WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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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 |
1279 | Just do it -- the 'real' way | List some "accurate" directions for using some product or completing some task. | H |
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 |
1158 | What have we here? | Tell us what one or more of these objects really are. | H |
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). | W |
1091 | Good idea! or not. | Come up with a good idea and, through a small change in wording, a bad idea. | 3 |
1088 | Ask backwards with our answers, your questions | Supply the questions to as many of the 16 supplied answers as you like. | H |
1060 | Picture this | Write a caption, or captions, for one or more of the provided cartoons. | H |
1019 | What a turnoff | Tell us some creative things that children and families could do during Screen-Free Week. | 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. | 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. | H |
809 | Unkindest Cutlines | Supply cutlines, or captions, for any of these newspaper photos. | H |
652 | Ask Backward | You are on "Jeopardy!" Above are the answers. You supply the questions. | H |
551 | Lost in Translation | Find us some comical translations-and-back using Google translator. Feed some passage of English text into the tool--25 words max--and ask it to translate it into one of the five languages offered; then copy the result back into the tool and ask it to translate that back to English. | H |