WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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1106 | Show your resolve | Suggest a New Year's resolution that someone might make 100 or more years in the future. | H |
1103 | Themes good enough for us | Suggest an existing song to be used as the theme for a TV series or program for comic effect. | H |
409 | Nice Job, if You Get It | Take anything that might need its image enhanced and rename it in a way the keeps its essential identity, but makes it seem nicer. | H |
406 | Bum Steerage | Offer some spectacularly bad advice to any of the provided people. | H |
298 | THE RIGHT STUFF | Write a sentence, or phrase, or entire passage, using only your right hand on the keyboard. This means you may use no keys to the left of N, H, Y and 7. | H |
296 | BILL US LATER | Choose among the names of any of the newly elected U.S. senators or representatives and propose a bill they might sponsor. | H |
284 | ASK BACKWARDS MCLXVII | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
266 | DEFINITELY WEIRD | Take any word from the dictionary and redefine it. | H |
259 | SPARE EXCHANGE, BUDDY? | Take any phone number of any business or government office in the Washington area, translate the first two digits into their constituent letters and propose any appropriate one-word exchange. | H H |
256 | THE PYLE INVITATIONAL | Come up with hip, contemporary riddles and answers. The punch line must contain a painful pun. | H |
253 | IT'S A PITY | Enter any of the provided contests. Winners will be judged entirely on the basis of how pitiful an attempt at humor the entry is. | H 2 |
251 | QUOTH THE MAVEN | Take any famous line, change it by one letter only (add, subtract or change a single letter), and reattribute it. | H |
250 | OH, GREAT | Complete the sentence "Wouldn't it be great if . . . | H |
246 | OUR OWN DEVICES | What do these contraptions do? Tell us in 50 words or fewer. | H |
231 | GIVING QUARTER | Suggest a motto for the "tails" side of any of the state-themed quarters. | H |
217 | NO QUESTION ABOUT IT | Come up with truly stupid questions. | H |
213 | A SIN OF THE TIMES | Submit campaign or other political practices that would be illegal and/or unethical. | H |
209 | WE NEED SOME SEASONING | Come up with the first signs of spring in Washington. | H |