| WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1537 | A Crooning Achievement | Write a lyric for a politician to sing. | P |
| 1395 | Add nauseam: A plus-one contest | Add a "plus one" to some familiar numerical grouping, true or fictional | H |
| 1393 | Second chance (acned conches?) for anagrams | Describe any of the provided anagram businesses, or offer its slogan. | H |
| 779 | Gripe for the Picking | Rant about any issue that wouldn't make your top 100 for airing in The Post. | P |
| 760 | Whacksy Buildup | Describe any of these Googlewhacks in the form of a question, "Jeopardy"-style. | 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. | H |
| 583 | Mess With Our Heads | Take any headline, verbatim, from the Washington Post or its Web site from today through next Sunday, and reinterpret it by writing either a "bank headline"--or subtitle--or the first sentence of an article that changes the original meaning entirely. | H H |
| 581 | Evil Things in Store | Think of evil or just plain stupid practices that the staff of a retail or other establishment might perpetrate. | H |
| 564 | Redefine Print | Redefine any word from the dictionary. | 2 |
| 552 | What Kind of Foal Am I? | Breed any two of the horses on a list of those qualifying for this year's Triple Crown races, and tell us a good name for their foal. Maximum 18 characters, including spaces. | H |
| 484 | Manufracturing | Take any product and explain how it would be different if it were designed by a different existing company. | H |
| 479 | Invest Case Scenario | Suggest new companies in which it might be unwise to invest. | H |
| 453 | Haiku 2 U2 | Write a haiku summarizing the career of any American politician, living or dead. A haiku is generally defined as a nonrhyming poem, of three lines. The first and last lines are five syllables; the middle line is seven. | H |
| 411 | X's and Oaths | Take any oath, pledge, declaration or slogan and update it. | H |
| 410 | Ask Backwards | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 371 | Ask Backward | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are the answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 367 | Future Schlock | Come up with a line that will surely not appear in an upcoming work. | 2 |
| 353 | Patently Silly | What do these devices do? | U |
| 316 | CALLING THE TOON | What are these things? | H |
| 308 | GIVE US NO MO | Write an updated version of those old children's selecting rhymes. Your rhyme must (1) rhyme and (2) conform, at least loosely, to a point-and-shoot cadence that permits the elimination of one item from a group. | H |
| 293 | THE VERSE OF AMERICA | Take any story in today's Washington Post and create a poem or song by stringing together various phrases from that story. Each phrase must be a least two words long. | H |
| 261 | WHAT IF YOU GIVE IT A TRY II | Alter some crucial moment in history, and then tell us the likely outcome. | E |
| 235 | ROOTS | Make up historical explanations--they should be vaguely plausible--for the etymology of any term you wish. The term should be the punch line. | H |
| 218 | CALLING THE TOON | Who are these people? What are they doing? | 3 |
| 214 | ASK BACKWARDS IX | You are on "Jeopardy!" These are your answers. What are the questions? | H |
| 206 | HYPHEN THE TERRIBLE II | Create a new word by combining the first half of any hyphenated word in today's newspaper with the second half of any other hyphenated word elsewhere in the same story, and supply a definition. | H |
| 204 | DOUBLE EXPRESSO | Take any well-known colorful expression, and modernize it. | W |
| 195 | THE MARTHIAN CHRONICLES | Come up with items for Martha Stewart's December-January calendar of projects. | H |
| 192 | HILL'S BILLS | Come up with bills any of the new members of Congress might jointly sponsor. | H H |