 841 through Week 890 (except for Week 844).	H H H
893	Give us a hint	Write a humorously witty story in 25 words or fewer.	M H H
892	Get a move on	Change the location of something for humorous effect. Provide an explanation if you wish.	I H H
891	Mirror, Mirror	Write a word-palindrome sentence, in which the first and last words are the same; the second and next-to-last, etc.	H H H 4
890	Double-teaming	Combine the names of any two pro sports teams -- even from different sports -- and describe the result.	H H H
889	Tour de Fours VII	Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order -- the letters P, O, L and E.	H 3
888	It's the eponymy, stupid	Coin a word or expression based on the name of a well-known person, define it, and perhaps use it in a sentence	H H H
887	Plus-Fours	Write a limerick whose third or fourth line is one of those listed above.	H
886	Look both ways	Give us a new term that's a palindrome and define it.	M L H H H
885	Mess with our heads	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 10 through Sept. 20 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head.	M H H 2
884	Rekindling the spork	Combine two devices or other products to make a new one.	H H 4
883	Same difference	Choose any two items from the list above and explain why they are alike or are different from each other.	T H H H H 4
882	Limerixicon VII	Supply a humorous limerick prominently featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters dr-.	T
881	What's in a name?	Take the name of a person or institution. Find within it a hidden message.	H H H H H
880	Our greatest hit	Start with a real word or multi-word term or name that begins with Q, R or S; add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter with another, or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word.	H H H
879	Say Venn	Express some sentiment in the form of a Venn diagram.	M H H H H H
878	Safety in blunders	Tell us a way to make the nation more secure.	2
877	Quipped from the headlines	Write a rhyming couplet about some matter in the news.	T L
876	Oilies but goodies	Write lyrics somehow related to the oil spill, set to an existing tune.	T
875	Fail Us	Give us a funny Learn From My Fail-type lesson, 30 words or fewer, true or not, in your own words or attributed to a famous personage.	M
874	Stat Us	Write a funny Facebook status line.	T H 4
873	Back to Square 1A	Replace the shaded letters in this grid with your own letters to come up with a different word or phrase -- either an existing word or one you make up -- and define it humorously.	H
872	Har Monikers	Combine the first parts of each word in a famous person's or character's name -- in order -- and define it or use it in a sentence that somehow refers to its source.	I H
871	Remarquees	Change a movie title by one letter (or number, if the title includes a number) and describe the new film.	H H
870	Let's play Nopardy	Describe any of the above phrases in the form of a question.	T H H
869	Clue us in	Send us funny, clever clues for any of the words already in this grid.	T M H H H H H
868	Count the ways	Give us some musings of a technical wonk.	H H H
867	Back in the saddle	Breed any two of the foals in today's results -- OR one foal with one of the actual horses used in today's entries, and name the grandfoal.	H
866	Natalie Portmanteau	Begin with a real name; append to it a word, name or expression so that they overlap; and finally define (humorously, of course) the resulting phrase.	H
865	No Googlenopes left	Come up with a humorous Googlenope.	H H H H
864	Oonerspisms	Spoonerize a single word or a name by transposing different part of the word (more than two adjacent letters), and define the resultant new term.	T H H
863	It's Post time	Breed any two of 100 of the almost 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races, and name the foal.	H H
862	Be cheerful	Send us a cheer or fight song for any pro sports team or any national team.	H H H
861	It's incumbent upon us	Combine the names of two or more freshman members of Congress to create "joint legislation." This week's pool of legislators includes only those who were elected to their seats before 1994, the first year we ran the freshman contest.	L H H H
860	Ten, Anyone?	Humorously define or describe something or someone in exactly 10 words.	H H H 2
859	Can't goods	Cast a joke in one of the forms listed above.	M H H H
858	Same OED	Make up a false definition for any of the words listed below.	H H
857	All FED Up	Create a brand-new word or phrase that contains a block of three successive letters in the alphabet -- but the series must go backward through the alphabet.	T H H 4
856	Titled Puerility	Here are some untitled book covers. For any of them, tell us a title and synopsis of a book that will never be published.	R H H 2
855	The news could be verse	Sum up an article (or even an ad!) in any Washington Post print or online edition from Feb. 6 through Feb. 15 in verse.	H 3
854	What's not to liken?	Produce one or more similes in any of the following categories.	H H H 4
853	It's easy as DEF	Create a brand-new word or phrase that contains a block of three successive letters in the alphabet; the series must go forward in the alphabet, not backward.	H H H H H
850	Dead letters	Write a humorous poem about someone who died in 2009.	H H H
849	Homonymphomania	Create a new homonym (or homophone) for any existing word and define it.	M H H H H H
848	Up and addin'	Compose a humorous rhopalic sentence (or multiple sentences) in which each word is one letter longer than the previous word.	H H 3
847	Questionable journalism	Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from Dec. 11 through Dec. 21 and come up with a question it might answer.	T H H H H 4
846	Season's gratings	Write a brief (50 words or fewer) holiday letter from a personage from past or present, or from fiction.	H 2
845	Reologisms	Write a description for any of 50 genuine Loser-created neologisms.	M H H H H
844	Healthy choice	Enter any Style Invitational from Week 790 through Week 840, except for Week 793 and Week 798.	H H
843	Prefrains	Provide a sentence or two of lead-in to the first line of a well-known book, poem, or song.	I H
842	Ask backwards	Here are your 12 possible answers. Tell us your joke in the form of a question, please.	T H H H H
841	Food for naught	Alter the name of a food or dish slightly and describe the result.	H H
840	Frittering away the neurons	Give us some more colorfully useful phrases; they don't have to be in the X'ing-the-Y form.	H H
839	Overlap Dance	Overlap two words that share two or more consecutive letters -- anywhere in the word, not just at the beginning or end -- into a single longer word, and define it. AND your portmanteau word must begin with a letter from A through D.	H H H H
837	Strip Search	Combine two comic strips that appear in The Washington Post or at washingtonpost.com/comics and describe the results.	H 2
836	Other People's Business	Describe what might happen if any of the above institutions (a) were run by an institution of your choice or (b) ran an institution of your choice.	H H 4
835	Tour de Fours VI	Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order -- the letters T, H, R, and E.	H H
834	Fractured Compounds	Combine two full words within any single article appearing in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com into a hyphenated compound word, and define or otherwise describe the result.	P H H
833	Our Greatest Hit	Start with a real word or multi-word term or name that begins with M, N, O, or P; add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word.	H H H H 2
832	Clue Us In	You supply one or more clues for the words in a filled-in grid.	H H H H H
831	A Big To-Do	Name a "bucket list" item for a well-known real or fictional character.	H H
830	Mess With Our Heads	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from Aug. 14 through Aug. 24 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle.	H
829	Limerixicon 6	Supply a humorous limerick prominently featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters di-.	M
827	Caller Idiot	Name a real product or company and supply a stupid question or complaint for the consumer hotline person.	H
826	The Inside Word	Take any word -- this may include the name of a person or place -- put a portion of it in quotation marks, and redefine the word.	M
825	Disinstrumentals	Write some words to music that has no words.	L
824	Jestinations	Give us a slogan for any city or town.	T H H
823	Wryku	Compose a humorous (or at least wry or clever) haiku.	T M H
822	For Real Folks	Suggest some attractions for a Festival of Real American Folklife.	H
821	Spit the Difference	How are any of the items on the list above alike or different?	H
820	Be Mister Language Person	Supply a Mister Language Person-type question and answer.	W
819	Art Re-View	These objects are not what they seem to be, at first glance. They are something else entirely. What are they?	H
818	Name the Day	Cite an actual holiday or one of those silly commemorative days, weeks or months for which you can find previous evidence, and supply a snarky description or slogan.	H
817	Flopflip	Reverse the first half and second half of a word or name and define the result.	I H H
816	Googillions	Come up with an original phrase that generates at least 1 million listings on a Google search.	I H H
815	Wittecisms	Create an original word containing -- in any order -- at least a W, an I, two T's and an E.	H H
814	There Will Be Bloodline	Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name their foal.	M H H H
813	Aw, Shocks	Give us a humorous example of the "shocking -- not.	H H H
812	Rx-Related Humor	Offer up some entirely false medical or psychological "fact.	H
811	Rock-Bottom Lines	Tell us a sign that the economy couldn't get worse.	H H
810	What Kind of Foal Am I?	Breed any two of the more than 400 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races and provide an appropriate name for their foal.	T
809	Unkindest Cutlines	Supply cutlines, or captions, for any of these newspaper photos.	H H
808	Take Us At Our Words	Create a humorous poem or other writing using only the words contained in this week's Style Invitational column or results.	H
807	Pretty Graphic Expressions	Express some insight as an equation or other mathematical expression.	M H H H H H
806	DQ Very Much	Give us a phrase or sentence that would nip a potential relationship in the bud (or elsewhere).	H
805	Brand Eccchs	Give us an original name in any of the above categories (not an actual badly named product).	M H H H
804	Our Type o' Joke	Change a headline by one letter, or switch two letters, in a headline (or most of a headline) appearing on an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com between Feb. 14 and 23, and elaborate on it in a "bank" headline (subhead) or a brief first sentence of an article that would run under it.	P H H
803	The Pepys Show	Write a humorous diary or journal entry for someone, famous or not, for any point in history.	H
802	Dreck TV	Suggest a new cable TV channel, with a description or example of its programming.	H
801	Ask Backwards	You are on "Jeopardy!" Here are the answers. You supply one or more of the questions.	W T M H H H
800	Compairison	Briefly define or sum up an existing word or short phrase, then change it very slightly and do the same with the result.	H H H 4
799	Send Us the Bill	Come up with legislation that, given their names, two or more freshman senators or representatives might sponsor together.	H
797	Be Resolute	Make a humorous resolution for some particular person or institution to accomplish next year.	M H
796	Sincerest Flattery	Make up a pun on a familiar name of a real of fictional person and provide a fitting description or quote.	M H H H H
795	Stimulate Us	Tell us what the government ought to be spending our money on.	H H 2
793	Take The Fifth	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 725 through Week 789. Each entry must include the word "five" of "fifth" or something fiveish, or -- depending on your favorite anniversary tradition -- something involving (a) wood or (b) silverware.	I H H H H H
792	Clue Us In	Compile a set of funny alternative clues to a crossword penned by Ace Constructor Paula Gamache.	H H
791	The 1K Club	Supply a chain of 20 names -- they may be names of people, places, organizations, products, etc., but they must be names -- beginning and ending with "Chris Doyle.	M
790	If Only!	Explain how the world would be different had some event not occurred.	H H
789	Doctrine in The House?	State a humorous, original "doctrine" for a person or other entity.	H
788	The Back End of a Bulwer	Give us a comically terrible ending of a novel.	P M
787	Tour de Fours V	Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order -- the letters M, I, N and E.	H 4
786	Top of the Staake	So get your thoughts provoked for No. Umpteen of our cartoon caption contest.	H H
785	The Ballad Box	Write a short, humorous song somehow relating to the presidential campaign, set to a familiar tune.	H
784	Words to The Wiseacres	Give us some proverbs for 21st-century life.	I H H H H
783	The Shill Game	Name a celebrity or fictional character to endorse a real product or company.	I H
782	That's the Ticket!	Explain why any of the items on the list below is qualified to be President of the United States.	H
781	Our Greatest Hit	Start with a word or multi-word term that begins with I, J, K or L; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word.	H H H
780	Location, Location, Location	Say how you know you're in a particular place.	H
778	Tied Games	Combine any two sports or nonathletic activities into a single sport or game.	I H
777	Limerixicon 5	Supply a humorous limerick featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters da-.	H
776	An Act of Sunny Side	Note the silver lining in some otherwise disappointing turn of events.	H H
775	Ad-dition	Combine the beginning and end of any two words appearing in any single advertisement in The Post or on washingtonpost.com, from today through Aug. 4, and then define the new word.	H
774	Tour De Forks	Supply a name for a restaurant dish named after someone (or some product or organization) and describe it.	W T H H
773	Always Looking for Sects	Coin a religion or belief system and tell us its basic tenet or distinguishing characteristic.	T I H H
771	Groaner's Manuals	Come up with a humorous name for a guide or manual for, or a book about, a particular enterprise or organization.	H
770	A Knack for Anachronism	Take a famous historical moment, literary passage, or movie scene and place it in an entirely different age.	H H
769	Splice Work If You Can Get It	Combine two words -- overlapping by at least two letters -- into what's known by polysyllabic types as a portmanteau word, and by the rest of us as mash word, and define it.	M H H
768	The Events Described Herein Are Entirely Fictitious	Come up with fictitious movie trivia.	H H
767	Questionable Journalism	Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in the Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from May 31 through June 9 and come up with a question it might answer.	H H
766	Think to Shudder	Come up with scenarios that are even more awkward (and more imaginative) than the wincers mentioned above.	H H
765	It's Doo-Dah Day	Write humorous lyrics commemorating any of the 50 states of the District, set to any of these Stephen Foster songs.	M I H 2
764	Can You Up Chuck?	Come up with entirely new and funny Chuck Norris Facts.	H H
763	Another Time Around the Track	Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name THEIR foal.	W H H 4
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.	T P L H H
760	Whacksy Buildup	Describe any of these Googlewhacks in the form of a question, "Jeopardy"-style.	W H H
759	What Kind of Foal Am I?	Breed any two of the 100 horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown and provide an appropriate name for their foal.	H H H H
758	Wrong Address	Using any of the words of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in whatever order you like, create your own passage.	H 4
757	Gorey Thoughts From A to Z	Send us some rhyming alphabet-primer couplets.	I H H H
756	Mess With Our Heads	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from March 15 through 24 and reinterpret it by adding a "bank head," or subtitle.	H H H H H H
755	Take Another 'Whack	Send us a phrase of two or more words that produces exactly one Web page on the Google search engine and describe the phrase.	I H H H
753	Hot Off The Riddle	Supply a simple riddle and both the wholesome answer and the (printable) Invitational answer.	T H H
752	The Might-Mates Right	Fill out any of these five "you just might" joke-templates.	W I
751	Strike Gold	Slightly change the name of an existing or former TV show to create a program that can scab the writers' strike.	H
750	Hit Us With Your Best Shot: Photo Contest No. 4	Illustrate, any way you like, any of the provided five captions with your own original photo.	M H H
749	Opus 266, No. 3	Take any common word or two-word term beginning with any letter from A through H and give it a new definition.	H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H 2
748	Dead Letters	Write a humorous poem about a well-known personage who died in 2007.	M H H H H
747	Boeing Us Silly	Suggest some comical ways to improve air travel, either in general or for yourself.	M I
746	We Err The World	Give us a motto or short slogan for any country in the world.	M I H H
745	Hurry Up and Slow Down!	Suggest particular ways that would slow life down, or ways that would speed it up.	H
744	You OED Us One	Make up a humorous and false definition for any of the words listed below.	H H
743	Picture This	Write a caption for any of these Bob Staake cartoons.	T H H H
742	Clue Us In	Give us a whole new set of clues to a crossword puzzle penned by Ace Constructor Paula Gamache.	H H H H H
741	Well, What Do You Know?	Tell us what Major Life Lessons can be derived from any of these venues or situations.	M H H
740	Give Us a Hint	Offer clues in various situations that something isn't working out well.	P H H H H
739	Lies, All Lies	Give us some humorous fictional revelation about a current or past political figure.	H H
737	No River, No Woods	Send us a funny parody of a well-known song, with lyrics that commemorate an occasion other than Christmas or Hanukkah.	N I H
736	So, Should I Drive Like Your Brother?	Ask a car-related question that would make the Car Guys crack up. If you're not into cars, you can also post a question for advice columnist Ask Amy or etiquette columnist Miss Manners.	T
735	Look Back in Inker	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 680 through Week 731.	T H H H H H H H
734	Turnaround Time	Write a rhyming couplet containing two words that are anagrams of each other.	M H
733	Just Drop It, Okay?	Drop the first letter from an actual word or term to make a new word or term, and define it.	H H H
732	The Chain Gang	Supply a chain of 25 names -- they may be names of people, places, organizations, products, etc., but they must be names -- beginning and ending with "George W. Bush.	H H H H
731	Doo Process	Describe for us a wildly inefficient and ridiculous way to produce or prepare an ordinary dish or beverage.	H
730	Time-Wastes For Everyman	Describe activities that make entering The Style Invitational seem like a constructive use of one's time.	H H
729	Otherwordly Visions	Take any sentence in an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Sept. 1 through Sept. 10 and translate it into "plain English.	H H H 2
728	Tour de Fours IV	Coin and define a humorous word that includes -- with no other letters between them, but in any order you like -- the letters S, A, T and R.	H H H
727	We Get a C-Section	Tell us some pros and cons of moving The Style Invitational to the Saturday Style section; or write us up some free promo-ad copying announcing the move.	I H
726	Limerixicon 4	Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary beginning with cl- through co-.	T H
724	Abridged Too Far	Sum up a book, play or movie in a humorous rhyming verse of two to four lines.	T I H H 3
723	Name Your Poison	Create a name and recipe for a cocktail and, if you like, describe when it might be served.	H H H
722	Let's Play Nopardy!	We supply 12 phrases and you get to provide questions they might answer. The phrases were entries in our Week 717 contest, which asked for Googlenopes -- phrases that showed no previous hits from the Google search engine.	I
721	Know Your Market	For any of the provided photos, supply two captions: one that would appeal to The Style Invitational and one that would appeal to the Harrisburg Patriot-News.	T H
720	The Course of Humor Events	Sum up a historical event in a two-line rhyme or other clever and pithy epigram.	H H H H
719	We Har the World	Come up with a creative name for a sports team for a town or city anywhere outside the United States.	H H
718	Put Our Heads Together	Create a new, funny headline from the words of any headlines appearing anywhere in a single day's Washington Post (or on washingtonpost.com)	T H
717	Pitch Us a No-Hitter	Send us some genuine Googlenopes. A Googlenope is a phrase or very brief sentence that, entered into the Google search engine with quotation marks around it, produces no hits.	H H
716	The Hard Spell	Write a humorous poem featuring one of the 75 words we've selected from this year's National Spelling Bee.	M H
715	Your Mug Here	Send us an idea for a slogan for the back of the new Loser T-shirt.	T H 2
714	Amalgamated Steal	Merge two or more company or product names into a new, ORIGINAL company or product.	I H H
713	Painings	Name and interpret any of the provided paintings by Fred Dawson.	M
711	Join Now!	Hyphenate the beginning and end of any two multi-syllabic words appearing anywhere in the April 29 or May 6 Style or Sunday Arts section, and then define the compound.	H H H 4
710	Aw, Shoot	Send us a funny, clever, entirely original photo featuring kitchen utensils and/or small household tools.	T P M H
709	A Return Engagement	Come up with some novel change to the tax code: a tax on something ought to be taxed, a credit for something that should be rewarded, what the $3 should go to instead of presidential campaigns, etc.	H
708	What Kind of Foal Am I?	Breed any two from a list of 100 of the horses eligible for this year's Triple Crown races and provide an appropriate name for their foal.	T H
707	What Would YOU Do?	Use only the words appearing in "The Cat in the Hat" to create your own work of "literature" of no more than 75 words.	I H H H H H H
706	Questionable Journalism	Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from March 24 through April 2 and come up with a question it could answer.	H H
704	Another Game of Tag	Create vanity plates for well-known people, real or fictional.	H H H 4
703	Freak Trade Agreements	Think of one thing to trade for another, and supply a short and funny explanation.	M 2
702	Unreal Facts	Come up with a comically false factoid.	M I H H H H H H
701	Untitlement	Here are the covers for what just might be Bob Staake's next four books. What are they called and what are they about?	T H
699	Our Greatest Hit	Take a word, term or name that begins with E, F, G or H; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word.	P H H H H H
698	Let's Get Personnel	Send us some humorously creative questions that a job interviewer would ask an applicant, or some questions it might be fun to ask the interviewer.	H
697	We Beg You To Differ	Take any two items from the truly random provided list and explain why they are different or why they are similar.	H H H H 2
696	Send Us the Bill	Come up legislation the newly-elected members of Congress might sponsor together.	H H H
695	Dead Letters	Write a poem about someone who died in 2006.	M H H H
694	Hopelessly Ever After	Offer up a gloomy interpretation of any ungloomy piece of writing.	H
693	Everything Being Sequel	Give a brief scenario for the sequel to a well-known movie.	T
692	Reinkernation	Enter any Style Invitational contest from Week 640 through Week 688. Every entry must include the word "three" or "third" or a creative variation.	W H H H H H
691	Haven't Got a Clue	Make all the clues in the provided crossword ooh-clever or at least ah-that's-funny, even the little words.	H H H
690	Funnies: How Time Flies	Pull Billy of "The Family Circus" -- or any of his comic strip neighbors in The Washington Post -- out of his time warp to a different age, era or place, and provide a short storyline or dialogue or caption.	I H H
689	Busted Play	Come up with a more objectionable or stupid toy than a working fart-powered toy rocket.	M H H H H H H
687	Whatever Were They Thinking?	Tell us (A) What someone might say in some situation, and (B) what that person was actually thinking when he said A.	M H H H H
686	It's Baaaaack!	Explain why you, or anyone else in particular, ought to have this fine oil-on-panel by Fred Dawson of Beltsville, or what it might be used for.	H
684	Backtricking	Spell a word backward and define the result, somehow relating the definition to the original word.	L H H H H H
683	What a Piece of Work	String together words in a single scene, or two consecutive scenes, of "Hamlet" to produce one or more funny sentences, preferably unrelated to the original content. The words must appear in the order in which they appear in the play.	L H H H H H H H H H 2
682	Punkin'd!	Send us a funny, clever, entirely original photo featuring one or more pumpkins and/or other vegetables.	H 2
680	Rendered Speechless	Provide dialogue to fill the balloons in any of these cartoons.	2
679	Ask Backwards	Here are the answers. You supply the questions to as many as you dare.	H H
677	The News Gets Verse	Sum up wittily in verse -- but not a limerick -- any article appearing in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from Aug. 28 through Sept. 4.	H H
676	Tour de Fours III	Coin and define a word containing -- with no other letters between them, but in any order you like -- the letters L, E, A and F.	H H H H
675	Cut Us Some Slack	Come up with humorous ways to be lazy.	H
674	Limerixicon 3	Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with ca-.	M L H H H
673	Mess With Our Heads	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Washington Post or on Washingtonpost.com from July 30 through Aug. 7 and reinterpret it by adding either a "bank headline," or subtitle, or the first sentence of an article that might appear under it.	M H H H
672	Just Sign This	Write a funny message for an overhead highway sign.	I H H
671	Join Now!	Hyphenate the beginning and end of any two multi-syllabic words appearing anywhere in the July 16 Style or Sunday Arts section, and then define the compound.	W H H H H H H
670	A Test of Character	Change a word or phrase by only one letter -- substitute one letter for another, add a letter or transpose two letters -- and explain how they are different or similar.	M L H H
668	Cut From the Chase	Write an original John-Bunnell-style wrap-up to a crime story -- or one for a more minor transgression.	H 2
667	Questionable Journalism	Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com anytime from now through June 26 and supply a question it could answer.	W H H H 3
666	Bedevil Us	Give a mini-sermon explaining how some innocuous object or event signals the End of Days.	H
665	Your One-in-a-Million	Coin the millionth word in the English language and define it. The word must end in -ion.	H H H H
663	Worth at Least a Dozen Words	Interpret any of the provided cartoons as you see fit in a caption.	H H
662	How Low Will You Go?	Humiliate yourself for ink, and a stupid prize.	H
661	Name Any Good Movies Lately?	Give us a funny new title for an existing movie.	H
660	Foaling Down: The Next Generation	Breed any two of the winning "offspring" included in this week's results, and name THEIR foal.	H H
659	Tell Us a Fib	Compose a six-line poem with the following number of syllables per line: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. It must be about a person or topic currently in the news, and two successive lines must rhyme.	H H H
658	Not in the Cards	Send us ideas for cards that would likely be ruled "FBN" (Funny, But No) by Hallmark but F&YYY by the Empress.	H H
657	Nuts Fruit	Send in funny (but printable) images of real pieces of fruit.	T H H
654	It Plays to Recycle	Come up with funny ways to recycle things, people, writing (except for your old Invitational entries) or ideas.	I H
653	It's the Eponymy, Stupid	Coin a word or expression based on the name of a well-known person, define it, and perhaps use it in a sentence	P 3
652	Ask Backward	You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. You supply the questions.	H 4
651	Show Us Some Character	Add a character to a book or movie and tell us what happens in it.	H 2
648	Caller IDiot	Name a product or company and supply a stupid question to ask the consumer hotline person.	W
647	Paste Imperfect	Change a headline or sentence that appears in the Post or on washingtonpost.com through Feb. 6 either by deleting up to 40 consecutive characters from it or by adding 40 consecutive characters from the same article or ad.	I H H H H
646	Warped Perspectives	Tell us how two different types of people, animals, organizations, etc., would interpret any of the provided cartoons.	H
645	A Hearty Har Har	Write up a Valentine's sentiment to any personage, or to someone in some generic category.	W T
644	Winter Limp Picks	Brighten up the Winter Olympics with some new events and rules. Alternatively, you can suggest a commercial or ad campaign that could be tied in with the Winter Games or one of its sports.	I H H H
642	It's Open Season	Come up with a brand-new word and its definition. The words must begin with O, P, Q, R or S.	H H H
641	Dreck of All Trades	Come up with a business that combines two or more disparate products or services, and tell us its name and/or something else funny about it.	H H
640	Whassa Motto Wid You?	Give us a slogan or motto for any of the states, the District or the U.S. Territories.	H H
639	What's the Small Idea?	Do you have a senseless idea for improving the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans?	W
638	The Little Bummer Boy	Come up with an idea (and title, if you like) for an original Christmas movie or TV special that provides an antidote to all the sap, and give us a brief synopsis.	H 3
637	Full Steam Ahead	Write a steamy passage of a novel that's ostensibly by some well-known person who isn't a novelist.	L
636	A Song From Tex Arcana	Write a verse of a song about sea urchin sushi or any of the other provided ostensibly unlyrical topics.	H
635	I've Told You a Hundred Times	Enter any Style Invitational from Week 536 to Week 631. Your entry must be substantially different from the original winners.	H
634	Mess With Our Heads	Take any headline, verbatim, appearing anywhere in The Post or on washingtonpost.com from today through next Sunday, and change its meaning by adding either a "bank headline," or subtitle, or the first sentence of an article that might appear under it.	H H
632	Live On, Sweet, Earnest Reader (Inc.)	Give us an original backronym for a company or product. A backronym is a fake etymology that often gets in a little dig at the subject.	L
631	Picture This	What's going on in any of these cartoons?	2
626	Course Light	Come up with a comical college class, along with a description for the course catalog.	H 3

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