WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | INK Types |
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803 | The Pepys Show | Write a humorous diary or journal entry for someone, famous or not, for any point in history. | H |
788 | The Back End of a Bulwer | Give us a comically terrible ending of a novel. | I |
786 | Top of the Staake | So get your thoughts provoked for No. Umpteen of our cartoon caption contest. | H |
784 | Words to The Wiseacres | Give us some proverbs for 21st-century life. | 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 |
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 H 2 |
774 | Tour De Forks | Supply a name for a restaurant dish named after someone (or some product or organization) and describe it. | H |
773 | Always Looking for Sects | Coin a religion or belief system and tell us its basic tenet or distinguishing characteristic. | 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 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. | 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 |